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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Some 30 years ago the Sydney and Parramatta Railway Company, afterwards called the Sydney and Goulburn Railway Company, opened the railway from Granviiie to Liverpool…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The annual picnic of the Tramway Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners was held at Sir Joseph Banks Grounds, Botany, yesterday. More suitable weather for the outing could not have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the monthly meeting of the committee of the Auburn Progress Association, held on Monday evening, the matter of raising the fares on the railway came under discussion, being…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LIVERPOOL, Wednesday. -- Yesterday, the Minister for Works, in accordance with a promise he had given, travelled over a considerable portion of the proposed loopline of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mayor of Paddington (Alderman Helm- rich) and Aldermen White, Harper, M'Namee, M'Intyre aud Mr. Blackmore, Paddington council-clerk. waited on the Mayor with regard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The driver of the mail engine to-night felt a jar when between Parramatta and Seven Hills. On arrival of the mail train at Blacktown, the hat, coat, and portion of the brains of some human being were found upon the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The route of the proposed loop-line of railway from St. Peters to Liverpool was to-day inspected by the Minister for Works and a number of gentlemen who have for some time past given their warm support to an undertaking which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation from Paddington, consisting of the following:—Mr. Wm. Helmrich, (mayor), Aldermen White, Harper, Macnamee, M'Intyre, and the council clerk, waited upon the Mayor yesterday, with regard to the erection of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A telegram to the San Francisco papers from St. Louis, on December 12,reports:-- "The par- ticulars of the train robbery yesterday, near Bellevue Station, Texas, show that three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Public are hereby informed that on SUNDAY NEXT, and every subsequent Sunday until further notice, the Tra[?] which at present leaves Sydney for Penrith at 8.45 a.m. will run on to Mount Victoria, arriving there at 1.35 p.m., and leaving that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TENDERS will be received at this Office up to 11 a.m. [?] the dates mentioned hereunder for the public works, [?] specified in the following schedule:— Nature of Works and Supplies, Dates to which Tenders can be received at this office…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday night, about 11 o'clock, the remains of a man, terribly mutilated, were found on the railway line between Wentworthville and Toongabbie by the night operator and two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Thursday .-- The Railway Department have accepted the tender of Messrs. Buckley and Sons for the construction of the Wandong to Kilmore line, the amount of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister for works yesterday received the plans of the proposed new brides over the Murray at Mulwala. Tenders will is invited for the work without delay. The brides…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lawrence M. Donovan dropped from the new suspension bridge into the Niagars River, a distance of 195ft, at 7 o'clock the morning of November 7, for a wager of £100. The weather was cool and clear,…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →On Wednesday night, on the arrival of the mail train at Blacktown, the driver, who had noticed that the train passed over something between Seven Hills and Parramatta,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Public are hereby informed that on SUNDAY NEXT, and every subsequent Sunday until further notice, the Train which at present leaves Sydney for Penrith at 8.45 a.m. will run on to Mount Victoria, arriving there at 1.35 p.m., and leaving that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The railway from Adelaide to the New South Wales border, at a point near the Thackaringa Mines, is expected to be ready for traffic by the end of February or early in March; and this fact opens up several questions of…
Continued on Trove, page 128 →The driver of the mail engine to-night felt a jar when between Psrramatta and Seven Hills. On arrival of the mail train at Blacktown, the hat, coat, and portion of the brains of some human being were found upon the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 145 →In the Clarence River district an agitation is going on for separation, the ground of it being the neglect of the district in the matter of railways. When our railways paid, no…
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