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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
5,107 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250
In the olden time the two halves of Parramatta Park, which are divided by the river, used to be connected by a footbridge, but when that yielded to the pressure of circumstances and floodwaters, it was never replaced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Minister for Works is calling for tenders for the new Pyrmont Bridge to be erected across Darling Harbour, and to take the place of the bridge which has now been in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BOWRAL, Friday. -- Residents of the Upper Burragorang are anxiously expecting some results from the Department of Public Works relative to the opening of a new road from there to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A telegram from Port Elizabeth, South Africa, dated January dated January 19, to the Natal "Mercury" of January 20 says: On Tuesday night a respectable colored woman, Katie Madola, with her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON arriving at the Royal Hotel, [?]erilderie, Ned Kelly, addressing the hotelkeeper, said:—"Now, sir, I will do you no barm as long as you carry out my whishes. I have come to stick-up the bank, and…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Hen Editor hacked off a hunk of his own home-made damper with the yard axe, and artistically laying a singed chop on it, proceeded with his bush experiences…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A correspondent of the London "Evening News" wrote lately: "A vagrant acquaintance has just given me an amusing account of the present upset of a section of his unsavory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The race between the Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Chicago and North-Western line fast mail trains, which commenced on the night of the 2nd of January at Chicago, concluded in Omaha…
Continued on Trove, page 415 →Several letters have appeared recently in relation to the fares charged on the Ocean-street trams. The matter was also brought before the Railway Commissioners by a deputation. The suggestion…
Continued on Trove, page 373 →At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last evening it was decided to ask the members for Grafton, the Clarence, Glen Innes and Inverell to urge upon the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A very satisfactory sign of the times is afforded by the railway returns for January. The revenue from the goods traffic for that month was the largest ever received from the same source…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →GRAFTON, Friday. -- The Chamber of Commerce last night decided to apply to the Minister for Works to have Mr. Kennedy's explored route of the Grafton-Glen Innes railway permanently…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Limited, by wire from the general manager, report that the average assays of bulk borings from No. 5 tunnel S.D., for the week ending the 15th…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Minister.for Works on Feb. 8 received two deputations from residents in the vicinity of the proposed railway line from The Rock to Green's Gunyah, one being in favor of the construction of…
Continued on Trove, page 55 →The N.S.W. Commissioners of Railways (Messrs. Oliver, Fehon and Kirkcaldie), at the invitation of the Clyde Engineering Company, paid a visit to the works on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Towards the fag end of the annual meeting of the Gladesville Progress Association on Monday night Mr. E. D. Smith galvanized, the members into renewed energy and eloquence…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir,—Does it not seem a pity that so much energy should be wasted over what must prove a futile attempt to get a railway from Parrammatta to Singleton, when…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →IN an alleged humorous leaderette on Monday last, an evening contemporary suggests that "which next any enterprising journal finds a difficulty in being attractive…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, February 19, 3.30 p.m.—An express train from Mons to Brussels yesterday during a fog ran into and telescoped a train at the Forest Station, near the Belgian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A shocking railway accident is reported from Belgium. The express from Mons to Brussels dashed into a train at Forest Station, Brussels…
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