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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A shocking accident occurred on the Sandringham railway line this evening. Ignatius Morita Feigle, formerly head machinist of the Evening Herald office, attempted to cross the line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ANY honest man who will take the trouble to inquire into the financial condition of our railways, aided by the light of comparison afforded by the other colonics, must come to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the meeting of the Public Works Committee yesterday afternoon an important statement was made by Mr. Henry Deane, Engineer-in-Chief for the construction branch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING of the Public Works Committee was held at the offices of the committee yesterday, when the Glen Innes-Inverell railway was under consideration. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man named Hood, in the employ of the Cambrian Railway Company, recently gave evidence before a select committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A RATHER peculiar tram accident occurred this morning in Belmore Park, where two trams came into collision. A little before 9 o'clock a tram, whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works yesterday Mr. Henry Deane, Engineer-in-Cheif for Railways (construction branch), made a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--In reference to the intention of the Victorian Railway Administration to increase the rates on the Melbourne to Silverton line, the South…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Minister for Railways is now considering the important question of revising the freight reductions which have been made for many years…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Wednesday.--The directors of the Cambrian Railway Company have been summoned to the bar of the House of Commons to explain the reasons for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE willingness of Messrs. D. Proudfoot and Co. to accept Treasury bills at par in payment of their contract price of £70,000 odd for the construction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It is stated that an offer has been made to the Government by Messrs. Proudfoot and Co. to proceed with the construction of the Marrickville to Burwood road railway,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Minister for Works to-day received a proposal from Messrs. Proudfoot and Co. to construct the railway from Burwood-road to Marrickville, payment to be made in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Redfern Railway Terminus this morning there was a small supply of forage forward from the numerous stations along the northern southern, and western lines. Buyers were in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At about 9 yesterday morning a fettler, named Matthew Callagan, 46, and living at 424 Bourke-street, Surry Hills, was knocked down by a train at liberty-street railway crossing, Newtown. He…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It was reported to the Bail way Commissioners on Thursday that the Nyngan Railway Goods Sheds had been discovered to be on fire at 2 o'clock that morning, and before anything could…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At about 2 o'clock this morning an alarm of fire was given in town. It was found that the railway goods shed was the scene of conflagration, and the whole structure was soon a vast sheet of flame…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Public Works Committee met yesterday afternoon, and proceeded to take evidence in respect to the proposed railway from Glen-Innes to Inverell. The members…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A DEPUTATION, representing the district of Manilla, was introduced to the Minister for Works to-day by Mr. Dowel, M.L.A., and asked that an investigation might be made…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A DEPUTATION to-day waited on the Minister for Works with reference to the extension of the railway to the eastern suburbs. The boroughs of Woollahra, Waverley,…
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