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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
3,961 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 199
Sir—Now that the referendum on the Convention Bill has been fixed for June 3rd, it may not be out of place to call the attention of the voters of New South Wales to the 90th section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. Bull, M.L.A., introduced a deputation of the residents of the Wilton district to the Minister for Works, who urged the necessity of a bridge across the Nepean at Douglas Crossing. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Weston-road, which has been "a bone of contention" between the Minister for Works and the Balmain council, will be the subject discussed at a public meeting to be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BULLI, Monday.—A shocking accident occurred on the railway about 10.40 this morning, when the 8.30 train from Sydney ran over an old gentleman on the trestle bridge, a little to the north of the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →ON Thursday last the children attending the above school (which was successfully established a few months ago by Mrs. Pyatt, the present superintendent, who was ably assisted in that direction by Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A New York mechanical expert has devised an instrument which enables a bicycle rider to ascertain the exact topographical characteristics of a road. The rider may pedal as fast or slow as he pleases,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The railway traffic returns show an increase of 21,000 passengers earned as compared with the number on Easter Monday last year; but as the conditions of each holiday were much the same, and…
Continued on Trove, page 833 →An accident which might have had serious results occurred on one of the Balmain trams, which reached the city last evening about 7.45. The tram was approacling Neton-road. when one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Of the 60,000,000 or more passengers carried every, year by the elevated railways of New York, there are not one dozen who know from whose brain emanated the scheme of building…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The sectional committee, in their report to the Public Works Standing Committee, recommended that the Byrock to Brewarrina railway should he constructed, on the condition that the rents of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the Parramatta Police Court on Wednesday Daniel Gallagher and Frederick Stephenson were charged with on the 11th of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—When I read your account of the meeting held in the Town Hall on Friday evening, I was surprised that none of the speakers suggested aplatform at the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A FEW particulars have been published of an accident to the Northern train on Monday night, but from the facts which have been related to us it seems that there was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following handicaps have been declared for the races to be held at Lille Bridge to-night:- Fourteen Hands Handicap, 4 furlongs.—Spee, 9st 6lb; Pride, 9st 5lb; Sailor, 9st 4lb; Siren, 8st 6lb; Reliable,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The members of the Balmain Club held a three miles road race on Saturday. over a course from Enfield to Bankstown. There was a large attendance of members, and were in splendid condition an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A railway accident occurred here lest night, when a cleaner named George White was run over by an ending. There were two sections of the mail train running late. The ending attached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A resident of Mosman Bay writes : "On Saturday night a disgraceful eight presented itself at Mosman's Bay. The 11 o'clock steamer from Sydney was met with the electric motor only no trailing car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The actual work of breaking up George-street for the purpose of laying down the [?]lectric tramway was begun by the contractors this morning at the railway end. of the Harrisi-street section…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very painful accident happened here to-night to a lad named George White, emplayed as a cleaner in the locomotive department. There were two divisions of the mail train, which was running late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very handsomely illuminated framed address was presented to Mr. A. Crawford last night, at the Imperial Hotel, by the railway staff of the LismoreTweed railway line, on his retirement. Mr…
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