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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The railway accident at Lion Mill on Tuesday was much more serious than was at first reported. Six trucks ran down the incline and were switched on to the runaway siding, down which they travelled at a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last night a goods train from the city was running between-Mitcham and Blackwood, when one of the axles of a loaded truck broke, causing the truck to leave the rails. The truck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Several of the delegates to the Political Labour League yesterday paid a visit of inspection to the State shelter for unemployed on the Bunnerongroad. The party, which included the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Wednesday evening a meeting was held at Granville for the purpose of forming a branch of the Railway and Tramway Service Association. Mr. T. D. Richards, president of the parent society, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The work in connection with the installation of the auxiliary electric service on the Ocean-street cable line is being pushed ahead by the Railway Commissioners. It is expected that the service…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The duplication of the Rose Bay tramway line is a work that the tramway authorities consider to be absolutely necessary. Without it, they state they will find it practically impossible to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"A Passenger" writes: As the feats on many of the trains are in such a dirty state that any lady with a white dress on runs a risk of having it spoiled, I would call the attention of the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In order to give the children from the goldfields a chance of visiting the coast in the hot weather, the Government has arranged specially reduced rates for them, in parties of not less than 10 children…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charles Fleming Mackenzie, aged about 30 years, was killed by the mail train on Tuesday night. The body was found early on Wednesday. Deceased fought in the South Africau war, and had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is no official information as to any overtures being made to Mr. Swinburne, M. L. A. as to accepting a Railway Commissionership…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Oliver Spencer, an elderly man, who was admitted, to the Sydney Hospital on Christmas Eve, suffering from a fractured skull, the result of a tram accident, died early this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In order to provide Letter facilities for bathers at Bondi on Sunday mornings, Mr. Oakes, M.L.A., recently "wrote to the commissioners making several suggestions. in reply, the commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not one of the railway societies concerned has yet indicated its Intention of obeying the edict of the Government, that association with the Trades-hall Council must be discontinued…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire occurred yesterday afternoon among a quantity of tar on a railway siding off George-street South, near the railway bridge. Immense clouds of smoke soon rose from the burning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ABOUT eighteen months ago Mr. O’Sullivan was [?] to visit Bexley with the object of [?] for himself the necessity of a work which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following handicaps have been declared for the Annandale Club's race this afternoon over the Flemington course:--R. S. Lawrence seratch, G. Budge 20sec., W. Baskerville 25, A. J. Fish 50. B. Milder 55, J. Brown…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →In this age of progressive railroading every important rood in America, has one or more special trains that, on account of their superior equipment, their fast running time, or the two combined, have commanded unusual attention, but on the list it is doubtful if there is any train which has achieved a more unique fame than the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy's fast train,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The inspector under the Inebriates Acts of Great Britain (Dr. Welsh Branthwaite) in his annual report, states that he had made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →As the outcome of a meeting held in Gianville a couple of months ago, Mr. T. D. Richard, President of the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service…
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