Railway Employee's Dinner
The committee of the recently-held annual picnic in connection with the traffic department of the G.S.W. and R. Railways dined together at the Royal Exhibition Hotel,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
2,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 134
Railway From Tenterfield to the Border
Tenders were sent in to the Minister for Railways yesterday for the construction of the railway line from Tenterfield to the border line between New South Wales and Queensland…
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John Roberts was charged at Chester with annoying a passenger on the North Western Railway on Sunday, the 20th of November Mr. Carter, accountant, of Chester, stated that while travelling in a train to Flint, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Platforms. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The letter in your issue of to-day, signed " Vigilance," is worthy of consideration by the Minister for Works before deciding positively, because Peakhurst is bound to become an important suburb, and Mort's-road is…
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Mr. Garrard is being urged to give Mr. Robertson, contractor for the Cowra-Blayney railway extension, a bonus for completing his contract at the end of this year, that is six…
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Sir,--If the Hon. the Minister for Works would run an extra tram in the mornings between 8.35 a.m. and 8.55 a.m., passing Glenmore-road at 8.45 a.m., he would confer a great boon…
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A deputation, introduced by Mr. Judd, M.P., and consisting, of Messrs. Stephen, M.P., Fripp, Smithson, and L. Vanhee, waited upon Mr. Gerrard with regard to…
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This morning Messrs. Wheeler and Hughes, aldermen of the Petorsham municipality, waited upon Mr. Garrard, Minister for Works, with regard to kerbing and…
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A deputation waited upon the Minister for Lands this morning in reference to a tramway from Deniliquin to Hay. The deputation consisted of Messrs. Angus…
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A trial of the electric light was made at the Randwick tramway running sheds on Thursday evening in the presence of Messrs. Goodchap, Commissioner for Railways; E. C. Cracknell, Superintendent of…
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An official trial of the electric light at the tramway running sheds, Randwick, took place last evening, in the presence of Mr. C. A. Goodchap, Commissioner of Railways; Mr. E. C. Cracknell, Superintendent of Telegraphs;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Eden- Bega Railway. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Bega
A numerously-attended meeting was held here last night, to support the construction of the Eden-Bega railway line. Mr. Harrison proposed, and Mr. Sharp seconded,—"That in view of the completion of the final survey of the line from…
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It is generally understood that the Government are working the tramways at a loss, and no one will be surprised to read in the next report of the Commissioner for Railways that…
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YOUNG, Thursday.--Mr. G. Fishburn, contractor for the second section of the Murrumburrah-Blayney line, completed plate-laying from Ten-mile to Young…
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MOLONG, Thursday.--At a public meeting held in the School of Arts last night, Mayor Betts presiding, it was proposed by Mr. Stockwell, seconded by Mr. Wyane, and…
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John Roberts was charged at Chester with annoying a passenger on the North Western Railway on Sunday, the 29th of November Mr. Carter, accountant, of Chester, stated that while travelling in a train to Flint, the…
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On the 15th, a deputation consisting, of Mr.Curley (secretary), and members of the executive committee, of the Hunter River Miners Association; and Mr. Turton, of the Waratah Council, was introduced to…
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Mr. Judd, M.P., introduced a deputation from Hurstville, who came to the Minister tor Public Works with the request that the Government would level the Croydon-road, and attend to a…
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A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Singleton and Aldermen Burnett and Wiles, was introduced by Mr. A. J. Gould, M.L.A., to the Minister for Works yesterday that the members of it might ask the Government to provide…
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A deputation consisting of Aldermon Hughes and Wheeler, of Petersham, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, to ask that the Government would provide funds for kerbing and guttering the Great Western-road…
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