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Railways, roads & transport, 1893

3,617 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 181

The Ocean-street Tramway

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 6
Also in The Australian Star

A number of residents of William-street waited on the Mayor at the Town Hall, yesterday, to ask him, in order to obviate, as far as possible, stoppage of traffic and injury to business in the…

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Deputations. Tramway Extension to Manly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 7

Yesterday a deputation, consisting of a larger numof members of the Manly and Putwater Railway League, waited upon the Minister for Works, Mr. W. J. Lyne, to urge upon him the necessity of…

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The Menindie Tramway. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 5

Great interest is being evinced here regarding the Menindie Tramway Bill, which comes before the Assembly to-day, and a general hope is expressed that it will pass the Lower House…

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Tramway to Manly. Deputation to the Minister for Works

The Australian Star · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 6

A deputation introduced by Mr. J. F. Guilon, M.L.A., waited upon the Minister for Works to-day for the purpose of urging the extension of the…

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North Coast Railway. Cheap Tickets on Fridays and Saturdays

The Australian Star · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 6

Mr. R. Stevenson, M.L.A., has received a letter from the Secretary for Railways with reference to the question of cheap tickets issued on Fridays and Saturdays to…

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The Dismissed Tramway Driver. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 6

Sir, -- In consequence of the debate having taken place in the Assembly without my having had an opportunity to say a word on the subject of the action of the…

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Bondi Tramway Extension. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 6

Sir, -- Kindly grant me a brief space in your columns to express my great surprise at the announcement that an outlay of £8400 is about to be spent on above. Apart from…

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Deputations. a Tramway to Manly

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1893 · page 6

A deputation, consisting of the Mayor and aldermen of Manly, the Mayor of North Shore, and representatives of the Manly and Pittwater Railway League, was introduced…

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Improved Roads

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 6

The Auburn streets are now showing the first fruits of municipal government. The principal thoroughfares are being asphalted and this when completed will be a great boon to…

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A Dangerous Bridge

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 17

A Bathurst correspondent wires: Complaints are frequently being made of the insufficiency of the sides to the bridge over the railway at Milltown. Accidents, fortunately, have not, taken…

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Country Roads and Bridges

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 4

The Minister for Works will include in the monthly Supply Bill for April an item of £50,000, to reinstate bridges and repair roads damaged by the recent floods in the…

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The Queensland Floods. Victoria Bridge

Evening News · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 6

BRISBANE, Friday.—Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith disapproves the proposal to erect a temporary bridge over the gap between Queen-street and the existing portion of Victoria Bridge, and favors…

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The Restoration of the Victoria Bridge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.--Mr. F. A. Franklin, M.I.C.E., formerly constructing engineer of bridges for many years to the New South Wales Government, has been here for some…

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Railway and Tramway Ambulance Corps

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 7
Also in The Australian Star

The annual meeting of the Radway and Tramway Ambulance Corps was held in the Railway Institute last night. There was a large attendance of members. Mr. Fehon, one of the Commissioners for…

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At The Statue. Liberty of Railway Employees. a Martryed M.L.A.

Evening News · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 6

The appeal to "lovers of freedom and liberty of free speech" to "roll up" at the Statue at noon Friday was responded to by the appearance of four people, the two originators of the meeting…

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Private Railways

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 595

Mr. Dowel is certainly persistent in his endeavour to get a railway made from Tamworth to Barraba. He submitted to the Assembly a motion for this to be taken up as a Government line. Of…

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Ocean-street Cable Tram. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 10

Sir,--As the Minister for Works is wisely making due allowance for the future extension of the tramline past Ocean-street, why not continue it at once as far as Double…

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The North Shore Railway. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1893 · page 10

Sir,--There are many matters which occupy the attention of the public at the present time, but one of them which particularly concerns no small portion of the…

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