The Sleeping Guard and Runaway Train
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--On Friday last the guard van and four trucks of a goods train from Spencer-street to Sandhurst broke away from the train when near Digger's Rest, 20…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1891
4,267 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 214
Woodpaving of Cook's River-road
Satisfactory terms having been arranged between the Government and the Newtown Borough Council, Messrs. Wilmot and Morgan, the contractors, yesterday entered upon the…
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The commencement of the work of wood-blocking Cooks River-road was celebrated yesterday by a luncheon in St.George's Hall, Newtown, at which a large number of the leading residents of…
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THE meeting of the Railway and Tramway Service Association held last night ended in a motion for adjournment. It is difficult to see what other termination it could have…
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A mass meeting of railway and tramway employes was to have been held last night in the Carrington- hall, to farther discuss the action of the Commissioners in dismissing Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coombsberrow Mystery. Contents. Vii. How Godfrey Yound His Father. Viii. a Seeming Digression Which Leads Back to the Point. Ix. the Eye in the Darkness. X. Frabcis Gwynn's Wooing. Xi. Constable Stone. Xii. a Farce Within a Tragedy Xiii. the Ethics of Lying: Part I. of the Tramp's Story. Xiv. the Tramp's Story, Concluded. Xv. Village Humors. Xvi. Dry Bones. Xvii. in the Woods, Xviii. Ishmael. Xix. the Writing in the Cavern. Xx. Mr. Collier at Bay. Xxi. the Tuined Barn. Xxii. Conclusion. Chapter VII.—(Continued)
Whilst he thus spoke, Godfrey for the first time looked at him attentively, but was not overmuch attracted by what he saw or heard. The man was a stranger to…
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A railway guard named John Hyndes, 44, residing at No. 21, Railway-street, Camperdown, was taken to Sydney Hospital yesterday, suffering from a severe abrasion on the right side…
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The strikers who were in the service of the Caledonian Raihvay Company have burned the Calderbank station…
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Sir,—As so much dependa on the wise management and judicious extension of the railway system of this colony, I desire to place on record a word of protest against the proposed line from Cobar to Cockburn, on…
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AN elderly person named John Moody, lately a clerk in the Central Parcels Railway Office, was charged at the Water today with having on October 2 last…
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The members of the Scotch Railway Employees' Society are subscribing funds towards paying the amount of the arrestment granted by the Scotch Court upon the…
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The railway tenders were opened yesterday by the secretary to the Commissioners and the accountant to the Department, the Commissioners being absent on a tour of inspection…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Zone System of Railway Rates. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--The main point raised in this discussion is-- Would the adoption of free freights be of equal benefit to the community ? You point out in your footnote to "T. O'R.'s" letter in…
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AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--A deputation of 20 members of the House of Representatives waited on the Premier to-day to urge the reinstatement of the railway employes dismissed…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Last night the bodies of a young woman and a little boy were found on the railway line between Laverton and Werribee. The female has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Scotch Railway Strike. Incendiarism at a Railway Station
LONDON, Monday Night.--A large meeting of trades-unionists was held in Edinburgh yesterday, when it was determined to contribute funds freely for the assistance of…
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A LARGELY ATTENDED meeting of the residents of Ryde and adjoining districts was held at the Council Chambers, Ryde, on Saturday evening last to take into consideration the…
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MORUYA, Thursday.--The Malabar Creek Bridge, between Moruya and Garling own, for which money was voted some years ago, has at last been started. It is expected that a…
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ALBURY, Thursday.--A report from Hay gives particulars of an awfully sudden death, Mr. Jacob Newton, a young man of about 30 years of age, and brother to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Underground Railway. Subterranean Line in London. London Bridge to Stockwell
APROPOS of the new City and South London Railway, opened with such eclat not long since by the Prince of Wales, were I asked to folate the most trying circumstance in a…
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