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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Accounts reach us of the completion of a novel power motor, which was commenced in July 1880, on the Pacific coast, at Parallel Point, San Francisco. The motor is suspended from a bridge of heavy timber constructed across a…
Continued on Trove, page 742 →The Hon John Sutherland (Minister for Public Works) turned to Sydney on the 30th ult., having completed hiB tour of inspection of the Western and Southern railways. The Minister was absent from the metropolis for a fortnight,…
Continued on Trove, page 761 →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 Gouiburn to Crookwell railway. One party has reached about 15…
Continued on Trove, page 768 →A very sad fatality happened on the 29th nit., at the level crossing at Homebush, a gatekeeper named Isaac Worrall and a little girl named Nellie Maude Woolley being run over and killed toy the 6.30 p.m. passenger train from…
Continued on Trove, page 767 →The Minister fob Works returned to Sydney the other day, after about a fort-night's absence, during which, he had been inspecting the Southern and Western…
Continued on Trove, page 731 →Messrs. Carruthors, Dunn, and Henson, Ms.L.A., accompanied a deputation of local residents to-day, to urge on tho Minister of Works to construct the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Ives, M.L.A., introduced a deputation appointed at a public meeting hold on the North Shore recently to urge on the Government to extend the proposed line…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Central Court yesterday, before Mr. Delobery, D.S.M., Albert Bush, 22, described as a commercial traveller, and John Williams, 51, bookmaker, were charged with stealing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. J. E. Ives. M.P., introduced a deputation, consisting of Messrs. Smith, Woolcott, Waterhouse, M'Mahon, Edwards and M'Ewan, residents of St. Leonards and neighborhood, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Messrs. J. E. Carruthers, Davis, aud Hen- son, Ms.P., introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works, consisting of Aldermen Taylor and Scott, and .Messrs. Walker,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--The Government bare selected two junior Commissioners for the South Australian Railway Board, namely, Mr. John Hill, of Hill and Co., Limited, and Mr: A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—From a paragraph which I notice is your paper, I observe that Mr. Whitton has replied to the minute of the Minister for Works published in the papers some few weeks back, on the appointment of trial railway surveyors…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A largely-attended meeting of employees in the locomotive branch of the Railway Department was held to-day to discuss the question of the damage recently done to the rails at Lancefield by the engine of a goods…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →NEWCASTLE, This Day.--A deputation on Saturday waited on Messrs. F. Nelld and A. Edwards, railway officials, and suggested that there should be more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, This Day.--Mr. A. S. Neill, a member of the firm of Messrs. Elder, Smith and Co., and Mr. John Hill, of Messrs. Hill and Co.'s coaching establishment, have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE second annual meeting of the members of the Sydney branch of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Employee's Association was held on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE people who have been complaining of our railway management must now shut their mouths. An inspired paragraph in the two morning papers states that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT bus been the custom for the Railway Department to issue passes on the railway to employees, but owing to the increased passenger traffic on many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Minister for Works and the Engineerin-Chief for Railways are still bickering over the appointment of trial surveyors Mr. Whitton is naturally cheflag under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--Two little girls were knocked down by a train at Golden, Square, Sandhurst, to-day, and killed. They were crossing the railway line in a…
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