Crushed by a Railway Truck
While passing across the railway line at Darling Harbour to-day a carter named Jas. Stapleton, 50 years of age, who lives at No. 164 Young-street, Redfern, failed to notice the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1898
3,961 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 199
The George-street Tram. An Erroneous Impression
An impression has got abroad that the George-street tramway construction is being carried out under the direction of the Railway Commissioners, that the thoroughfare…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The George-street Tramway
Mr. Young hopes to have the electric tramway along George and Harris streets completed by the end of the year. Operations have been delayed owing to the electric machinery not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Ashton at Hay. Federation and Riverina. the Railways and Rivers Questions. Determined Opposition to the Bill
HAY, Wednesday.--Mr. James Ashton, member for the district, addressed a monster meeting here last night in criticism of the Convention Bill. The Mayor presided. The audience was a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tasmania. a Railway Porter Killed
HOBART, Wednesday.--James O'Brien (30), a porter, while uncoupling a truck at Evandale Junction missed his footing and fell on the rails. The tender passed over his chest, killing him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bile Beans Again Successful. a Lambton Resident Cured. Biliousness, Headaches, and Insomnia. a Letter of Gratitude. Pains Disappear, Sleep Returns, and Headaches Are of the Past. Young-road, Lambton, Newcastle, March 14, 1898. To the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company, Sydney. Gentlemen —
For some time past I have been suffering from a variety of ailments — mostly biliousness and headaches, combined with pains in the chest and between the shoulders. I was often unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The George-street Tramway Plant
A war between two modern nations has ramifications which are not obvious at first sight. No one would have supposed that there could be any connection between the George-street tramway and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Fire at Narellan. Creamery Sawmill and Tram Station Destroyed
CAMDEN, Thursday.--A fire at Narellan caused the total destruction of the Narellan Creamery, sawmills, and tramway station at 2 o'clock this morning. A workman employed by Mr. Nott at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Proposed Neutral Bay Tramway
Residents of Neutral Bay have been agitating assiduously and earnestly for an electric tram to run from the steamer's central landing-stage and connect with the Military-road line. Mr. Young…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Train Collides with a Mail Coach. ALBURY April 18
Intelligence received from Chiltern states that an accident occurred there to-day. The goods train from Melbourne, which reaches Wodonga at 1 o'clock, had almost arrived at Chiltern, when it ran…
Continued on Trove, page 890 →Klondyke Goldfields. Lawlessness on the Road
'According to all accounts (says the "Evening Standard,") the state of lawlessness, violence, and crime that prevails on the United States side of the boundary line near the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Thornleigh — Dural Road to the Editor
Sir,— A great deal has been said about the course taken by Parramatta people in advocating a Dural railway route when the Rosehill one was being considered ; and it…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In the Bad Old Days. "The Knights of the Road."
NO sketch of Australian history would be complete without some reference to the "Knights of the Road," as the bushrangers have been poetically described; but the great majority of the accounts…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Railway Institute. a Difficulty Settled
An important matter which has been troubling the members and those connected with the Railway Institute was practically settled last night. It had been evident for some time past that the present building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramping the Worm
RAMPING the World on an Empty Pocket" has a capital ring about it for a fairy tale. It represents an effort,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The British South Africa Company. Speech by Mr. Cecil Rhodes. Grievances in the Transvaal. a Railway to Lake Tanganyika. London, April 22
At the annual meeting of the British South Africa Company, held yesterday, Mr. Cecil Rhodes and Mr. J. R. Maguire were elected directors. Mr. Alfred Beit,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Subsidence in Block 14. Interruption to Railway Traffic. Broken Hill
This morning at 7.30 o'clock a subsidence occurred in the southern section of Block 14 mine, the extent of which, however, has not yet been determined Yesterday the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →An Arctic Railway
The first railroad running to a port on the Arctic Sea is the continuation of the Vol[?]gda Railway, in Russia, which is now finished to the port of Archangel, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Institute
The Railway Institute shows a marked increase in its rate of progress during this year as compared with previous years. The accommodation is taxed to such an extent as…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Singleton to Parramatta Railway
At its last meeting the Marsfield Council received a letter from the Hyde Council, asking what action it proposed to take with regard to u request that the proposed Singleton Railway be constructed via Glenorie,…
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