Action Against the N.s.w. Railway Department
Melbourne, Monday.--Messrs. Crober and Snowdell have issued a writ, on behalf of Mr. G. O'Neill, against the Railway Department of New South 'Wales to recover £3090 damages…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
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Injuries to Railway Lines
The Railway Department are in receipt of information that, owing to the recent heavy weather, breaches have occurred at various points along the different lines of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir H. Parkes on Railway Management
The remarks made the other evening by the Premier in outlining his plans of railway reform indicate, we fear, an inadequate apprehension of the nature of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Fares to the Mountains. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Now that summer heat is on us, and most of your Sydney readers are probably yearning for their accustomed trip up the mountains, I think it would not be out of place to state my experiences of the sliding scale of fares…
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Altogether in opposition to anticipated results, the railway and tramline traffic throughout the day and during the evening was remarkably dull—insignificant, in point of fact—as compared with the records of previous years…
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HOBART, Tuesday.--Arbitration as to the tolls aud compensation to be paid by the Main. Line Railway Company to the Government for running powers over the Western Line from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Accident. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Permit me to draw public attention to the painful and costly proof of some of the statements made by the advocates for the loopline to Liverpool furnished by the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transcontinental Railway. (By Telegraph.)
ADELAIDE, Wednesday,--Both Houses of the Legislature last session affirmed the desirableness of the appointment of a Royal Commission to report with regard to the extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colonial Shipping and Ocean Tramps. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Ocean tramps on intercolonial waters are becoming a nuisance; also doing an injustice to colonial-owned vessels, which were built specially for that trade, by those who had watched, fostered, and encouraged it; from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Illawarra Railway
Notwithstanding the unpropitious state of the weather, a number of excursionists journeyed out from the metropolis to the different places of interest on the Illawarra railway, although the traffic was not by auy means so heavy as it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Trans-continental Railway. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Adelaide
At a meeting of the Executive Council this morning the following were appointed as a commission to inquire into the question of the trans-continental railway:—Dr. Cockburn, Mr. Murray, Hon. R. C. Baker,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
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During yesterday information was received at the Department of Public Works from the locomotive branch that a serious washaway had occurred on the North-Western line between…
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The Minister for Works (Mr. John Sutherland) has decided to run the Southern morning train from Sydney, which now reaches Goulburn shortly before 4 o'clock in the afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deputations. State of Botany-road
A deputation, composed of the Mayors of Redfern, Waterloo and Alexandria and several aldermen of those boroughs, waited yesterday on the Minister for Works with reference to the state…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →What the Lady on the Bridge Saw
The lady leaning over the bridge could see it all quite plainly. Indeed, she commanded a very good view of the room as well as of the long avenue and the white gate at the end of it wider the oak trees. There seemed to be some…
Continued on Trove, page 254 →Roads Department, Sewerage Branch, Sydney, 24th January, 1887. TENDERS
Attention is directed to Guzette notice Inviting tenders for undermentioned work, viz.— Time for receipt of Tenders…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Deputation. the Maintenance of the Botany-road
A number of the municipal representatives of Redfern, Waterloo, and Alexandria, waited upon the Minister for Works, the Hon. J. Sutherland, yesterday, to draw attention to the desirableness of some decision…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Balmain Tramway
The acceptance of a fair tender for the long delayed tramway makes it almost certain that this most valuable work will shortly be commenced, and the citizens of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department of Railways, Sydney, 28th January, 1887. Government Railways. Sunday Trains Between Sydney and Mount Victoria
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…
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