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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Violent gales have been experienced throughout the colony. The weather is intensely cold. During the gale last night the railway line between Wellington and Petone was wrecked in a terrible…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Surveyors are at work at both ends of the proposed tramway to Tuena. They have started at a point about 6 miles from Crookwell on the permanent survey of the Goulburn to Crookwell railway. One party has reached about 15…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A ebocking fatal railway accident took place at Homebush yesterday. At about 5.40 p.m. a little girl sained Nellie Woolley, aged seven, was in the act of crossing the line in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--In your issue of the 27th last, appeared a letter under the above heading signed " John Forsyth." Notwithstanding I at one time advocated the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GOULBURN, Thursday.--The Minister for Works to-day visited the locomotive goods branches of the Railway Department Mr. Crawford, traffic manager, and Messrs. Oakly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AUCKLAND, Thursday.--One of the severest southerly galea ever experienced in New Zealand has raged in Wellington during the last 24 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Throughout the whole of yesterday fairly large number of persons availed themselves of tram and the railway service. During the forenoon thamway time-table was slightly altered, but in the afternothe ordinary table was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An enthusiastic meeting was held on the 24th, in the council chambers, to make arrangements for a demonstration on the occasion of the opening of the new bridge at Bloomfield over the Murrumbidgee, near Yass, on tho 14th April…
Continued on Trove, page 706 →The railway difficulty which had arisen between Manitoba and the Dominion Government, in regard to the construction of the Red River Railway, has been happily…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Minister of Works has returned to Sydney, after making an exhaustive inquiry into the operations of the railway workshops in the different…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IF a private company, with a little healthy rivalry from opposition concerns, had the suburban railway, there would have been a complete…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—If no change taken place to minimise the frequent delays which occur so often on the up line, until such time as a duplication of rails over the suburban area in carried out, I fear your columns will continue to be inundated…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Hon. John Sutherland (Minister for Public Works) returned to Sydney last evening, having completed his tour of inspection of the Western and Southern railways. The Minister was absent from the metropolis for a fortnight,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →These celebrated watches are unsurpassed for excellence of material and workmanship, and are universally acknowledged to be the most accurate timekeepers. Astronomers and exploters have unhesitatingly pronounced…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.--A collision occurred this morning on the Creswiek Daylesford railway lines. Several persons were injured. An engine and a van left…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--Report very often lies, is ad mittedly true, but the report that a syndicate, that a clique, who for years held possession of the streets of Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A magisterial inquiry was held by Mr. Pinhey, J.P., on Saturday into the circumstances attending the death of Isaac Werrill,aged 62, and Nellie Mande Woolley, aged seven, who were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.-- A narrow escape from a serious accident occurred on the Daylesford to Creswick railway on Saturday morning, near Wombat. A goods train was proceeding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A railway collision occurred on Saturday on the Daylesford line between a goods trains and a passenger train. It is a single line, worked on the block system. The fireman of the goods train fell off the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For the convenience of the public there has been placed on the Sydney Railway Station, near the ticket offices, a box for letters, advertisements, and business announcements in connection with the Sydney Morning Herald…
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