The Tramway System
We published yesterday a summary of Mr. Norman Selfe's paper on tramways, read before the Engineering Association on Thursday night, Mr. W. Shellshear presiding. A…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
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Trades Unionism in the Railway Department
On Wednesday last the annual conference of representatives from the various branches of the Victorian Railway Employees' Mutual Association was commenced in Melbourne. In…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →[Break of Gauge on Railway Lines. (From the Age, March 24.)
To overcome the difficult caused by a break of gange on railway lines is a problem the solution of which, has for many years engaged the earnest attention of engineers in various parts of the world, but up to the present time the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Illawarra:. Its Railway and Its Products. Ii
A little way beyond Bulli the road begins to boldly face the steep soclivity" of the celebrated " Bulli Pass." The ascent is in length three miles, about two mailas of which is occupied in reaching the hillside, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An Improved Cable Tramway System. (From the New York Mechanical News.)
The mishap which came very near being a fatal disaster, on the Brooklyn-bridge cable road recently, arising from the imperfect action of the grip, has called attention to the general subject of cable roads, and the necessity of…
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The accident which occurred,onthe railway line, at Lapstone'Hill on Monday proves that there is much to be desired; yet in the. working of rail way brakes. The place where the smash' occurred…
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Nows was received in town on Monday that a railway accident had happened on the Little Zigzag near, Penrith. On inquiry at the Railway Department our reporter was informed that the 32.up train (the…
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0n. Thursday Mr. Collins, M.L.A., had an interview with the Minister of "Works in reference to the. proposed. deviation of the junction, of the Moree railway at Narrabri. Plans and reports were…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Another Railway Smash.. WELLINGTON,' Tuesday,March 23
A. train ran.into a mob.of. bullocks at half—past 5 o'clock this morning, between.Blaynoy; and Millthorpe, and.out one animal to pieces. The engine went clean over it, struck another, and threw two…
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The committee appointed at a public meeting to arrange for a demonstration to celebrate the opening of the North Share caple tramway have succeeded in collecting over £00 for that…
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A public meeting of the residents of Hornsby and district was held at Tebbett's Hotel, Hornsby, at 3 o'clock on Saturday, to arrange certain details in connection with the proposed…
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At the annual meeting of the Victoriau Railway Employees Association held in Melbourne on Thursday last, the annual report was submitted, and was of a most satisfactory character…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Goodchap's Circular. Deputation of Railway and Tramway Employees. the Commissioner's Reply
A deputations, representative of the railway and tramway employees of New south wales interviewed the Commissioner for Railways yesterday morning, with a view to obtain the…
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Sir,--would you kindly insert this letter on the above. Workmen residing on the above, employed in Sydney, are, as regards train accommodation in the mornings, about as well off…
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Another mass meeting of railway employes was hold last evening at the New Masonic Hall, Castlereagh-street, for the purpose of receiving the report from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Association. (To the Editor of the Globe.)
Sir,—Although a reader of the Globe, I had not seen a letter in your Thursday's issue signed "Not One," until it was pointed out to me to-day, and I crave…
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The Minister for Works will shortly he interviewed by Mr. T. Jones, M.P., and others, to ask that an immediate survey be made through Bago Forest, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Employes Association. Deputation to the Commissioner for Railways. He Refuses to Recognise the Organisation
Just before noon to-day, Messrs. Hoyle (chairman), Schey, Robert White, Cameron, Johnson, and Nuttall, representatives of the of the newly formed Railway Employés…
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A deputation from the proposed Railway and Tramways Employees' Association, ecnsisting of Messrs. Hoyle Schey, White, R. Johnson, Cameron, and Nuttall, waited upon Mr. Goodchap, the Commissioner of Railways, yesterday…
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For the purpose of considering Mr. Good- Chap's reply to the deputation of railway and tramway employees with reference to the contemplated association to be formed from these…
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