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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Sir,—Having been for a long time a resident in the neighbouringcolony of Victoria, and having taken some pains to study the present system of railway management in that colony. I cannot help being struck with the totally different…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The arbitration proceedings in the case of O'Rourke aud M'Sharry v. the Commissioner for Railways, in which the plaintiffs claim £100,000 for work done and damages in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--As we have the announcement from the Ministry that their railway policy will be laid before Parliament in a fortnight, it is time that those interested in the necessary and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—There is some intention I believe on the part of the Government to extend the Bondi tramway from its present terminus to the sea beach—to which place it was at first intended to have gone…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A shocking fatality occurred at about 10 o'clock last night on the Leichhardt tram line, some 30 yards or 40 yards from the Marion- street stopping-place, in Norton-street. As the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NYNGAN, Tuesday:--About 200 of the towns people assemble to night for the purpose of pronouncing in favor of the action taken by the Government in not carrying on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The arbitration proceeding in the case of O'Rourke and M'Sharry v. The Commissioner for Railways, in which the plaintiff claim £100,000 for work done and damages In…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The ceremony of turning the first sod in connection with the construction of line of railway from Yea to Alexandra tool; place to-day. The Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The people of Mudgee have been for time agitating for the return to the old arrangement of running night trains on the branch line to Mudgee. The night train, it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Frederick Ogle, alias Lamerse, whose name was mentioned in connection with the Tichborne racing fraud in Tasmania, was proceeded against at the Seymour…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Last night there were laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly papers relating to the supply of locomotives for the Government railways, together with specifications for the same…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—The attention of the Minister for Public Works, will, I trust, be called to the letter of Mr. G. Long in your issue of this morning, relative to the Bondi tramway, and its extension to the Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →If ever there was a house divided against itself it is the Railway Department. If we are to believe Mr. GOODCHAP and Mr. WHITTON the public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CROOKWELL, Wednesday.--The residents in tins district me anxiously waiting to sue if the Government will include the Goulburn to Crookwell railway in the first lines that are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →HOBART, Wednesday.--Great dissatisfaction is felt in the New Norfolk District at the stop page of the works on the Derwent Valley Railway, and a deputation waited on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A peculiar accident, which fortunately not atte[?]ded with very serious results, occurred on the Parramatta tramway line, opposite the Rosehill racecourse, last evening. The tram…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday Mr. Thomas Waddell, one of the member, for Bourke, in company with Mr. Howard, waited on the Minister for Works with regard to the construction of the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--it was with feelings of great sorrow I read in this morning's issue the account of the fatal tram accident at Leichhardt. Will you kindly allow me space to inform you what I…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some few months back the passenger rates on the suburban lines of railway were increased. Strong complaints made of the alteration were brought under the notice of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Works has given instructions that tenders be called at once for the construction of the proposed railway from North Shore to Pearce's Corner. The distance…
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