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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
4,658 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 233
The council of the League held a meeting yesterday afternoon. There were present, Messrs. A. C. Fraser (President), J. Mullens, Dugald Thomson, W. H. Perry, T. Davis, A. W. Meeks, W. H. Armstrong, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In the Summons branch at the Newtown Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Clarke, S.M., F. H. Fraser was proceeded against for having travelled on the railway between Sydney and Burwood on an expired…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ALTHOUGH trying to reduce expenses where practicable in all directions, the Railway Commissioners appear to be not unmindful of the material welfare of their employees. They have for some time past…
Continued on Trove, page 391 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—On Sunday afternoon, about half-past 2 o'clock, a train from Melbourne reached Collingwood station. At this point, in order to carry passengers to Heidelberg, the train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At half-past 2 o'clock on this afternoon a train from Melbourne reached Collingwood station. At this point, in order to carry passengers to Heidleberg, the train is shunted on to another line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, This Day. -- Traffic manager Higgs has issued a circular to the northern railway employees, notifying his retirement at the end of this month, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A railway accident occurred at Collingwood station this afternoon. A passenger train arrived there about 8 o'clock. The engine was shunted off for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Mr. John Higgs, traffic manager of the northern railway, and who retires from the service on the 28th inst., has issued a valedictory circular to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle, Sunday.--A fatal accident n reported from Redhead. Yesterday afternoon a picnic party wore returning to town in a number of waggona, the locomotive being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The railway traffic on Saturday was more than usually heavy. At 11.15 a.m. a special horsebox train carrying seventy-two horses left Redfern for Rosehill, and between noon and 2 o'clock five…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Sunday afternoon Mr. J. E. Bowden, the Parramatta District Coroner, held an inquest touching the death of a man named Joseph Rule, who was admitted into the Parramatta District Hospital on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PARRAMATTA, Monday.—A man named Joseph Rule while tinder the influence of drink fell off the Railway Bridge at Rockwood. He was taken to the Parramatta Hospital, and died shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—I wish to call your attention, and that of the Board of Education, to the difficulty of sending our children to school owing to the blocking of the old Combanning-road by a selector's fence. The school is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.—A fatal accident is reported from Redhead. On Saturday afternoon a picnic party were returning to town in a number of waggons, the locomotive being behind. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, February 25.—It is stated that j Russia has demanded the Shah's permission to construct a railway into Persia. [The wane of Russian influence in Persia has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During the recent election it was frequently made a complaint at Newcastle that it was the intention of the Railway Commissioners to close the workshops there. It is, however, not their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Commissioners hare come to the conclusion to make several important changes in railway management on the first of next month in the traffic branch of the services. It is alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—I notice in your issue of the 20th, a letter signed "William Affleck," on the subject of the 20 per cent. railway charge on wheat taken inland, whereby inland consumers are taxed, while consumers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—I take the liberty of calling your attention to the abuse that drivers make of the steam whistle, and I do not expect it will be rectified until more human lives are sacrificed. There are about one-third of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It is stated that Russia has demanded the Shah's permission to construct a railway into Persia…
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