Duplication of the Southern Railway Line
A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Railway Hotel, Fairfiela, on Wednesday evening last, for the purpose of again taking steps to urge upon the Government the necessity of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
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The Homebush-waratah Railway
The Railway Department has completed arrangements for opening the Homebush-Waratah line of railway as far as the Hawkesbury River by the…
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Fortunately, the "washaway" on the southern railway, at Illabo Creek, was discovered in time; and a repetition of the terrible accident which occurred in the same neighborhood, and from…
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The incapacity of the railway authorities was never more forcibly shown than on Thursday night last. Instead of an extra tram being run from Camden to Campbelltown, the people from…
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A committee meeting of the Brisbane Council was held on the 2nd instant, when Messrs. White (chairman) and London (secretary), of the Brisbane Tramway Company, were present, and…
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Mr. John Dunn, one of the leading storekeepers of Dubbo, was thrown off the platform of the down mail whilst going full speed on Saturday night, near Springwood, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Nyngan-cobar Railway. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Cobar
A large and thoroughly representative meeting of the railway league was held at the Council-chambers to-night —the Mayor (Mr. F. Toy) presiding. The chairman explained the object of the meeting, which was to consider…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Department of Railways, Sydney, 10th March, 1887. Government Railways. Liverpool Races, Thursday, 17th March, 1887
On the above day a special train will leave Sydney for Liverpool, at 11.25 a.m., returning from Liverpool at 5.5 p.m. FARES BY THE SPECIAL TRAIN: 1st class, 4s; 2nd class, 2s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Notices. Department of Railways, Sydney, 11th March, 1887. Government Railways. Blacktown Races. Wednesday, 17th MARCH, 1887
On the above date HOLIDAY EXCURSION TICKETS to BLACKTOWN will be issued at Sydney, Richmond, and all intermediate Stations, available for return until the 18th instant. The 10.0 a.m. train from Sydney will convey Passengers to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Recent Tramway Assault Case. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Referring to Mr. Boles R. Rainsford's letter in to-day's Herald, in which he discribes himself as an eye-witness of what occurred on the night in question, this I most take exception to, as the position he occupied upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Fares. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—We are told that the railway to the Hawkesbury will be opened for traffic on the 5th April, and, through you, I venture to impress upon the authorities that be the necessity of regulating the fares so that an excursion there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed Railway From Eucla to Port Augusta. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
On Saturday morning, Mr. J. R. Browne, Civil Engineer, lodged with the Premier, on bebalf of a syndicate, an application for permission to construct, on the land grant system, a railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Losses on the Tramways. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--In your issue of to-day a paragraph relating to the above points very forcibly to the remedy of a long-felt want in some of oar suburbs, more especially Waverley, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petersham Railway Station. to the Editor of the Daily Telegram
Sir,--The new railway station at Petersham is to be opened on Thursday next. Everybody is surprised that there was no subway in the design at the western end, for a more dangerous…
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COBAR, Saturday.--A meeting of the Railway League was held to-night in the council chambers, Mr. Frederick Toy (Mayor) in the chair. The chairman expressed great regret…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Newtown-road. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--How union longer are we, a patient, suffering people, to be subjected to the intolerable nuisance existing on the Newtown-road? The condition of the road at the present time is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident at Katoomba. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Mount Victoria
A railway accident occurred at Katoomba on Friday night by a goods train getting off the line while shunting, thus blocking the line and causing a delay of three hours to the mail train from Sydney. The passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Extension in Northwestern India. Bombay, March 14
A battalion of the Surrey regiment is under orders to proceed to Khoja, in the Amran range of mountains, in view of the early extension of the Quetta-Pisheen Valley…
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Bombay, Monday.--A battalion of the Surrey Regiment is under orders to proceed to the Khoja Amran range of mountains with a view to the early…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News by Telegraph. Serious Railway Accident
KIAMA, Monday.--A serious accident, likely to prove fatal, happened at Bombo this morning to a laborer named Michael Macarthur, aged 76. He was run into by a ballast engine…
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