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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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STRANGE EVIDENCE BY AN EXAMINER. MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A departmental inquiry into the railway collision at Inglewood on Monday last is being conducted at Inglewood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What must have been a shocking disaster was very narrowly averted at Surrey-hills late last night. A goods ongino with an exceptionally heavy load behind tried in vain to ascend the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →V. A., Mount Victoria: (1.) It rarely pays to double unless you can fairly hope to make six tricks, with your own cards, for you must not expect much from your partner. (2.) It is not safe…
Continued on Trove, page 57 →At the last meeting of the Pymble Progress Association, a good deal of attention was given to the condition of the roads of the district, and it was resolved, on the motion of the Rev. P…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A special train has been put on between Parramatta and Granville (calling at Harris Park) to cope with the heavy traffic on Saturday nights. For some time the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,— A week or two ago I noticed a letter from a correspondent signing himself "D.B.A.," to the effect that better means of communication between what may be termed the Darling Point and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, February 14, 2.35 p.m.—Three residents of Adelaide, who were travelling by the night express from Paris to Marseilles, were chloroformed and robbed by two thieves, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Department of Public Works has is sued a report on "Railway and Tramway Matters in Europe," furnished by the principal assistant engineer in the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Copy of a report on "Railway and Tramway Matters in Europe," furnished to the Minister by Mr. C. O. Burge, Principal Assistant-Engineer in the Railway Construction Branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Friday of last week, at about twenty minutes past one o'clock, a fatal railway accident happened almost opposite the village of Gladstone, about a mile and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The graphic descriptions of the incidents of railway travel in Siberia and Manchuria, lately given by a correspondent journeying through those regions, is curiously emphasised by a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lavy Woolfe, a tailor, 56, living at 27 Gurner-street, Paddington, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday afternoon for treatment for injuries received when alighting from a tram in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A mobile hospital—a "trolley car" with all the appliances of a depot for the sick—will be one of the features of Baltimore. The scheme is to have the hospital car every in readiness for a call; that…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The new railway carriage of the King of the Belgians has just left the workshops of the Compagnie des Wagons-Lits. It is of teak wood, with gold mouldings. It comprises a Louis Seize…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Motor quadrilles are is the air. An American lady has introduced this item at one of her balls, each lady and gentleman going through the figures in a smart little-motor. Needless…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The construction of the Cape to Cairo railway northwards from Bulawayo towards the Zambesi River, a distance of approximately 300 miles, has already been commenced. The photograph reproduced here from a drawing shows the gorge through which the Zambesi flows a short distance below the Victoria Falls, and the proposed bridge which will carry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An amusing accou of a trip from Garstang Junction to Garstang Town by the Garstang and knott End Railway Company's train, is gives by the fanciers paper…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—In a letter to the "Sydney Morning Herald" of 8th instant a correspondent, signing himself or herself "Advance," refers to a suggested mono railway between Edinburgh and Galsgow, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A man named L. Woolfe, who resides at Gurner-street, Paddington, was Knocked off a tram in Oxford-street yesterday, and sustained a dislocation of an ankle. He was removed to St. Vincent's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On the 1st inst. a railway accident occurred at Grong Grong on the South-Western line, when an engine and six trucks were derailed. Three men on the train were bruised and knocked about when the engine, as shown in our picture, left the rails…
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