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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The Railway Commissioners have been devoting some time lately looking into the organisation of the stores department; and they find that by having branch stores at Goulburn, Bathhurst,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It appears that the Commissioners are about to adopt a special system for the much-abused Mudgee railway line, ia the belief that its traffic can be vastly improved as its popularity increases…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A special meeting of the finance committee of the Municipal Council of Sydney was held, at the Town Hall, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of considering the bill which had been submitted to them by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Permit me briefly to draw official attention to a few matters in connection with above route:—1. Trams timed to leave Bridge-street at 12.55 and 1.35 p.m.: For a considerable time residents have been greatly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Railway Commissioners have been considering the somewhat extensive character of the stores department, and have made some rather extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MR. THOM, the locomotive superintendent of South Australia, who was engaged at the instance of the Railway Commissioners to report upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Commissioners have been devoting some attention to the organisation of the stores department, and they find that the maintenance of stores at Goulburn, Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A special meeting of the finance committee of the City Council was held yesterday to consider the bill drafted for the New South Wales Tramway Company, Limited, to enable that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Thursday. -- The Railway Department have decided to reduce the rates for the carriage of Queensland sugars on all the railway lines of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A BANKSTOWN correspondent writes:--"The recently - formed, so-called roads around Bankstown made by the unemployed are left in a most dangerous state,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Department of Public Works, Sydney, 6th March, 1889. Sir,—Referring to the petition presented by you from residents of Rydalmere, urging the erection of a bridge over subiaco…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →If you meet Edison this morning he has just found something, and if you meet him to-morrow he has added a new discovery to the realm of scientific invention. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ADELAIDE, Thursday.—The Glenelg Railwsy Company, having refused to pay £250 per annum for the right to run its trains through Glenelg-streets, the Glenelg corporation has applied for an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Will Mr. Eddy oblige a large number of patient sufferers by taking up the position of on observer any day at the corner of Crown and Oxford streets. Here, four sets of trams take their way into…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Our Albury correspondent telegraphed on the 8th:—A remarkable instance of the result of the operation of the differential railway freights has come under notice. In order to encourage trade with Sydney, goods…
Continued on Trove, page 563 →The Railway Commissioners have arranged for a detailed survey to be made at the Transcontinental railway from Angle Pole, northwards, for a distance of 250 miles. The point which is now proposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 548 →WHEN so many people in the persons of members of Parliament and others--we say others advisedly, for there are a lot of folks who dead-head their way over the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Railway Commissioners will proceed on Monday up the north western line to make an inspection of the proposed Narrabri-Walgett and Narrabri-Moree railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, This Day.--A deputation from the Railway Employees' Conference waited on the commissioners to-day, and among the concessions granted was one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--For the benefit of the travelling public, will you permit me to give the result of my experience on the railway at the much-favored suburb of Strathfield, with the hope that they…
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