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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A preliminary meeting was held in the Balmain Municipal-chambers on Monday night, with the object of starting an agitation for the construction of the Long Nose Railway. There were about 150 present. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The office of this journal is now open at the above address. Files of The Sydney Morning Herald are to be seen inthe reading-room, and all information respecting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—I am one of the many who feel grateful for the numerous improvements introduced by our Commissioners in the management of the railways; but I am also one of the many whose feelings are inclined to be…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir,—The extent to which the ingenuity of man is in advance of the power of the people to adopt itself to it could not be better exemjplified than in our daily experience of railway travelling. What, for instance, could…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A large and enthusiastic meeting was held in the Protestant Hall, St. Marys, last evening for the purpose of urging the necessity of a trial survey of a line of railway from St…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OWING to the accident to the Monowai the return of Mr. Thow from America will be delayed a fortnight. His report will therefore not be before the Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AMONG the recently formed societies in connection with the Railway Department there is none making better progress than the railway band. It now numbers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An extension of time has been granted to the City Railway Commission within which to bring up their report…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The works on the mountain portion of the Mudgee railway line, where the extensive slides occur, are assuming an elaborate character, the engineers, under the direction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →St. MARYS, Tuesday.--A large and enthusiastic meeting was held in the Protestant hall, St. Marys, to-night, to urge the necessity of a trial survey of a line of railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the railway and tramway employee (Penrith branch) was held at the Temperance-hall, Penrith, on Saturday last, to consider certain questions relative to Mr. Hoyle's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We saw another good old dry thing at Lillie Bridge on Wednesday night, when P. V. O'Brien, the dandy novice, had got clean away with all the good old hands, and ran a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We say another good old dry thing at Lillie Bridge on Wednesday night, when P. Y. O'Brien, the dandy novice, had got clean away with all the good old hands, and run a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lillie Bridge Novice Handicap will be run through to-morrow evening. Billy Connelly is having real bad luck lately. He wants a heat bad too…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—The train which is advertised to leave Camperdown on Saturdays at 7.15 p.m. is not an express train. It is a train utterly without ambition to be an express train, or to rise in the world at all. With the help of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The commissioners have decided on making extensive alterations at the Liverpool Railway Station in connection with the proposed overhead crossing, which is to form a complement to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An application was made to the Full Court on Wednesday to make absolute a rule nisi, granted at the last sittings, for a new trial, or for a reduction of the amount of verdict, in the suit of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Referring to the above subject, it would appear that some of your correspondents are ignorant of the fact that on no less than four occasions has the extension of the tram to the Bondi beach been promised by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The railway committee for the extension of the line from Culcairn to Germanton, Messrs. John Ross, Allan, Grant, M'Lean, and William Purtell, are busy collecting statistics in view of a visit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious railway accident occurred to-night at the Turgamah railway station. A mixed train from Benalla arrived at 11.30 p.m., and when entering the station on crossing the points the first…
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