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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Fourteen hundred Boers at daybreak on January 12 attacked Zuurfontein and Kaalfontein, two railway townships distant respectively 27 and 22 miles from Pretoria…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Brunlees, engineer, representing the Great Western syndicate; Mr. Grove, representing Messrs. Pauling, railway contractors; and Mr. Palmer, representing the Great Western Railway Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A serious collision between a Glebe Point tram and a dray took place shortly before midnight at the intersection of Bridge-road and Glebe-road. It is stated that the dray was crossing the line when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday was the last day upon which nominations were received for the position of employees' representative on the Railway Appeal Board, to be constituted under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] must come," said Sir John Forrest here to an interviewer, referring to the proposed transcontinental line from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie. "It is a matter of a thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has purchased tho Canadian Pacific Navigation Company's fleet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It is encouraging to see that some at least of the municipal councils are moving in the matter of tramway reform. St. Peters Council, among others, has made demands for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The people of Randwick are complaining about the tram service to that suburb, and certainly they have some reason. A meeting at the instance of a number of leading…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Monday.--Sir John Forrest says that the trans-continental railway connecting Port Augusta and Kalgoorlic must come. It is part of the real Federation, he adds forgetful that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The membership of the newly-created Railway Appeal Board will be completed by the end of the month, when the result of a ballot, for the representative of the employees will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The railway passenger traffic on Sunday night was very heavy, in consequence of the return of country people who visited Sydney for the Commonwealth celebrations. On the Southern line…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LITHGOW, Monday.--In addition to the colliery delay previously reported, Oakey Park pit was laid idle for two hours on Friday and four hours on Saturday through scarcity of railway trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon a boy named Albert Sinclair was returning from the city to his Home at 50 Castlereagh-street, Redfern, when he was knocked down by a tram…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Owing to the adverse report of the departmental inspector, the railway from Parramatta to Singleton has been put on the shelf for a time, but those connected with the league in the first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NOTWITHSTANDING the rebuke which the Chief Railway Commissioner thought fit to administer to the deputationists who last week asked for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.--At the Police Court yesterday two young men, Walter Harris and Joseph Rose, were committed for trial, clanged will having obstructed a public road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Emperor William has placed the military railway from Berlin to Zossen at the disposal of a company experimenting with electric trains, and it is hoped to obtain a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attention was directed in the "Evening News" on Tuesday to the fact that the North Sydney trams lately have been missing boats during the business trips. Inquiries made since go to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday afternoon Messrs. Dick (chairman), Levien, Macfarlane, Shepherd, Hyam, and Watson, members of the Public Works Committee, accompanied by Mr. T. W. Taylor, member for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In reference to the Rosehill-Carlingford Railway, which was purchased by the Government, and for which a sum of money was placed on the last estimates to enable…
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