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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Sir,—A visitor to the Randwick racecourse during the late holidays could not fail to be struck with the poor arrangements for team passengers. The return from the courso to the trains is still worse…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Edinburgh motor-car service is now being taken increased advantage of by the general public of that city, who, at first, were a little coy at trusting themselves on the latest type of street vehicle. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A well-known Parramatta business man, discussing the prospects of the Parramatta-Singleton railway scheme, expressed a very decided opinion in favour of the scheme on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALBURY, Wednesday.--It has been decided to postpone the new Union Bridge opening demonstration until the first week of February, to avoid clashing with the Anniversary Day fetes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The promoters of the bridge-opening demonstration find it impracticable to have it on January 2G The Wodonga Shire Council agrees to join in the movement if a later date is selected. It is now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The Brisbane to Sydney mail train reached Newcastle station to-day four hours and twenty minutes late. The delay was due to a breakdown on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Parramatta Progress Association on Tuesday a letter was read from the Singleton Railway Association, stating that that body had decided to take part in the proposed conference on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Harland and Woolf, the Belfast shipbuilders, are now building a new cargo steamer for the White Star line. This vessel will be of even larger dimensions than the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The additions to the Railway Institute are now approaching completion, and it is stated that the new wing will probably be formally opened on March 14th, that date being the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Gore-hill tramway--which will connect with the existing electric tramway at Falcon-street, and run to the head of Greenwich-road--is to be constructed on the day labor system, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Parramatta Progress Association was held on Friday night, when the letter from Singleton Railway Association agreeing to the date of the proposed conference was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GRENFELL, Wednesday.--At a meeting of the Grenfell Railway League last night, Mr. J. R. Wood, presiding, a request in the form of a resolution passed at a late public meeting, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fat Pigs. —Sinee our last report 1,583 pigs passed through the yards—421 on Friday, 657 on Tuesday, and 505 on Wednesday. Thin supply appeared to be more than equal to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.—Whilst Mr. and Mrs. Cann, old residents of Paterson, were returning there last evening after visiting Maitland, the horse which the former was driving shied,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BLACKHEATH, Friday.—A supposed attempt te wreck a train occurred about a quarter of a mile on the Mount Victoria side of Blackheath yesterday. The passenger train from Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No sales have been held this week, but they will be assumed on the 24th, 25th, and 26th instant, and on the 25th we purpose bringing forward a catalogue of 2,500 bales. We are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BLACKHEATH, Thursday.--What appears to have been an attempt to wreck a train occurred to-day about a quarter of a mile on the Mount Victoria side of Blackheath. The engine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mail train from Brisbane, which was due here at 8.5 this morning, did not arrive until 12.15 p.m., being four hours and 20 minutes behind time. The railway officials state…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Recetly the Redfern Council complained to the Railway Commissioners of a nuisance occasioned by the excessive whistling of tram motors in Cleveland-street at an early hour of the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEWCASTLE, Friday.—The Railway Commissioners, who arrived last night, wens out at the Dyke and Hamilton works this and met a deputation from the Newscastle Council at…
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