Cheap Railway Excursions. a Boon to Holiday-makers
THE Railway Commissioners have decided to try a number of experiments from time to time during the summer months to induce holiday-makers to travel through the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1891
4,267 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 214
Railway Dismissals
Reference has already been made to the dismissal of Mr. Robert Simpson, the station-master at the Dubbo railway station, for alleged neglect to promptly forward some goods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners and Mr. Hoyle. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--As one who was present at the lecture delivered in Kiama by Mr. Hoyle, permit me to say that neither the manner nor the matter of his address suggested any hostility to or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sunday Traffic on the Railways. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Your correspondent, Mr. William James writes:--"That the action of the Bathurat Lord's Day Rest Society must hare greatly pleased all those who abstain from Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Scotch Railway Strike. Further Rioting Near Glasgow. Trade Paralysed.--factories Closed
LONDON, Tuesday Night.--Affairs in connection with the railway strike in Scotland are becoming more critical, and the scarcity of coal is causing the stoppage of work at…
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The concluding rounds and final of the Lime Bridge Professional Handicap were run off last night. The attendance was good, and the running was of a very good class, but betting on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crushed by a Train. Accident to a Young Man. PARRAMATTA
About 5 o'clock last evening a man named William Reeves, about 35 years of age, employed at Hudson's works, Clyde, fell under a train at Clyde platform, and…
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The flagman Thomas Bission, who was admitted into the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday, suffering from a fracture of both arms and injuries to the skull, caused through having been run over by an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Strike in Scotland. Dockers Joining the Strikers. Losses of the North British Railway Co. LONDON, January 7
The railway employees in Scotland who have refrained from taking part in the strike are complaining of being overworked. Reports from Dundee state that many of the…
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AN inquiry was held to-day into the conduct of Station-master Simpson, in charge of the Dubbo railway station, who was recently dismissed the service for alleged neglect in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Trucks Wanted Complaints from Lithgow. LITHGOW
Considerable dissatisfaction exists here for want of railway trucks for the consignment of coal. The Zig-zag mine was thrown idle all yesterday, and the Vale of Clwydd mine was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Visitor's Impression of American Railways
There is no more interesting study to the foreigner who visits the United States for the first time than the methods whereby the vast system of railway communication has grown up,…
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The article which to-day will be found reprinted elsewhere in our columns respecting the newer development of railway management in Hungary is one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Great Railway Reform. the Zone System. Astonishing Success in Hungary
In Hungary there are 6570 miles of railway, of which the State owns or controls 4415. Up to a very recent date the Hungarian Minister of Railways invariably appeared before the House…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Railway Station at Ashfield
The plans of[?] the proposed alterations at the Ashfield railway station, in connection with the quadrupling of the line between Sydney and Homebush, have been submitted to the local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commissioners and Mr. Hoyle. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Sir,--Many of us who are too disgusted with the conduct of our politics and politicians to have anything to do with them would, I teel sure, be willing to step out of our retirement…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Scotch Railway Strike. Dock-labores Joining the Strikers
LONDON, Wednesday Night.--The railway employes in Scotland who have refrained from taking part in the strike complain of being overworked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Nomenclature. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I notice from your reports that the Commissioners do not favour the proposition to make the stations at Homebush, Burwood, and Strathfield correspond in name with the municipalities in which they…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Strike. Losses Inflicted by the Strike. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 7
At the instance of Mr. John Burns, as an evidence of their sympathy with the Scottish railway men now out upon strike, 3000 Dundee dockers have decided to…
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