Lillie Bridge Handicap
The Lillie Bridge December Handicap was concluded last night, and it was won by the favourite, H. Stewart. The Consolation Handicap was won by W. Love. The following are the details of the various…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1892
4,177 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 209
Terrible Railway Collision. Twenty Killed. One Hundred Injured
LONDON, December 30.—A terrible railway collision has taken place at [?]. So for as is at present known 20 passengers have been killed, and 100…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Holiday Returns
The Railway Department has had prepared a return comparing the Christmas holiday traffic on the suburban railway lines with that for the same period last year. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Railway Collision in Russia. Twenty Passengers Killed. One Hundred Injured. London, Dec. 30
A report reached London this evening to the effort that a terrible railway collision has taken place at Rosovo, in Russia. So far as is at present known, 20…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The North Sydney Bridge
Comparatively few people in Sydney, outside the engineering community, know that such an important work as the erection of the first suspension bridge in Australia is going on, and fast approaching…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Lillie Bridge Trotting and Pony Race Meeting
The New Year's Meeting at Lillie Bridge commenced last evening, and attracted a large muster of sporting folk. The weather was fine, and the track in good order. Appended are the results of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Broken Hill Water Famine. Supplies "By Train
BROKEN HILL, "Wednesday.— The surrounding. tanks from which the population of Broken Hill have been, drawing water up till now. were-nearly empty, and great relief is felt here at the…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →The Jewel Robbery. the Blackfriars Bridge Take. The Little Suburban Villa. The Find--Into the Trap--The . Trial--And the Sentences
IT was in Whitechapel we heard the story of the Blackfriars Bridge big take. It ran:-- "Well, gentlemen, you must take it for a start that there is a biggish firm of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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 is now open at 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 6 →The Tram Traffic
The dulness of the weather in the early part of the day led to the trams not filing up so soon as is usually the case. They did not get to be fully loaded before 10.30 a.m. Special trams were sent to Botany,…
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It is computed that about 30,000 passengers travelled over the suburban lines of railway yesterday. There were a great number of tickets issued for National Park, and there were many visitors to Lady…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Collisions. London, Dec. 25
A disastrous railway collision occurred yesterday at Lowestoft, the well-known watering-place in the east of England. Three passengers were killed and 30…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Children Trampled to Death. London, Dec. 28
A terrible calamity has occurred at a theatre at Gateshead, in Durham. During the performance an alarm of fire was raised, and a fearful panic ensued among…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Free Railway Passes. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")
Sir,--In your leader of Monday last, re free railway passes, yon only touched on the mere fringe of the subject when you spoke of a few highly-paid civil servants and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fall Dovn a Railway Cutting
WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Two members or the Bathurst band, who had come to take part in the band contest, met with an accident last night. They fell down a cutting on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents. Terrible Gunpowder Explosion. Fatal Railway Collision. Gunshot Accident, Prince Christian Wounded
LONDON, December 23— Thirty-five laborers have lost their lives in a heavy snowstorm in the province of Abruzzo, Italy…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Shocking Railway Accident
As the train from Brighton Beach was nearing Middle Brighton Railway Station about 11 o'clock on Thursday night (Christmas Eve), the driver noticed that the engine had…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Unsatisfactory Train Arrangements. Windsor
Great complaints are made concerning the late hour of starting of Saturday night's train from Richmond and Windsor, and the public is of opinion that the former hour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Indian State Railways
The actual financial result to the state of working the Indian railways daring the official year 1889-90 is a loss of 1,603,395 tens of rupees. A fluid extract of the leaves of the eucalyptus is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shocking Railway Fatality
NYNGAN, Monday.—A shocking fatality occurred on the C[?]bar railway line on Saturday. A well-known inhabitant of the district, named Thomas Frost, was run over by a contractor's…
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