Victorian Railway Revenue Returns. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE. Tuesday.--The railway revenue returns for the half-year ending December 31 show a large increase over the estimate, although considerable reductions in the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
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The New Railway Fares to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--This morning when it became known that the railway fares had been largely increased in the more remote suburbs there was a general howl of execration against the Government…
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MOLONG, Tuesday.--Fifty tons of produce have been waiting at the railway station at Molong for over two days purely for the want of trucks. There are none to be had at any…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Kogarah Tramway. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--I notice in your columns of the 3rd last the following paragraph:-- "It appears the Government are only waiting now for those who have promised the land on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company. (By Cable.)
HOBART, Wednesday-- The Premer received to-day a dispatch from the Agent-General, Mr. Adye Douglas, explaining the circumstances under which he consented to the deposit of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Tramway to George's River. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Kindly permit me through your columns to correct an erroneous statement, that the Goverment is only waiting for those who promised land along the route of the Kogarah tramway to execute the transfers, and giving…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Disastrous Railway Collision: Twelve Persons Roasted to Death. Great Loss of Life. (Reuter's Telegram.) New York, Jan. 6
A disastrous railway collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday near the town of Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger train and a goods train, collided, killing 22…
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Some considerable time ago the Minister of Works, on representations made by Mr. T.M. Williamson, M.P., and without consulting the council's interests, abolished the tollbar on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Supposed Attempt to Wreck a Train. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Another attend was made to wreck a train on the Castlemaint line, near the Chewton Bank, early this morning. The driver of a goods train detected a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Department of Lands, Sydney, 6th January, 1887. Application to Close and Purchase Unnecessary Road
ATTENTION is invited to the notice in the Government Gazette of the 21st December, 1886, calling for objections (if any) to the application of L. A. Weinert to close and purchase unnecessary road in the parish of Lidsdale, county of Cook…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Notices. Department, of Railways, Sydney, November 30, 1886. Government Railways
TENDERS will be received at this Office up to 11 a.m. on the dates mentioned hereunder for the public works, &c., specified in the following schedule:— Nature of Works and Supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disastrous Railway Collision. Great Loss of Life. Twelve Persons Roasted to Death. (Reuter's Telegram.) New York, Jan. 5
A disastrous railway collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday near the town of Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger train and a goods train, collided, killing 22 persons on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reduction of Railway Employes' Wages
We understand that circular instructions have been issued by the Commissioner for Railways that no new hand is to be taken on at a higher rate of remuneration than 0s. per day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Transcontinental Railway
The close of the year affords (says the S. A. Advertiser) a fitting opportunity to give a brief resume of the progress made towards connecting with an "iron road" the northern and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Botany Tram. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--As you have favored Roland Willis by aserting his letter re the stopping of Botany trams at Bay-street, will you kindly extend your sympathy to another of your subscribers ?…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Railways. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Our Minister for Works is raising the wind by increasing the passenger rates, reducing the cumber of trains and by dismissing employes. The Minister for Lands is adopting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Melbourne Adelaide Railway
ADELAIDE, Thursday.--The commencement of through traffic on the intercolonial railway has been postponed from January 14 to January 19, at the request of the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Railway Collision. Great Loss of Life
New York, Thursday.--A disastrous railway collision, involving great loss of life, occurred yesterday near the town of Tiffin, Ohio. A passenger train and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fares. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--The suburban passengers are not the only ones who have to complain of the increase in fares. We are blessed with two railway stations in one township. The distance between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →How to Prevent Trams From Paying. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--There are, as you are aware, several kinds of tram carriages--J, the double-decker, the upper part of which is given up to smokers ; 2, the old-fashioned single-decker, open at…
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