Railway Collision Near Melbourne. (By Telegraph.)
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A railway accident occurred to-night at Canterbury, on the Boxhill line, owing to the passenger train from Melbourne colliding with some trucks. A…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1888
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Queensland Railway Rates
BRISBANE, Friday. -- A large and influential deputation of residents of Warwick and the Darling Downs interviewed the Government to-day on the subject of the reduction of…
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WHEN workmen’s weekly tickets were first issued on the railway, the intention was to induce people to live outside of the metropolis, and to so…
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CASINO, This Day.--News has been received here that Mr. Whitton has condemned the present survey of the Grafton and Tweed railway, on the ground that…
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THE Colonial Secretary summoned another meeting of the Cabinet for to-day with the view of Ministers being allowed to have a further nibble at the tramway and…
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RECENTLY MR. PULSFORD tried to make capital out of the fact that the applicants for railway billets in Victoria were several times as numerous as the…
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MELBOURNE, This Day.--An official report attributes the Canterbury collision to the fact that the driver of the goods train was unable to control the speed of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Bus and Tram Improvement. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--mere are two little things I am surprised are not thought of and carried out. One is, that instead of the trams carrying colors to indicate where they are going at night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Tramways. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--I trust the Government will well consider the step they propose taking in leasing the tram service of this city to a company. I would point out to them the fact that at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Late Railway Collision Near Melbourne. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne
The railway collision at Canterbury station on Friday hight is attributed first to the inability of the driver of the goods train, whick drove the tracks off the siding, thereby, causing the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Chairman of the Railway Commission Board. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—As one who has had 12 years exp[?] stant travelling over the railways of New South Wales, allow me to endorse the opinions expressed by yours correspondent "Anti-hunbug," in your issue of to-day. If it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Statistics. (From the Daily News.)
A number of statistics relating to European railroads are published in the Engineer, and it is easy to draw from them some interesting comparisons between other nations and oursolvos. While our area stands seventh and our…
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NEWCASTLE, This Day.--The through Sydney and Brisbane trains will run into Newcastle after Monday next…
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THE Colonial Secretary summoned another meeting of the Cabinet for to-day with the view of Ministers being allowed to have a further nibble at the tramway and…
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THE Cabinet had another two-hours' consultation to-day over the question of leasing the tramways, and also the manufacture of the locomotives, but again…
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The engine men employed on the railway lines as far as New York have resolved to support the men on strike on the Chicago and Quin[?]y lines, and it is…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The tender of Messrs D. Munro and Co., Limited, of £58,169 for the construction of the line of railway from Burnley to Glen Iris has been accepted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Chairman of the Railway Board. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Your correspondent " J.V.H.," in this morning's issue of The Daily Telegraphy seems, to judge from his letter, to have been greatly exercised in his mind over my letter on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The North Shore Railway Terminus. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--The letter appearing m your issue of the morning is so manifestly absurd that it scarcely deserves a moment's consideration. When a man writes upon a subject about which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coogee Trams. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Kindly permit me through the medium of your columna to point out the grent inconvenience vinifera are obliged to contend with in endeavouring to roach one of the prottiest places around Sydney, viz., Coogee Aquarium and…
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