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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
4,078 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 204
Sir,--I would like to call your attention so what I term to be an outrage upon the mechanics and labourers in the loc[?]tive department. The Minister, as you are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The difficulty which has occurred amongst the railway operatives on the lines centreing at and around Chicago, has been settled by the men yielding and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, This Day.--Tho line to Sydney via Blayney and Harden is now completed. Arrangements have been made for the issue next week of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest was held before the City Coroner at the Prince Alfred Hospital yesterday into the circumstances attending the death of George Petrie, who was found on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir, -- Under this heading I noticed a letter signed "J.H." in your issue of 3rd inst., and think in justice to those concerned it should not pass without criticism. To expect that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GRENFELL, Thursday. -- At the meeting of the Railway League last night, a large petition was received from Parkes in favor of the Young-Dubbo line. Dubbo is about taking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WOLLONGONG, Thursday. -- Much anxiety is felt here concerning the impending decision of the Government regarding the Wollongong Harbor Trust scheme. A draft bill for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A deputation, consisting of residents of Prospect and Sherwood, introduced by Messrs, J. Nobbs and F. Farnell, Ms.P., waited upon the Under-Secretary for Lands yesterday, asking…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A deputation consisting of Messrs. J. Guild, W. Garner, A. Thompson, J. Farr and J. Herford, residents of St. Marys, near Penrith, was next introduced to the Minister for Works by…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, This Day.--A dastardly attempt was made to wreck a contractors' train on the Dookie line last night, someone placing a largo log across the ralls…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, consisting of residents in the Prospect and Sherwood districts, who received by Mr. Oliver, Undersecretary for Lands, on behalf of Mr. Garrett. The deputation, which was introduced by Messrs. Frank Farnelland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In this work Mr Hissey gives as a book which pleasantly recalls those he has given us is before. It is an account of a summer journey in search of the rural und the picturesque,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →While George Stephenson, the noble-hearted inventor of the railway locomotive, was still struggling for a livelihood, be lost his young wife, who left behind an only infant son…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →One of the most terrible railway accidents which have yet blackened the records of New South Wales occured at Homebush on Thursday week, and through which a pretty girl of 7 years, named…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ONE of the severest southerly gales ever experi-enced in New Zealand raged in Wellington on Thursday week. A huge tidal wave rose in the Larbour to within 18in. of the breast-work of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Hon. John Sutherland, Minister for Public Works, returned to Sydney on Friday evening, having completed his tour of inspection of the Western, and Southern, railways. The Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →A deputation of North Shore residents, introduced by Mr. Ives, M.L.A., interviewed the Minister for Works, and presented to him a copy of a resolution carried, at a large and enthusiastic meeting called to consider the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. S.E. Lees, M.L.A., introduced a deputation of residents of St. Marys, near Penrith, who requested the Minister for Works to allow the down Western mail train leaving Redfern at 8 p.m. to stop at their station, in order…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Another deputation, consisting of a number of the leading inhabitants of the Rosedale and Croydon Park estates, waited upon the Minister for Public Works, nnd urged him to take immediate action in the matter of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A railway collision occurred last 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…
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