Tram Extension
The Mayors of Enfield, Strathfield, Ashfield, and Burwood, together with residents of these districts, were introduced to the Minister for Works yesterday, to ask for an extension of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
5,107 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 250
Shocking Railway Fatality
At the South Sydney Morgue yesterday, the City Coroner conducted an inquest concerning the death of a boy named Edward Henry Browne, who was run over and killed at 6.30 p.m. on the previous evening by a train…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Free Passes
Mr. Willis, M.P., complained in the Assembly last night of poor people who had been sick in town could not get railway passes to their homes in the country. He had recently applied for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The North Shore Tramways
As has been reported, the North Shore tramway from Milson's Point to Ridge-street will be converted from the cable system to the electric system as soon as the power-house at Ultimo is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Adeliade Trams
It is stated on Government authority in political circles that the purchase by the Government of the tramways, which connect Adelaide with its suburbs, will form a leading feature of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newington Bridge
The petition, signatures for which are being canvassed in Auburn, for presentation to the Minister for Works, praying for the construction of the Newington…
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WAGGA, Saturday.—On the Tarcutta-road last night a horse backed a hansom cab over a high embankment. Two passengers, named P. Heffernan and Edgehill, were in the vehicle at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the Wallaby. Bush Roads and Back Tracks—Peter Brown As a Sport—Cumbo Goes to Sleep—We Challenge the Boss—And Take Two Weeks' Wages. About Tramps
"Everybody about here knows me." (bang) shouted Peter Brown, firing his rifle cheerfully into the night. "Everybody knows Peter Brown can fight (bang, bang)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deadheads in the Trams
It is the marvel of the age how the Sydney trams can pay considering the number of deadheads that travel free. Out of twelve who travelled one trip last week…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Soudan. Railway Extension. the Proposed Line Beyond Khartoum. London, March 23
Sir W. E. Garstin, K.C.M.G., the Under-Secretary for Public Works in the Egyptian Government, has during the last eight weeks been engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Proposed Clarence to New England Railway
Messrs. F. A. Wright and Donaldson, Ms.L.A., and Utz (of Glen Innes) waited upon the Minister for Works (Mr. J. H. Young) last week to urge the connection of the Clarence with the tableland to New…
Continued on Trove, page 687 →The Walgett Railway. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")
Sir, -- In your issue of this date appears a telegram from your Walgett correspondent drawing attention to the want of railway communication with that place. Knowing the…
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WALGETT, Friday. -- At a large and representative meeting of Walgett town and district, hold inst night in the school of arts, Mr. J. S. Gordon, of Brewon, chairman, it was unanimously…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New Tram Cars
The Railway Commissioners are having three classes of tramcars built for use on the George-street electric line, for the North Shore lines and for the lines that are to be converted from the steam system. One is the style of enclosed car now in use on the Globe and other steam operated tracks. Passengers and others who have travelled by it will not have been particularly struck probably by its smooth running Almost necessarily, however, it is a type of car not suited to steam traction, being too light for the rough traffic. Under the electric system it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Ambition of Mr. Rhodes. the Trans-african Railway
LONDON, Thursday' Afternoon. -- The London "Daily Chronicle" states that Mr. Cecil Rhodes will forthwith ask Great Britain whether it is prepared to guarantee…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lane Cove and the Railway Line
Not long age a new platform was opened between the St. Leonards and Chatswood stations, on the North Shore railway line, but up to the present it has been shorn of some of its…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In a Crowded Tramway Car
'Conductor!' screamed the angular, sharp-nosed woman in the trolley-car, 'this man is putting his head on my shoulder!' 'He must be asleep, ma'am, or blind,'said…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →How Birds Hinder Railway Traffic
Crows sometimes prove troublesome to railway men. Retiring late, the common (or carrion) crow is often on tho wing with the owl and the bat. An engine driver…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Light as a Motor Power
One of the Vienna papers publishes an interview with M. Szczejpanik, from which it appears that he has constructed an apparatus which Is set in action simply by light. Starting from this…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Tramway to South Head
The residents of Watson's Bay are extremely anxious that some steps should immediately be taken to extend the Rose Bay tramway to South Head, and accordingly a public meeting, having…
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