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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The flood has now entirely subsided, and the city is resuming its normal aspect. People are getting into their houses in the lately submerged portions and are cleansing them from the deposits of mud left. The Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—It is indeed to be hoped that something definite will be fixed upon, something tangible set afoot, with regard to the proposed railway to Forbes—now so longin abeyance—when the present tour of the Sectional…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—May I ask how it is that the Railway Commissioners do not make public their inability to receive goods to be forwarded along the various lines? Many firms have been put to great inconvenience carting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Holborow and E. J. Ball, M.'sL.A., met a large number of electors at the Temperance Hall last night. Mr. Jas. Worrall, J.P., occupied the chair. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the inquest held on the body of the shunter, Edward Collingwood, who was killed at the Waratah railway station, the jury returned a verdict of accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Information was received by the Railway Department at midnight last night to the effect that the repairs to the line at the scene of the Bell accident had been completed and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ALBURY, Sunday.--Persistent agitation is being kept up by people on the Victorian side of the river for railway communication with the Upper Murray. Last week Mr. Gillies…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Ilford and Mudgee section of tho railway has been restored, and passengers and mails between the Mudgee district and Sydney will not have to travel by coach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KATOOMBA, Sunday.--In reference to the slip on the railway line near here, the precautions taken by the Railway Commissioners have rendered the place perfectly safe for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WINDSOR, Monday.--It is considered in this district that a special grant of money from the Government would not be amiss to put the roads all around that have been so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWCASTLE, Monday.--A public meeting was held at Wickham on Saturday evening for the purpose of discussing the question of the Newcastle-Carrington Bridge. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--A surveyor named Alfred Ingram, aged 38, a resident of Elsternwick, was killed last night. He jumped from a moving train as it was entering the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MURRURUKDI, Monday.—At midnight on Saturday, as a goods train from the north was approaching Doughboy Hollow Station, the load behind was too heavy for the engine to compass…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A largely-attended public meeting was held at Pennant Hills on Saturday evening, at which the chair was taken by Mr. Z. Bellamy. A motion affirming that the recently-surveyed railway line…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Sunday, while two goods trucks loaded with wool and hay were being shunted on to a siding at Doughboy Hollow station, the tail rope broke. The siding is on an incline, and the trucks, gaining velocity, ran into…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Saturday a railway accident occurred at Bungendore. At about 8 o'clock in the morning the engine of the regular Saturday morning train from Goulburn ran into a stationary train of empty sheep-trucks. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—The concerts given by Hazon's Orchestra, in the Exhibition Building, afford a striking illustration of the way in which the management of our tramways neglect their own interest and those of the travelling…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE whole of the railway lines are now clear, and traffic has been resumed between Capertree and Mudgee…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Melbourne Tramway Company on Thursday last declined to accede to a request that they should extend their system to Coburg. A large deputation waited upon them and…
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