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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Further consideration was given yesterday by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works to the proposed construction of a line of railway from Tarago to Braldwood…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A deputation, introduced by Mr. W[?] M.P., waited upon the State Minister for Works (Mr E. W. O'Sullivan) yesterday to urge the construction of a tramway extension from Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. F. E. Winclicorabe, M.P., introduced a deputation representative of Asbfield and Petersham to the State Minister for Works (Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan) yesterday, with the request that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Commissioner for Public Works. has given instructions to the Engineer-in-Chief to have all preparations made for commencing a permanent survey of the proposed railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Leahy, the State Minister for Railways, today. replying to a deputation, who asked for the construction of a railway from Clermont to Blair Athol, said it was necessary to do something with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE question of a bridge over Sydney Harbor, connecting the city with North Shore, has of late…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A gentleman standing upon the Sydenham platform saw the train, to which the accident happened, pass, and be gives it as his opinion that the express passed at a greater speed than is accident, and had to walk past the Tempe Station, states that, as be passed along, the sleepers seemed to him to bare a greater spring than is usual. Another passenger, who left in the 4.40…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →After being free from a serious railway accident for a considerable time, Sydney was startled on Friday evening to bear of a terrible disaster on the Illawarra line, near the Sydenham…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"How the accident occurred I do not know," was the greeting from Engine-driver Matthew Doyle. "I have been a driver on that line for the last eight or nine years, and know every inch…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A remarkable escape was experienced by a young man named Thomas Foster, engineer, working at Station-street, Sydney, and living at Sydenham…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Last evening a few minutes past 6 o'clock, the 5.55 p.m. fast train, Sydney to Hurstville, was wrecked just outside Sydenham station. The wreck was caused by the engine leaving the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →One of those awfully sudden disasters which sometimes plunge a community into dismay and mourning occurred yesterday evening on the Illawarra railway line between Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The disaster, Mr. Oliver remarked, was one of those events that the most careful provision, the most exacting safeguards, could not prevent…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE Quirindi Farmers and Settlers' Association complain that the provision made for the storage of wheat at Darling Harbour, Sydney, is totally inadequate to protect the goods from bad weather…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →The ballot for the election of a representative of the railway employees on the new Appeal Board has been concluded. There were 22 candidates, and over 12,000 votes were recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The question of a daily tram service along Cleveland-street to Moore Park was before the Redfern Council again on Thursday night. Some time ago the Randwick Council, in response to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A shooking accident resulting in the instantaneous death of Charles M'Cartney, a gate-keeper at Holmes-street railway crossing, Ballarat, took place shortly before 6 o'olock this evening M'Cartney, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The terrible accident on the Illawarra suburban railway line, which occurred yesterday evening, and of which a full account appears elsewhere, will call forth the warmest…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A cleverly planned robbery wes reported to-day, which resulted in a loss to the Railway Department if £152 10s in gold, silver, copper, and notes, two cheques, and other small amounts. As the safe at the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A meritorious motor cycle ride was accomplished at the end of last week on the Western district roads (Vic.), by H. B. James and S. H. Day, the wellknown Melbourne printer. The motor used was a…
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