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Railways, roads & transport, 1894

4,418 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 221

The North Shore Electric Tramway

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1894 · page 3

Mr. J. F. Cullen, M.P., introduced a deputation of the residents of Mosmans yesterday morning to Mr. Lyne, Minister for Works, with the object of urging upon him…

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Railway Disaster. Fifteen Passengers Burned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1894 · page 5

London, Thursday, 1 p.m.—A passenger train collided yesterday with a petroleum train at Samara, in Russia. Both trains caught fire, and 15 passengers wore burned…

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The North Shore Electric Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1894 · page 4

A deputation of the residents of Mosman waited upon Mr. Lyne, the Minister for Public Works, yesterday, to urge upon him the desirability of extending the North…

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Utilising Railway Enclosures

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1894 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon Mr. See was asked by Mr. Collins whether he would, in view of the fact that the railways of the colony ran through some…

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Deputations. Extension of the North Shore Electric Tramway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 January 1894 · page 3

An influential deputation of residents of Mosman yesterday morning waited upon the Minister for Works (Mr. W. J. Lyne), and urged him to at once proceed with the extension of the electric tramway…

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The Yictoria Bridge

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 18

WEST MAITLAND, January 19— Last night a meeting of residents of West Maitland was held in the Town Hall for the purpose of taking steps to urge upon the Minister for Public Works, Mr. W…

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Illawarra Train Service

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 177

With reference to better train accommodation for the suburbs of Penshurst and Oatley, oil the Illawarra line, Mr. J. H. Carruthers, M.L.A., recently presented a petition, numerously signed,…

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Smithfield and Fairfield. Hamilton-road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 5

A meeting was held on Wednesday, Present: The Mayor (Alderman Dowme) and Aldermen Dale, Valience, Spring, Stimson, and Anthony. The Lands Department wrote with reference to the…

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Cable Messages. The Unemployed. Laborers Pillaging Farms. Armed Bodies on the Roads

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 11

LONDON, January 18— The distress in the vicinity of Cadiz, Spain, is so great that bands of starving laborers have obtained arms and are pillaging the farms and shops.,…

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From Information Received. Slumborough - Road Mystery. Mike Doolan and the Murder. A Wife's Evidence--Why the Police Did Not Prosecute for Murder --The Law of Evidence

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 9

The Slumborough-road mystery was a murder. A cruel murder perpetrated for the sake of gain upon a defenceless old man. And no one was louder in denouncing it at…

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Railway Ambulance Corps

Nepean Times · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 6

A meeting of the Railway and Tramway Ambulance Corps was held in the Church of England Schoolroom on Wednesday evening last, Mr. Colly, Loco Inspector, in…

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The Teams versus the Railways. a Local Carrier Starts

Nepean Times · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 3

As stated in our issue last week a local man has commenced with his teams to compete with the Railway. Commissioners. Although many business men have recognised…

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The Tramways

Evening News · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 3

The tramway traffic was not so great as it usually is on holidays. The special trams which were ran did not fill at all well. The traffic to Coogee during the day was to the extent of about…

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Railway Mismanagement

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 9

THE Molbourne AGE exultantly trampters & further find of a damaging character concerning Victorian railway administration under the late commissioners. It seems that the Minister for…

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Special Cables. From the Herald's London Correspondents. Railway Disaster in Russia. Fifteen Passengees Buened. London, Jan. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 9

A terrible railway disaster is reported to have taken place in East Russia. A passenger train came into collision with a petroleum train at Samara, on the…

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The Railways. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 5

Sir,—In last Friday's issue the following appears: —"If the change from wool-growing to wheatgrowing which has been going on in some parts of our territory should extend over a wide area, and a…

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Tramway Traffic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 7

The tramway traffic yesterday was not so good financially as it usually is on holidays. The dull morning seemed to stop people from leaving their homes The consequence was that the special trams…

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Railway Traffic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 7

The railway traffic yesterday did not compare at all favourably with that of the same day of last year. In the returns for the whole traffic there was a decrease in the number of passengers carried of 11,257…

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Proposed Tramway to Castle Hill

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 171

A well-attended public meeting was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Castle Hill, on the 18th inst., to consider the matter recently taken up in Parramatta, of constructing a tramway from Parramatta…

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Proposed Narrabri to Moree Railway

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1894 · page 171

Mr. Garrard laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday the report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on the proposed railway from. Narrabri to Moree…

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