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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Mr. Violette, representing a syndicate of British capitalists, has submitted proposals to the Governments of Western Australia and South Australia, for the construction of a railway line from Roebuck…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AN engineer named James Christie, aged 20 years, was working a planing machine at the railway works this afternoon, when his left hand got caught in the wheel,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GOULBURN, This Day. -- An engine-driver named David Sims, in going to work this morning, stepped off the down line to avoid a shunting engine, when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GOULBURN, This Day. -- The inquest on the body of D. Sims, engine driver, was held yesterday, when a verdict of accidental death was returned. Deceased,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, This Bay. -- A boy named Alexander M'Leod, aged 6 years, was run over by a tramcar at the West End, last night, and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir, -- Referring to the above, the question occurs: Why does the mail guard not travel in the mail compartment with his bags, when such fatalities which may be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--M. Violette, who claimed to represent a syndicate of British capitalists, was recently in Adelaide, and he laid before the Premier a scheme for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.-The New South Wales Railway Commissioners have communicated with the Queensland authorities, submitting the amended overland railway timetable necessitated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As a further instance of the remarkably peculiar system in the issue of tickets, those purchased for passengers by the workmen's trains are noticeable. A large number of workmen…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A deputation consisting of Messrs. Cowlishaw, Huntley, C. Stokes, Angus and J. Burns, waited upon the Mayor of Sydney yesterday with the object of placing before him a proposed scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PERTH, Thursday.-A proposal has been submitted for the construction of a railway line from Roebuck Bay to Angle Pole, near the Peake Station, to the Governments of Western…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In view of the somewhat extraordinary statements which Mr. Fletcher, the Minister for Works and Railways, is reported to have made use of at Dubbo on Wednesday evening, it is only fair that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, This Day. -- Yesterday afternoon a shocking accident occurred at the railway yard, Honeysuckle Point, to Mr. Fitzpatrick, foreman of the yard. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DEPUTATION from the New South Wales Tramway Company interviewed the Mayor yesterday, with the object of making a proposal to lease certain sections of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Railway Commissioners are having a monthly return compiled showing the number of hours which many of the men on the railway lines are engaged. This…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PERTH, This Day. -- The Beverley end Albeny railway was completed yesterday, and the first through train from Perth to Albany was [?]un yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the recent railway racing to Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Northeastern Dampany made a change in their engines; the regular engines that had been on the Scotch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wooden barque Belle Isle, about 1100 tons register, about 8 o'clock this morning collided with and considerably damaged the heavy wooden railings of the standing portion of the Pyrmont…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Writing from his consulate at Annaberg, Germany, Mr. George B. Goodwin, formerly a Maine journalist, gives the Saco Board of Trade some suggestions for the treatment of…
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