Bridge
H. F., Brisbane: In the play of the cards there is nothing more damaging than publishing your wea[?]mess. Every effort should be made to hide is, and it is often well, after trumps are out, to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1902
6,550 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250
Repairs to Roads
THE Hon. J. H. Carruthers has been informed by the Public Works Department, that the application for grants to repair the Belmore-roads…
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THE answer received with regard to necessary repairs to the Great Western Road recently was that the department had nothing to do with it, meaning thereby that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Glebe Island Bridge Embankment
This engineering work is the bete noir of about 50,000 persons who live in Glebe, Annandale, Balmain, etc., for they, rightly or wrongly, hold it responsible for a stench which very often permeates the atmosphere of those localities. The channel from Johnstone's Bay into the Harbor was once very wide, but it occurred, to the authorities that it would be a good thing to level Glebe Island, and use the stone to make a causeway. This work has for some time been in progress, and it is asserted that the water cannot get away [?], and consequently cannot clean away the accumulating organic matter at the bottom. On the other hand,…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →George Willison, Boot and Shoe Emporium, Rocky Point-road
FOR ladies, gent’s and children’s footwear you can’t beat George Willison’s establishment. He sells only good boots, properly made, which are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway and Tramway Men
The quarterly meeting of No. 1, Sydney Branch New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, was held at the Trades Hall, Dixon-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Duplication of the Railway
MUCH has been said and written with regard to the duplication of the railway line from Penrith to Glenbrook, and despite the fact that the Commissioners assert that the old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Same Old Story. Railway Hotel, Scone, N.S.W., Oct. 2. 1901
Dear Sirs,— I have much pleasure in commending the excellence of Warner's Safe Cure. After having suffered from Biliousness for eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Werris Creek—wellington Railway
WELLINGTON, Saturday.—A largely-attended meeting of the Railway League was held in connection with the proposed Werris Creek to Wellington railway. It is highly probable that a big…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Experiments: 100 Miles Per Hour
Latest speed tests upon the German military railway between Berlin and Zossen show that a maximum of 100 miles an hour has been attained. The test is based on the records of…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Trams in Paris
On the 53 tramway lines of Paris and its suburbs, owned by 11 companies, 853 cars are run by mechanical power and 297 by horses. There are 38 electric lines, 19 being operated by…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Largest English Locomotive. a Powerful Express Engine. Built for the North-eastern Railway
Of late years the North-eastern Railway has been well in the lead among English railroads in appreciating the tendency of locomotive development and introducing the most advanced…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our Railways. How They Have Grown. How They Are Worked and the Men Who Work Them. Iii. the Political Period. the Great Trunk Lines of the State. How They Were Built. the First Engine-driver
William Sixmith was the man who drove the first train out of Redfern station. He is one of the identities of the period during which our railways were under political management. He…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railways Loan Expenditure
The loan expenditure proposals of the Railway Department cover £870,000, spread over four years, of which £456,917 is authorised for the current year, comprising £3[?]9,000 for works on existing lines,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Throwing Stones at Trams
James Percy M'Gill, a child under 16 years of age, was proceeded against at the Newtown Police Court yesterday for being found habitually wandering about the street in no…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Willoughby Tram
The Naremburn Progress Association advertises in this issue that a public meeting will be held in the Temperance Hall, Naremburn, on Wednesday evening next, to appoint…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Guard Killed. Orange
A fatal accident occurred at the Orange station this morning, when a railway guard, John Emmett, residing in Seymour-street, Bathurst, was killed. Deceased was engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Sydney Tramway System. Views of an Engineer. Underground Lines Preferred
Mr. B. C. Simpson, the well-known engineer, who has been abroad on a visit to Europe and America, returned to Sydney a week or two ago Asked yesterday for his impressions, be said: --…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Motor Bicycle
Writing of the motor bicycle, an English paper says: -- "Unless we mistake signs there will shortly arrive something like a boom in motor bicycles. Not a financial boom -- we have had enough and to spare of that sort --…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Railway Department. January 20
Sydney. -- Manufacture of four wrought-iron tramway water-sprinklers and underframes. Sydney. -- Supply of signal and interlocking fittings. February 17…
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