The Railway Policy
We learn that there is no intention whatever on the part of the Government to abandon the introduction of a Railway Bill this session. Although considerable delay has…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
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Strang Tram Fatality
Yesterday evening. shortly after 9 o'clock, a somewhat strange fatality occurred near the siding running past the tram coaling-shed, close to the entrance of Moore Park. Four empty…
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A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Ives. M.P. and the Revs. M'Kinnon and Johnston, of North Shore, waited on the Minister for Works yesterday morning and urged that the running of…
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Sir,--I saw by your issue on Tuesday last that it is the intention of the railway authorities to revert to the old system of fares. Allow me to call attention to the fact that though the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Victorian Railway Accident. Number of Injured, 200. the Official Inquiry
MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Inquest on the bodies of the victims in the Windsor railway accident opened to-day. The jury sat formally, but beyond the identification of the bodies…
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BULLI, Friday.--The Bulli Progress Committee last night passed a resolution inviting the co-operation of Wollongong for the purpose of urging the Government to construct a…
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According to a well-known Belgian journal, a strong syndicate has been formed of Belgian and English capitalists for the construction of 1500 miles of railways in…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday morning.—One of the most shocking disasters which has ever occurred on the Victorian railways took placein a deep cutting nearly midway between Prahran and…
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Following is the classification and proposed distribution for 1887 of votes upon the Estimates for subordinate roads, under officers of the Department:— SOUTHERN ROADS…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The New Train Arrangements on the Southern Line. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wagga Wagga
The delivery of the Herald about tea-time on the day of publication was an agreeable surprise to the residents, no preliminary notices of the new arrangement having been given by the Railway Department. We now receive the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Proposed Opening of the Railway From Clifton to Dapto. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wollongong
A large and influential meeting of residents from all parts of the district was held in the Town Hall last night, the Mayor presiding. The following resolution, moved by Mr. John Biggar, and seconded by Mr. John Payne, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Windsor Railway Disaster. the Departmental Inquiry. Funerals of the Victims. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
Public interest is at present contred in the departmental inquiry now being held into the circumstances attending the Windsor railway accident. The general feeling is that Guard Lang committed an error of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Kogarah to Sans Souci Tramway
On Saturday, when returning to Sydney from his tour of inspection of the Illawarra railway, the Minister for Works went over the new line of tramway from Kogarah to Sans Souci…
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The Minister for Works (Mr. Sutherland), in company with Mr. H. Richardson, traffic inspector, paid a visit on Saturday morning to various stations on the Illawarra railway, to…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Mr. W. G. Lempriere, one of the victims of the Windsor railway accident, died early on Saturday morning. His case was hopeless from the first, his spine being…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Hon. J. Nimmo, Minister of Public Works, has passed some severe strictures on the Public Works Department in New South Wales in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.S.W. Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association
The first annual general meeting of the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association was held yesterday in the Carrington Hall, Castlereagh-street. Mr. Henry C. Hoyle (president) was…
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The first annual general meeting of the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association was held yesterday in the Carrington-hall, Castlereagh-street…
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Regarding the bridge to be constructed over the River Murray, at Yarrawonga, the cost of which is to be borne jointly by Victoria and New South Wales, Mr. Nimmo attributes the delay in starting the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coroner's Inquests. Fatal Occurence on the Tramline at Moore Park
The City Coroner (Mr. H. Shiell, J.P.) held an inquest yesterday at the Soudan Hotel, Lower George-street, touching the death of a man named John O'Meara, about 36 years of age, whose dead body was found lying between a…
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