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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A survey ig now being made of the route of the Grenfell to Wyalong line, which is one Of the proposals deferred by Parliament to the Public Works Committee. The feasibility of getting the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—A report upon this railway, recently completed, appears in your issue of the 17th instant. By this report tho public are informed that the work was constructed for a sum of £1661 below the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Chillagoe Railway Mines Company's mine manager (Mr. Smith) has arrived upon the field and taken up his residence at Calcifer. Since his arrival several new contracts have been let. As soon as the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →As it is understood that the Minister for Works intends proceeding with the construction of the Koorawatha-Grenfell railway in defiance of the condition of the Act assented to on December 24, a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Commissioners are away from Sydney to-day, on their periodical visit to Newcastle, inquiring into railway matters. The Newcastle council will interview them on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WARIALDA, Thursday.--Great dissatisfaction is felt here at the Minister's decision to exclude Warialda in the Moree-Inverell railway connection, especially as the representations made to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. J. W. Stocks, who has had a great deal of experience with the new motor cars constructed for pacing purposes, has been interviewed concerning the relative merits of human and motor pace, and he is strongly in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Commissioners report that they are very well satisfied with the working of the Narrabri to Moree line. It was intended from the first that this railway should be built at a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the inquiry of the Works Committee on Wednesday in connection with the proposed Government buildings at the corner of Bridge and Phillip streets, some information was elicited in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lying a little off the route the railway to the north will take, if the agitation in its favor is successful, but distinctly within its beneficial influence, Kenthurst is decidedly in favor of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the partial failure of the wheat harvest in parts of the country, more especially in the south-western district, an application was made to the Railway Commissioners for some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An electrified bridge which recently shocked a number of men and horses in Chicago is stated to have received its charge from a broken live wire. This came in contact with the ironwork of a…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →The midnight train out of Redfern, familiarly known as "the drunks' train," is one of Sydney's quaintest institutions. Most people know it by repute; comporatively few by experience. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There seems every probability of the road across Bondi Beach, for which the Waverley aldermen have been so persistently agitating, beings constructed in the near future -- that is, within…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The members of the Burwood Club had intended holding a five miles road race this afternoon, but they have been compelled to postpone the fixture indefinitely on account of the bad state of the road. The road-mender…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Messrs. Oliver, Fehon and Kirkaldie, Railway Commissioners, made an inspection today of the works and improvements connected with their department. They also…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →I netted a handsome commission out of my first experience, and, being naturally enthusiastic, began to indulge in visions of a speedy affluence. For some weeks after my…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONCERNING the commencement of Ned Kelly's great crimes, we saw in our last that Sergeant Kennedy and Constable Scanlan, utterly ignorant that the bushrangers were about, rode back to their…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Thursday last the up passenger train, Orange to Sydney, came to grief between Mount Victoria and Blackheath. The accident happened at a point 73 miles 50 chains from Sydney, where there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In scrutinising a tramp very closely, the good lady of one of the many bearding houses on the Blue Mountains asked, in ley tones:…
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