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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A serious accident occurred near the Ar[?]cliffe Railway Station shortly before six o'clock yesterday morning by which Mr. George Sackville Ridley lost his life. It appears that after passing the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commissioners arrived at Colf's Harbour at 3 p.m. on Saturday. They inspected the harbour and jetty, and took evidence respecting the district's capabilities and industries…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shortly after 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon a man named Alee Kelly, aged 31, living in Abercrombiestreet, Golden Grove, met with a serious tram accident at the corner of Oxford and Flinders streets. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The railway tragedy between Arnc[?]ffe and Rockdale yesterday, involving the death of George Sackville Ridley, an official of the Auditor- General's Department, was the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →If there is one subject more than another which should try the patience of our Railway Commissioners it is the recurring affliction of persons petitioning for special…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In order to clear the books of some of the many applicants who have applied for positions in the railway service, members of the staff committee visited Goulburn yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A correspondent writes:--"Under present conditions, it would seem that a suggestion which would enable the Railway Commissioners to add considerably to the tramway revenue would be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Commissioners expect to have electric traction in use on the eastern suburbs' tram lines about July next. Much of the preliminary work in connection with the conversion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The over-crowded nature of the trams running to the eastern suburbs between 5 and 7 p.m. was referred to at the Paddington Council meeting last night by Alderman White. Not only were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, February 4.—A terrible blizzard occurred in Canada. Snow fell for 60 hours. The roads and the railways are blocked,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, December 27.--The Christmas season is generally marked by some railway catastrophe of magnitude, and that through which we have just passed was, unhappily, no exception to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A storm dislocated the railway and the telegraph traffic between the Great Lakes of America and the Atlantic. Snow blocked the railways and stopped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →John Thompson slipped off a ballast train 15 miles from Inverell, and crushed his foot badly. He was brought in to the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, February 4, 2.25 p.m.—A supply train has been held up by the raiders in the [?]radock district, Cape Colony, and partly burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S. J. Robinson won the eighteenth annual race for the ten miles Championship of the Salford Harriers, run at Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, on December 21. He won by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A supply train was held up by Boers in the Craddock district, and was partly burnt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Parramatta Police Court on Monday afternoon, before Mr. T. E. MacNevin, P.M., George Mobbs, son., Mary Mobbs, and Alfred Mobbs were charged on the complaint of Percy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →JUNEE, Tuesday Afternoon.—News has just come to hard that a girl named Crowe, residing at Mitta Mitta, near this town, has been brutally outraged by a tramp…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—It is only repeating a very general opinion to say that Sydney's tram system is about as near perfection as we will find in a globe trot. The officials ere smart and civil, end thoroughly up to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—Unfortunately, it is only too true that the above-named heading too aptly fits the nature of the undertaking projected by Mr. O'Sullivan. The locality in question is a secluded one, situate…
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