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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Melbourne, Thursday.--What 13 suspected to have been an attempt to wreck the Adelaide express was discovered near Stawell last night. The gate keeper there found a piece of heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What appears to have been an attempt to throw the Adelaide express train off the line near Glenorchy Station, about 13 miles from Stawell, was discovered last night at about half-past 10 o'clock. A few minutes,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TENDERS will be received at this Office up to 11 a.m. on the dates mentioned hereunder for the public works, &c., specifled in the following sehedule— Nature of Works and Supplices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The train which left Williamstown early this morning met with an accident at the Spencer-street railway station by which several persons were injured. The train consisted of a Phœnix tank engine, and carriages,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Considerable indignation has arisen here owing to the action of the Government in failing to at once accept tenders for the Nyngan and Cobar line of railway. A Government officer has been sent to report on its paying probabilities…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Thursday.--A frightful accident occurred at the Morven railway station yesterday morning, the body of an man decapitated being found across the rails on the west side of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--An unfortunate railway accident occurred at Spencer-street station this morning. When the local train from Williamstown with a very large number…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The ceremony of opening the Cato Bridge was performed this afternoon with much eclat. A large number of townspeople, including many ladies, were present. A procession fully half a mile long was formed and marched to the…
Continued on Trove, page 513 →What appears to have been an attempt to wreck a train was made early yesterday morning on the South Brisbane line, The engine-driver felt the engine jolt heavily over some obstruction, and on stopping the…
Continued on Trove, page 483 →ON the score of retrenchment the railway authorities, during the regime of the late Minister for Works (Mr. Lyne), dispensed with the services of 400 or 500 men who had been employed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE washaway in the Southern Railway at Illabo Creek, near Cootamundra, on Sunday morning is described as very closely resembling in its circumstances the melancholy occurrence at Salt Clay…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The progress towards a settlement of the negotiations for the tramway contract has been such that we think our follow citizens may safely congratulate themselves on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An influential meeting, convened by the Mayor, in response to a requisition, was held in the Town Hall to-night to urge on the Government the necessity of at once proceeding with the construction of a loop line to connect…
Continued on Trove, page 513 →Unprecedentedly heavy rain fell along an extensive tract of the southern line List night, resulting in a very serious wash away about a mile and a-half an the Sydney side of Illabo. The appearance of the line where the mishap has…
Continued on Trove, page 513 →The report of Mr. Mackenzie, civil engineer, employed in the survey of the railway line from Coombing, near Carcoar, to Borenore, is published, and the plans are on view. The engineer adopts the Borenore permanently surveyed line…
Continued on Trove, page 513 →A deputation consisting of Messrs. Carey, Douglas, Jarrett and Henry waited yesterday on the Minister for Works, to ask for the erection of platforms at 78 miles 60 chains, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation from Botany, introduced by Mr. Schey M.P., and accompanied by Mr. J. S. Farnell, M.P., waited yesterday upon Mr. Sutherland, Minister for Works, to draw his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle, Friday.--Anthony Wigley, the overseer of Messrs. Amos Brothers' railway works at the extension near Freshwater Creek,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Mr. Creer, M.P. has received a letter from the Commissioner of Railways slating that the tramway from Newcastle to Plattsburg will be completed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday morning a deputation, consisting of Messrs. Schey and Farnell, Ms.L.A., F. Smith, J. Martin, Frost, and Mucfadgery, Interviewed the Minister for Works (Hon. John Sutherland) on the subject of providing…
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