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Railways, roads & transport, 1895

4,086 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 205

A Railway Grievance

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 6

MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday.--Complaints are being made that the train leaving Lismore three times a week departs at 8 a.m. and returns the same day, so that…

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The Proposed Mallee Railway. Differential Rates and Federation

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 March 1895 · page 5

MELBOURNE. Thursday.--Mr. Francis Rennick, Engineer-in-Chief to the Railway Department, gave evidence before the Railway Committee to-day on the…

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Roads

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 26

In the matter of roads Wyalong has been sadly neglected. During last winter the roads were for weeks at a time practically impassable, and at the best were of…

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Train and Tram Arrangements

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 5

Special train arrangements to enable residents on the suburban lines to witness the funeral have been made. The 12.30 p.m. train from Parramatta will be run through from…

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Lillie Bridge Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 12

The following handicaps have been declared for the races to be held this evening:- PEDES[?]AN HANDICAP, 75 yards.—L. Marsh, W. [?] Williams, scratch; R. D. Layton, D. Braithwaite, W…

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Leap From a Train. Miraculous Escape

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 19

WHEN the train from Portland (Vic.) last Saturday evening had reached four miles on the Hamilton side of Branxhomle a woman was seen falling or jumping out of a carriage window on to the…

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Tee Road-through-the-park Difficulty

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 4

OUR people are once more called to consider the “ evergreen ” question a road through the Parramatta Park, from the town to our western suburbs…

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Robbery in a Train. An Indian Victimised. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 6

The police are investigating the alleged robbery by four men from a hawker named Hulli in the Bendigo train last night. Warrants were issued to-day, and the police…

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The Road Through the Park Public Meeting An Adverse Vote

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 4

A PUBLIC meeting to take into consideration the proposed alienation of a portion of the Parramatta Park, with a view of opening up a direct road to Toongabbie, Wentworthville, est…

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Proposed Road through Parramatta Park. Public Meeting, Parramatta Town Hall. Motion of Protest Carried

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 10

A public meeting convened by the Mayor of Parramatta in reply to a requisition asking him to effort an opportunity for a protest against the proposed construction of a road…

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Redfern Railway Produce Sales. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 12

Sir,—Now that matters concerning the Railway Department and its management are being prominently brought before the Commissioners and the general public by means of your estimable…

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Victoria. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) the Railway Board. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 10

It is reported that Mr. William Cain is on the point of severing his connection with the newlyappointed Railway Board owing to his dissatisfaction at the chairman's (Judge Casey's) method of…

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Her Majesty's First Railway Trip

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 530

Seeing the perfection to which railway travelling has been brought, it is hard to believe in the youthfulness of the locomotive. It seems scarcely credible that the Morning Post of February, 1842,…

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Railway Accident on the Great Zigzag. LITHGOW

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 535

What was dangerously near a startling fatality took place at noon to-day on the Great Zigzag, when a passenger train for Sydney was backing up the incline from the bottom points. The…

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Her Troubles. Woman and the Trams. How She Gets In. Also How She Gets Out

The Bird O' Freedom · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 5

The attention of the "new woman" is directed to the great tram-car question in its relation to the sex. There is room for reform in this matter, as far as gentle…

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Victorian Railways. The Inquiry Board. An Unfounded Report. MELBOURNE

The Australian Star · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 6

A morning paper here published an announcement that Mr. William Cain, one of the members of the newly-appointed Railway Inquiry Board, had resigned. The…

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Selling Tickets on Tramways

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 4

Complaints have frequently been mads that, owing to the additional work in sailing tickets on the tramways, the conductors are scarcely able to cope with much…

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The Milson's Point and Hornsby Railways

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 10

A meeting, attended by delegates from the Hornsby Junction. Thornleigh Carlingfor, East Carlingford, and Beecroft Progress Associations, was held at Beecroft on Wednesday…

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Parramatta Borough Council. More “Compromising” of Arrears. the P. S. Public School Drainage. the Minister Defies the Council. the Tramway Co.’s Rates. Those Storm-water Drains

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 9

The fortnightly meeting of the Borough Council of Parramatta was held at the Council Chambers, on Monday evening. Present: Aldermen Ferris, Taylor, Saunders, Bladon,…

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Field of Mara Tramway. Public Meeting

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1895 · page 2

A large and influential public meeting was held in the Marsfield Council Chambers on the 11th instant, to urge, the Government to construct the promised tram or light railway…

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