Deputations. an Overhead Bridge Wanted
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 13
A deputation representing the Paddington Municipal Council, was introduced to the Railway Commissioners by Mr. C. W. Oakes, M.L.A., yesterday, to ask that a subway or overbridge should be…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →District Court. (Before Judge Backhouse and a jury of four.) a Tram Accident. Kendall v. the Railway Commissioners
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 4
Mr. Roliu, instructed by Messrs. Fitzhardinge, Son, and Houston, appeared for the plaintiff, Georgina Kendall; Mr. Scholes, instructed by Mr. J. C. Thom, appeared for the defendants. In this case…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways and Tramways As Usual
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 5
On Inquiry from the Railway Department yesterday, it was ascertained that the commissioners did not propose to observe the day in any special way. This was owing to the fact that the general…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Tramway Accident. Damages Against the Railway Commissioners
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 10
In the District Court, before Judge Backhouse and a jury of four, Georgian Kendall, wife of Joseph Kendall, of Little Arthur-street, North Sydney, sued the Railway Commissioners for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tram Accident at North Sydney. Action for £200 Damages
Evening News · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 3
Before Judge Backhouse and a jury, in the District Court yesterday, Georgina Kendall, wife of Joseph Kendall, of Little Arthur-street, North Sydney, brought an action against the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cheap Railway Excursions
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 12
Also in The Australian Star, The Daily Telegraph
The Railway Commissioners announce that a series of special cheap excursion trains will be run to and from the country during the month. The excursions from the country will permit of the residents in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Country News. Washaways on the Railway. Narrow Escape of the Brisbane Express. Glen Innes
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 6
The Brisbane express had a narrow escape from a serious accident between Aberdeen and Scone. A rain storm caused several washaways, and one was very bad, the rails and sleepers being suspended for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Subterranean New York. Railway Tunnelling
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 5
Our New York correspondent on February 1 wrote:—"A French novel of half a century ago— 'The World as it will be'—pictured the people of a great city as living in great part in tunnels and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Railway Service
The Australian Star · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 2
Mr. Lonsdale, M.L.A., waited upon the Railway Commissioners yesterday on behalf of the Armidale Chamber of Commerce to ask that an improved train service might…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cab and Tram Collision. Claim for £2000 Damages
The Australian Star · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 3
In Banco Court yesterday afternoon one Michael Hogan sued the Railway Commissioner to recover £2000 for injuries sustained in a collision between a train and a cab…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Extensions
The Australian Star · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 3
The Balmain tramway extension from the existing terminus to Darling-street East, which was started a week ago, is making good headway. Great satisfaction is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tramway Fraternity
The Australian Star · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 6
For the benefit of Edward Brogan, of Newtown, the electric car driver, who recently lost his sight, upwards of £300 has now been handed in. The lists sent out on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Tramway Excursion
The Australian Star · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 7
The managers of railway stores in the other States who are now holding a conference in Sydney were invited by Mr. M'Lachlan, Secretary for Railways, to a."trolley card party."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Tramway Case. Verdict for £200
The Australian Star · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 7
The hearing of the action in Which Mrs. Kendall is suing the Railway Commissioners for £200 damages for injuries sustained through an accident on the North Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Are Tramcars Hackney Carriages?
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 7
The Full Court was engaged all to-day hearing arguments on an appeal brought by the Metropolitan Tramway and Omnibus Company against the decision of the justices that hackney carrlago…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The North Shore Tram. to the Editor
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 4
Sir.--I should like, through the medium of your columns, to ventilate a grievance felt by a number of North Sydney business people through the somewhat irregular running of the morning trams…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germany's Great Railroad. Some Facts About the Grand Mesopotamian Railway Scheme
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 11
Hitherto railways in Turkey have been little more than fragmentary samples of the great systems to come. In the whole Empire there are only 3000 miles of railroad, rather more than…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Carters on Railway Works
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1902 · page 5
Yesterday a deputation, consisting of Messrs. A. Camoron and T. H. Thrower, officers of the Labor Council, waited on the Minister for Works regarding an increase in the into paid to tip-carters…
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