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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
6,238 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 250
In order that the fullest and most efficient B inquiry may be made into the cause of the dreadful railway disaster on the Illawarra line the City Coroner has secured the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir William Lyne has sent letters of sympathy to the friends of persona killed and injured in the Sydenham railway disaster. The Premier, who is also Minister for Railways,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The result of the ballot of the railway employees for a seat on tho Railway Appeal Board is that Mr. T. D. Richards, who is employed in the locomotive construction branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The town clerk reported to the Newcastle Council last night that on Saturday Mr. Allworth (Surveyor-General) and Mr. Smith (his successor at Maitland) called and gave him a verbal notice…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, P.M., the boy Ross, who is charged with having shot a railway employee named E. Cater from a passing train on February…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Monday.--The Russo-Chinese Bank has undertaken to construct for China the Lake Baikal to Port Arthur line of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Upon inquiries being made at the Prince Alfred Hospital last night, we learned that, with the exception of the driver, Matthew Doyle, all the patients in that institution are improving…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—The accident on Friday last points to the necessity for calling attention to the state of the line on the Western or Mountain railroad at one or two places. I refer to the line as it approaches…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Numbers of persons have volunteered testimony as to what happened, many of them having been about the locality at the time the accident occurred. One of these, who was waiting at the crossing for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A force of Boers, while attempting to cut the railway line at Bank station, near Johannesburg, had three men killed and 23 wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—In your issue of the 13th instant I notice a letter from "Southern Line," directing the attention of the Railway Commissioners to the mischief caused by sparks from engines setting fire to grass and fances…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Russo-Chinese Bank has undertaken to construct for China a line of railway from the trans-Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal to Port Arthur, the Russian naval station in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BERRY, Tuesday.--The evening mixed train, which leaves Nowra at 5.10 p.m., does not arrive in Sydney till late at night, and some, who are compelled to travel by this train, think it should…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Minister for Works has received a report from his officers, concerning the new lines of railways and tramways, as follows:- Three surveyors are engaged upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Minister for Works has received a report from his officers concerning the new lines of railways and tramways as follows:—Three surveyors are engaged upon the Narrabri-Walgett railway. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The State Minister for Works has received the following report concerning the new lines of railways and tramways:-- Three surveyors are engaged upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, February 19, 2.25 p.m.-The correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that an extensive expedition is being organised at Pretoria to expel the Boers from Petersburg and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Lord Kitchener has returned to Pretoria. He reports that Commandant De Wet, after his crushing defeat at Zand Drift, was located 70 miles west of Hopetown,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. H. M'Lachlan (secretary to the Railway Commissioners), in conversation with an "Evening News" reporter yesterday, said that the commissioners had given instructions that all…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On inquiry at Prince Alfred Hospital this morning, an "Evening News" representative was informed that all the patients, including Doyle, the engine-driver, were progressing favorably…
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