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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Tho Hirbco railway line, twenty miles in length, which has been constructed at a cost of £75,000 was formally opened on Thursday. Owing to the wet weather the proceeding's were very brief. The now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is satisfactory to notice the attention that the English papers are giving to matters appertaining to New South Wales, and particularly in regard to railways. The following paragraph is taken from a recent number of Iron, a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting was held here this afternoon in the Acndemy of Music, Mr. J. O. Dodd, the Mayor, in the chair. The first resolution was moved by Mr. J. A. M'Killop,—"That contractors for the second section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →BRISBANE, Thursday.--The first sod of the second section of the Fassifern railway was turned to-day by the Minister for Works. A number of members of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The great iron bridge across the Hawkesbury River is now in a fair way of becoming an accomplished fact, all that is wanted to a beginning being the assent of Mr. Whitton and the Minister to the…
Continued on Trove, page 86 →A largely—attended deputation was infroduced to the Minister for Works yesterday by Mr. Kethel, M.L.A., with the object of pointing out the drawbacks to which shipowners and others are subjected by reason of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An influential deputation waited upon the Minister for Works (Mr. Jacob Garrard) yesterday to bring under his notice the great inconvenience caused to traders through the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Dear Sir,"—Your medicine must be a great success. You can quite understand that I have not much opinion of what are called quack medicines which are generally cure all and worthless, and I1…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A novelty has been executed in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company's Railway Carriage Works, in the form of a railway tricycle, with four seats in front, with springs. &c., like an ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister of Works visited Leichhardt yesterday in company with Messrs. Hawthorne, M.L.A., and several aldermen, to the extension of the tramway to the Public Park, Leichhardt. At Johnstone-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE terrible railway " smash" at Cootamundra is still fresh in memory. An unusually heavy thunder and hail storm has again been the means of disabling the southern railway line near…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An elderly man, name unknown, was knocked down and cut to pieces by the 2 p.m. passenger train from Parramatta to Penrith, on Saturday last, a short distance west of the Westmead platform. Deceased had been walking along…
Continued on Trove, page 68 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of Mr. Cramsie, M.L.A., and Mr. Whitcombe, of Hillston, waited upon the Minister for Works on Monday to request that the proposed railway from Forbes to Wilcannia…
Continued on Trove, page 68 →A recent telegram says that the railway terminus at Braidwood "has just been marked out on the Glen-more-road, between Mr. W. J. Bennison's residence and the town boundary." From this it appears that…
Continued on Trove, page 87 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Nairne and Victorian Border Railway is being rapidly pushed on by the contractors, and it is expected that by the end of the month the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir.--For some years this station has been a byword amongst the residents of this and surrounding localities. It has been subject to alteration, dissections, additions and what not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The municipal council of Ashfield yesterday waited on the Minister for Works and requested that the Government would make a subway at the railway crossing at Ashfield, Mr. Hammond,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The members for Balranald (Messrs. Wilkinson and Cramsie) introduced Mr. Witcomb as a deputation to the Minister of Works, Monday, to request that the proposod railway line from Forbes to Wilcannia…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →1 Arrival of the Mail Train. 2. Locomotive Turn Table. 3. View of Station and Refreshment Rooms. 4. Repairing Shed. 5. Roman Catholic Church. 6. Public School…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →If there was not another slaughter of passengers in the mail train from Victoria on Saturday night, it seems to have been by the unaided action of a single man. On the face of the reports it appears…
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