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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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This latest novelty in railway management should obtain world-wide celebrity. It enables passengers to board or leave a train travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour. Hitherto in Great Britain and America what are known as "slip cars" have been attached to fast trains, and dropped just before the station for which they are destined…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Mr. Usher, of the Railway Department, arrived on Wednesday to inquire into the proposed (Guyra-Inverell railway Much information in regard to the district was given. Mr. Usher lett for Howell and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Negotiations for the purchase by the Government of the Manawatu Railway have abruptly terminated. The secretory of the company has written to the Government stating that the directors have been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Thursday night an accident occurred on the railway line near Blayney by which several goods tracks were derailed and an engine was damaged. While shunting operations were proceeding at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shortly after 3 p.m. yesterday a woman named Maria Theiesa Treweeke, aged 60, was, crossing Pitt-street near the Strand Arcade when she was knocked down by a tram. She was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Goulburn branch of the New South Wales Railway Ambulance Corps is the strongest outside of the metropolis, numbering 146 employees at the present time, the majority of whom also hold the…
Continued on Trove, page 677 →James Brookman, 33 years of age, and who resides in Pitt-street, Sydney, was taken to the Sydney Hospital yesterday suffering from a scalp wound. He was Jumping off a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Maria Theresa Treweeke, 60 years of age, lately residing at "Ingleburn," Grosvenor street, Woollahra, died in the Sydney Hospital About 9 o'clock last night. About. 3…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some time ago the residents of Wahroonga, through the local progress association, undertook the planting of trees inside the fences of the railway station; and since then, at the expense…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →There is a good deal of room for improvement in the service on the North Shore railway line, and this in more directions than one; but at present perhaps the greatest grievance is that…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A man named James Brittman, living in Pitt-street, alighted from an electric tram on the wrong side last night, and was immediately knocked down by a car proceeding in the opposite direction. When picked up…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon a woman named Maria Theresa Treweeke, 60 years of age, lately residing at Ingleburn, Grosvenor-street, Woollahra, was knocked down by an electric train in Pitt-street. She received…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ALBURY, Friday.--There apparently being but slight probability of the Government of this State extending the railway line to the head of the Murray River, as agitated for during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The people of Gladesville are Retting quite as anxious as the Baulkham Hills' about their promised tramway. Gladesville have a live member whose duty it seems is to give them as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The police last night were investigating an unusual case. It is stated a young girl, while travelling in the train between Eveleigh and Newtown yesterday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Annandale Club had an eight miles road race yesterday over the Taverner Hill-Corcord course in the presence of a considerable crowd of cyclists and others. The course was in a splendid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For nineteen years the Brooklyn Bridge has been one of the wonders of the world. Now New York has added to herself a new wonder, more impressive than the old one—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,âThe proposed tramway to Folly Point is the point of lody. The portion of the route from Miillers-street to Folly Point-road will be a most expensive piece of work. There…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An attempted outrage on a girl in a train on the main suburban line has been reported to the police, the victim being Miss Katle Young, 17 years of age, residing in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The story of an attempted outrage on a girl in a train early on Saturday morning has been told to the Sydney police. The girl is 17 years of age, and belongs to a highly respectable family…
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