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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A largely-attended meeting of property-holders was held here last night for the purpose of farther considering the scheme put forward at a recent public meeting by Mr. E. Millen for guaranteeing the Government against loss in…
Continued on Trove, page 1086 →A DEPUTATION of Junee merchants waited on the Minister for Works on the 14th, to point out some disadvantages under which that township laboured owing to the differential railway rates. Mr. Humphrys, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1060 →Late tiles of English newspapers report a terrible railway accident near Monte Carlo, In the Riviere. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of March 10, the train from Mentone came into collision between Roquebrune and Monte Carlo with a…
Continued on Trove, page 1055 →Last week we published the particulars of a serious railway accident at Bowral; and this week we are enabled, by a photograph by Mr. Maguire, of George-street (who happened to be in the neighbourhood with his apparatus at…
Continued on Trove, page 1062 →The Commissioner for Railways has issued a progress report on the transactions of the department during the year 1885. It is not a satisfactory document. For a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 1074 →The following progress report of the Commissioner for Railways for 1885 was laid on the table of the Assembly on Tuesday by the Minister for Public Works, Mr. Lyne:— "In submitting a progress report upon the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1060 →A deputation, introduced by Mr. Tait, M.P., and consisting of Messrs. Chas. R. Styles, J.P., David Broadhead and Jas. A. Gogg, waited on the Minister for Works yesterday to lay before…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation, introduced by Messrs. John Davies, V. Parkes and Bull, Ms.P., waited on the Minister for Works, yesterday, in reference to duplication railway line between Granville…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir.--In your issue of this date is an account of an interview between two representatives of the Railway Employes' Association and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GUNDAGAI, Friday.--The line to Gundagai was not taken over by the Government to-day as was expected, though the contractors, M'Sharry and Co., received official telegram…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHAT might have proved a serious and fatal accidentoccurred on the railway line in the Granville, yard on Thursday night last, Some tracks had just been shunted to another line for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE do not agree with those critics of the Railway Progress Report, for 1885, who see in its figures cause of alarm; we do not even regard those…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The report of the Commissioner of Railways for 1885, tabled in the House on Tuesday night, contains the following unsatisfactory, acknowledgment, of the effects of the existing depression…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →LONDON, May 17.—The newly-formed East and West Coast Railway Company of New Zealand, which intends to connect Christchurch with a port on the West Coast (either Hokitika or…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At half-past 6 o'clock on Tuesday night a fatal accident occurred on the tram line, near the Goaling stage at Raudwick. It appears that a tram made up of two cars, drawn by No. 12 motor, and under the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A public meeting of the inhabitants of Ryde, Gladesville, and Pennant Hills was held in St Anne's Hall, Ryde, on Saturday evening, to protest against the proposed construction of a swing in the Iron Cove bridge. There was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting of the principal residents of Ryde, Gladesville, Field of Mars and Pennant-hills was held in St. Anne's Hall, Ryde, on Saturday to protest against a "swing" being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—I have occasion to travel a good deal between Foveaux-street, Surry Hills, and Regent-street, Redfern. I have also to send many parcels from the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Under ordinary circumstances, Saturday at North Shore is like Tuesday, or Thursday, or any other day. The subdivision of the 168 hours of the week, which marks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the Goulburn railway employes was held last night, when there were present about 200, Mr. Michell in the chair. Mr. Schey was…
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