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Railways, roads & transport, 1894

4,418 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 221

Cheap Railway Fares

Evening News · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 3

With a view to popularising the pleasure resorts of the southern district the Railway Commissioners have made an acceptable concession in regard to fares from Mittagong to Moss Vale…

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Redfern Railway Hay Market. Farm Produce

Evening News · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 6

At the Bedfern railway terminus on Tuesday, there was a good supply of forage and potatoes from the numerous stations along the northern, southern, and western lines;…

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Deuiliquin-Moama Railway Co

Evening News · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 5

DENILIQUIN, Wednesday.— At the 39th half-yearly meeting of the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company yesterday it was shown that the total revenue for the half-year was over…

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Railway Retirement. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 6

Mr. Jacks, the Chief Locomotive Inspector of Railways, retires after 30 years nervine,…

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Victorian Railway Freights. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Wednesday 7 February 1894 · page 6

The vexed question of railway freights and fares is to be considered by the Cabinet immediately. Returns on the question are now being prepared…

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Star's Special Cables Railway Disaster. Collision in France. Three Passengers Killed Ten Others Badly injured. A Case of Goods Falls From a Train -- A Train Blocked -- And a Second Train Collides. London, February 7

The Australian Star · Thursday 8 February 1894 · page 5

Telegrams from Paris give particulars of a remarkable railway disaster which has occurred near Compiegne, in the north of France. By some…

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The Be[?]croft Bridge. Deputation to the Minister

The Australian Star · Thursday 8 February 1894 · page 6

A deputation consisting of residents of Beecroft, introduced by Mr. Furnell, M.L.A., waited on the Hon. W. J. Lyne, Minister for Works, this morning, to ask…

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The Railway Revenue

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 February 1894 · page 4

The detailed returns of the railway earnings for January, as already indicated by the Treasury receipts, have shown a large decrease. The quarterly report, although…

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The Simplon Railway Tunnel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 February 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday Night.--The Swiss Federal Council has approved of the construction of a railway across the Simplon Pass, the principal feature of which will…

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The Beecroft Bridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 2

The Minister for Works was waited upon yesterday by a deputation consisting of residents of Beecroft, introduced by Mr. F. Farnell, M.L.A., who asked for the construction of an overhead bridge…

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New Lambton Road and Adamstown Tram Line

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 2

Yesterday Mr. T. Walker, M.L.A., with Mr. Edden, and the Mayors of New Lambton and Adamstown, waited on Mr. Lyne and asked him to grant a sum of money to repair the road from…

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Road V. Rail

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 5

PARKES, Thursday.--Leading storekeepers here consider that now a reduction of railway charges to main line rates has been made on the Molong, Forbes, and Parkes line, the…

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Erskine Ville. Wooden Bridge Crossings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 3

A meeting was held in the local Town Hall on Monday evening. Presents—The Mayor (Alderman James Peake), and Aldermen Carter, Harris, Tucker, Wilson, Anderson, Jacobsen, and Glencross…

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Railway Excursions

Evening News · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 2

A. round trip excursion up the Hawkesbury to Windsor and back is arranged for Monday next, the 9 a.m. train taking passengers from Sydney to Hawkesbury. On Tuesday a steamer trip will…

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North Coast Railway

The Australian Star · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The Minister for Works, in reply to questions by Mr. Young, stated in the Assembly yesterday that the present distance by the northern line from Sydney to…

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Railway Excursion

The Australian Star · Friday 9 February 1894 · page 6

Attention is directed to the announcement by the Railway Commissioners regarding a special round trip excursion between Sydney and Windsor. On Monday, February 12…

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Deputations. Paddington Roads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 7

Mr. J. C. Neild, M.L.A. introduced a deputation from the Municipal Council ot Paddington to the Minister for Lands yesterday morning, the object being to ask that Cambridge-street might be…

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Government Grants for Roads

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 4

The circular recently issued by the Works Department, stating that in future no grants for main or minor roads shall be made until a certificate has been received…

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Death of a Roads Officer. Lismore

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 February 1894 · page 5

Mr. H. G. Murray, roads superintendent for this district, died yesterday afternoon after a severe illness of five weeks' duration from typhoid fever. Deceased was quite a…

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