The Roads Far West
WILCANNIA, January 2.—From Tibooburra we learn that the principal stock routes going south are in a shocking state, not only from insufficiency of grass but on account of scarcity of water at…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1891
4,267 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 214
[?]hed Under a Train
LATE on Thursday afternoon a shooking accident occurred at the Clyde pl[?]. The men employed at Hundson’s works had just knocked off for the day—at 5 o’clock—and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheepskin Market. John Bridge and Co.'s Sales
JOHN BRIDGE AND CO. cleared heavy catalogues during week. Buyers are numerous, and very vigorous demand prevails. 6d to 6¾d for jull wools; 5½d to 6d for fair wools; 5d to 5½d for medium; 4d to 4¼d for short; 2d to 3¾d for…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Timber for Railway Purposes
The Railway Commissioners have called for tenders for 750,000 superficial feet of timber for the construction of railway rolling stock, and also for 100,000 railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dismissed Railway Officers
Yesterday morning the Railway Commissioners heard the appeal of Mr. Simpson, stationmaster at Dubbo, and the four other officers, who had been removed from the service owing to a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Tramway Trust Loan
LONDON, January 9 A 4?. per cent, loan of 130,000 has been placed on the London market by the Melbourne Tramway Trust. The minimum is fixed at 108, and tenders…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Transfer Tickets
It will be remembered that last week the Railway Commissioners received a deputation from residents of Waverley and Woollahra, and, among other matters, promised to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dismissal of Railway Employees
OWING to serious mismanagement in the carrying of some goods on the railways recently, the Commissioners for Railways decided to dismiss from the service two station-masters and three guards…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Extension From Narrabri to Walgett Versus Narrabri and Angledool. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Your correspondons John J. Pitt, makes an effort to displace the Narrabri and Walgett extension by an imaginative sketch of the Narrabri and Angledool proposal. But as Mr. Pitt admits "everything that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fatality
The man, Thomas Bisson, a flagman in the employ of the Railway Department, who received serious injuries by being run over by a locomotive in the Darling Harbour railway cutting on Tuesday last, died in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →London Offices, the Sydney Morning Herald, 78 Queen Victoria-street, E.C. (opposite the Mansion House Railway Station.) Represented by Messrs. B. S. Lloyd and Co
The office of this journal ia now open st the above address. Files of The Sydney Morning Herald are to be seen in the reading-room, and all information respecting…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Strike. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 9
The Scottish railway companies have refused to grunt the demands of the men for a reduction of the hours of labour to 10 hours per day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Extension to Walgett. Mudgee
The committee of the Railway League, to-day, met Mr. R. E. Jones, railway inspector, who produced a map showing the proposed routes. The opinion of the committee seemed to he that a line from Mudgee to…
Continued on Trove, page 105 →Railway Sleepers. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail
Sir,—In the last issue of the Sydney Mail I noticed a paragraph to the effect that the Railway commissioners are greatly in want of railway sleepers, and specifying that "the sleepers must be of ironbark." Surely this must be a mistake;…
Continued on Trove, page 65 →Railway Traffic
THE passenger traffic on the New South Wales railways for the past Christmas and New Year's holidays has been unprecedentedly heavy and correspondingly remunerative. Three facts are said…
Continued on Trove, page 89 →New Railway Time Table
A NEW time-table has been issued showing the alteration of passenger trains from January 1, 1891, until further orders. On the Southern line the 3.15 a.m. mixed, Harden to Goulburn, will be accelerated…
Continued on Trove, page 89 →Non-political Railways.--political Travellers. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")
Sir,--We have heard so much during the past few days as to the alleged non-political character of our railway management that I was somewhat astonished at an incident…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Po[?]lic Opinion. Railway Freights. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")
Sir,--The following important correpondence, re the way our railways are managed in New South Wales, will, I feel sure, be read with interest by the general public and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Accident
THOMAS BISSON, who was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Tuesday last with a very severe injury to his left arm, which subsequently had to be amputated,…
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