Railway Commissioners at Wellington. Wellington
The Railway Commissioners passed through here yesterday by special train en route for Sydney. A large number of the townspeople, together with the town…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1895
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Police Courts the Railway Thefts
At the Redfern Court yesterday, before Mr. James Giles, S.M., John Yates (49) was charged, on remand, with being concerned with another in stealing 40lb…
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Sir,--In the appointment of Railway Commissioners, I presume economy was not lost sight of, and that now no more hands are employed than are actually required, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Commissioners in the West. Presentation at Dubbo. Mr. Eddy on Railway Management
BURRO, Thursday.--The Railway Commissioners arrived here from Bourke this morning, when an address was presented by the Mayor, on behalf of the municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Explosion. Railway Trucks Loaded with Giant Powder. 75 Persons Killed--100 Injured
LONDON, Wednesday, 1 p.m.--From New York it is reported that a fearful explosion has occurred at Butte City, Montana Territory…
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AUCKLAND, Thursday.--In order to encourage the fruit industry, the Government has determined to carry fruit on the railways at a uniform rate, irrespective of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatalities and Accidents. Run Over by a Tram
The City Coroner yesterday held an inquest on the body of John Kelly, the man who was, on Tuesday night, run over by a Glebe Point tram at the intersection of…
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The postal authorities have under consideration the question of fixing postal boxes or bags to tram cars, so that the dispatch of correspondence from the…
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The Railway Commissioners returned last evening from their inspection along the northern and north-western lines. They also travelled over the proposed railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rear-Admiral Bridge
On Wednesday the 9th, Rear-Admiral Cyprian Arthur George Bridge, who is relieving Vice-Admiral Bowden-Smith on the Australian station, arrived by the R.M.S. Ballaarat. The new…
Continued on Trove, page 131 →Railways and Tramways Quarterly Report. Satisfactory Figures
The report of the Railway Commissioners on the railways and tramways for the quarter ended December, 1894, has been forwarded to the Minister for Railways, Mr. G. H. Reid. The state of the traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Railways and Tramways. Quarterly Report. Increased Revenue. Decreased Expenditure
The railways and tramways report for the quarter ended December 31 last has just been issued. It shows that the revenue from the railways for the 1894 quarter was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Wombeyan Caves. a Holiday Trip. Cyclists on the Road. The Run From Goulburn--A. Cave Concert-Hall
A party of the Redfern Bicycle Club, consisting of Messrs B. E. C. Griffith, J. Hayes, J. Starkey, C. Pittman, T. Wearing, F. Landau, and F. Hawley of the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Earnings. [Some of the [?]In Our Late Editions of Yesterday.] X the Commissioners' Report. a Satisfactory Increase
The report of the Rail way Commissioners for the quarter ended December 31, 1894, is to hand to-day. The report shows that on the railways the total revenue has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anniversary Day. Railway Arrangements
The national holiday falling this year on a Saturday trill enable pleasure-seekers to have a couple of days at their disposal, metropolitan visitors to the country being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Free Passes. Explanations Wanted About the "Deadhead" Ladies
Commenting upon the published list of ladies who within the past few years obtained free passes over the New South wales railways, the AGE says:—"The list, which extends over three columns of…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Tramway Postal Bags. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—Truly we live in a Sleepy Hollow. In your valuable journal of this morning appeals a paragraph that "the Postmaster-General has the above under consideration, and is sanguin[?] that a suitable…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Extensive Robberies on the Railways
For some time Railway authorities have missed goods from the trucks on the railways, but since November systematic robbery has been going on, and Darling Harbour, Strathfield, Homebush,…
Continued on Trove, page 119 →Railway from Bourke to Barringun. Barringun
Messrs. Eddy, Oliver, and Fehon, Railway Commissioners, accompanied by Messrs. Deane and Harper, arrived here this morning to inspect the route of the proposed light line of railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 149 →The Aerial Cable Railway
A wire rope tramway for passenger car service over the Tennessee River, at Knoxville, and which is suspended at a height of 350ft. above the water as it reaches tie south side of the river, as shown in our…
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