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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Sir,--I think, nothing exists for which I entertain such a pet aversion as rushing into print upon such subjects as the above. My reason is that it produces no beneficial result what-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE. Tuesday.--Mr. Speight, chairman of the Railway Commissioners, in an interview with the Minister for Railways, stated that it would not pay the department to make…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--On Saturday last, an engine and 10 trucks and two running tanks left the line and fell over the Great Northern Railway embankment about three miles north…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The subject of offering special facilities to residents of the country districts to come into the city to take part in the Centennial celebrations, and of offering every passible inducement to residents of other colonies to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A RECENT visitor from Adelaide gives his opinion in the Adelaide OBSERVER of our railway management, from his personal experience. The scene opens at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →We are within a few weeks of seeing an electric tram running in the street of Sydney Mr. Edward Pritchard who has secured the Australasian right of the Julien electric traction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Allow me to call the attention of the public to a mismanagement on the part of some responsible officer of either the Works or Railway Departments as to the renting of a portion of land at the Summer Hill Station to a firm of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HOBART, This Day.--For the year just closed, the receipts on the Government railways show an increase of £7640 over those of last year. The main line receipts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY morning the blacksmiths employed in the Eveleigh Railway workshops, to the number of about 130, were compelled, owing to the intense heat and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Government have communicated with the Governments of Queensland, Victoria and South Australia with respect to through passenger tickets from these colonies at reduced rates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--Having read the article in your issue of to-day upon electric tramcars in Sydney, your remarks upon the drawbacks of the existing. system and its non-success financially have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The progress made in the science of electricity as a motive power during the last few years has been panoramic in its gradations. Perfection has not yet been reached ; and long…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BEGA, Thursday.--Sir Henry Parkes, accompanied by Mr, Hy. Clarke, M.P., arrived here from Sydney at 6 o'clock this afternoon. The Premier and the senior member for the Eden…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--On New Year's Day a number of ladies and gentlemen determined to visit Sutherland, and this is oar experience of the manner the trams and railways are worked to pay. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MICHAEL CALLAGHAN, caretaker of the Harbour and Rivers department, was crossing the wharf at Darling Harbour this morning when a passing engine knocked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Kindly allow me a brief space in your columns to refer to several matters connected with the above. 1. Selling Tickets.—There appears a general idea that it is not now allowed for passengers fo oblige each other by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The scheme set on foot in Victoria, through the apparent initiative of South Australia, for a non-political conference to discuss the present internecine war of railway tariffs, has come to nothing, in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The members of the present Government who made such an outcry when the Jennigs Dibbs Government was in office at the ac[?] of the then Minister of Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Mr. Gillies is willing to agree to the proposal made by Sir Henry Parkes that a conference respecting the railway tariffs be held by the Ministerial representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle,Friday.--This morning a gatekeeper named Robert King was engaged in opening the Market-Street gates to admit a cart passing, when a locomotive coming towards the…
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