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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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This map illustrates the alternative, or next best eastern, route for the city railway, recommended by Mr. Rennick, the Engineer-in-Chief for Victorian Railways. In reply to a letter from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SINGLETON, Tuesday.--Mr. John Hayes, the well-known fruitgrower, of Bulga, makes a complaint through the public press of the charges levied by the Railway Commissioners on fruit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, February 24.--One of the most appalling railway catastrophes it has ever been my lot to chronicle occurred shortly after 8 o'clock on Saturday morning at the station of Forest,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One result of Monday's downpour is not so satisfactory as the others, and that is the condition in which it has left some of the roads of the district. It has been pointed out repeatedly that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Owing to the congestion of vehicular traffic at Circular Quay and the danger likely to arise to passengers crossing to and from the various ferry steamers, the Metropolitan Transit Board a few…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Among the entrants for the classic Bordeaux to Paris road race, which takes place in May next, is the name of A. E. Walters, the crack English path and road rider, who is the present holder of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A letter was read at the Transit Commission meeting to-day from the Under-Secretary for Finance and Trade of the 20th ult., stating that the Premier saw no…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A few weeks ago we published the result of the appeal to the Privy Council in regard to a claim made by the official liquidator of the North sydney Investment and Tramway Company on certain…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Commissioners this afternoon received the report of the board appointed to inquire into the recent tramway accident on the Randwick line, when a special tram ran…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Public Works Committee was occupied to-day in taking further evidence on the proposal to construct a railway from Cobar to Wileannia. The details of the scheme had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Several cases of typhoid and dysentery have broken out in the railway camps at Chain of Ponds and Ravensworth, some 14 miles from Singleton. The camps are near the site of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Council of Advice to the Stock Boards waited on the Railway Commissioners yesterday to ask, amongst other things, that the six months' provision relating to the return of starving stock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The board appointed by the Railway commissioners to inquire into the tram accident that took place at Moore Park on Saturday has made its report. The board finds that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The crushes at the platforms of railway carriages on holidays are very trying to the temper of those mixed up in them, and in the case of a young man from Woollahra, named John Jex, a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fat Pigs.—Since our last report of 30th ult, 1,137 pigs have been disposed of Of this number 86 were sold on Thursday, 489 on Tuesday, whilst Wednesday's sale was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A 10-year-old school boy, named S. Byrne, had the misfortune to be run over by a cart this afternoon on Pyrmont Bridge. The lad who was found to have sustained a fracture…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As was anticipated, business this week has been rather brisker, although no alterations in values are to be noted, but supplies of most lines continue large, notably chaff and oats, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →For some time past an extensive movement has been going on in the Penshurst and Como districts, having for its object the provision of additional train service between Hurstville and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No sales will be held until next week, our next auction being fixed for the 11th, when we will bring forward a catalogue of about 500 bales, and we expect to see the market on a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, April 6, 3.50 p.m.-The British Government is studying the question of constructing a railway from Khartoum to Kassala, and thence to the port of Suakim,…
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