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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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MELBOURNE. Thursday.--In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Income Tax Bill was recommitted. On the motion of the Premier, it was decided to make the tax payable by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the Metropolitan District Court, before Judge Backhouse, John Spender, omnibus proprietor, brought an action against the Railway Commissioners, damages laid at £50, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the Metropolitan District Court, Judge Buck- house delivered reserved judgment in the case of Reuben George Moore, of the Strand Arcade, Sydney, carrier, ugninsl the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A prominent Dural gentlemen this week informed us that there were signs of some of the strong supporters of the proposed RosehillDural railway wavering, and they were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This sketch tells more briefly, and perhaps quite as clearly as words can do it, how one inventor proposes to generate electricity for railway train lighting. As in the case of what has…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Mr. Mathewman writes:—I have been expecting to see some caustic remarks on the big Government "job," the Abattoir Bridge. Have you heard that the embankment on the Pyrmont side…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ARMIDALE, Friday.--In reply to a letter from Mr. Lonsdale, M.L.A., complaining of the small amount of road work carried out in the Armidale district during the past two or three months, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Missouri farmer, whose hog been killed by a train, and who imagined himself to be something of a poet, wrote these lines to the company's claim agent for a settlement:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Lord Mayor of Sydney having communicated with the Mayor of Rockdale with reference to the above fund, the latter gent lens an has decided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenders have been opened by the Railway Department for a bridge over the Dawson River, near Rockhampton. That of John M'Cormick and Sons was the lowest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An extraordinary and distinctly unpleasant experience fell to the lot of the passengers who travelled on the 10.25 a.m. train from Port William to Glasgow on the West Highland Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The provisional committee appointed at the meeting of the railway and tramway employees on the 15th instant to arrange a conference of the men to consider a scheme of superannuation met…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A terrible tramway accident occurred at Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A., yesterday. An electric tramcar carrying High School pupils attempted to stop in approaching a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, Friday.--Skidding upon frozen rails, an electric car containing High School pupils at Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A., burst through the gates of a level railway…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →As a Leichhardt tram was proceeding to the city on Friday evening, the driver sew a man lying on the rails. He stopped the cars as quickly es possible, but before they could be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, February 20.—A terrible tramway accident occurred at Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A., yesterday. An electric tram car, carrying High School…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Waverley Council recently made representations to the Railway Commissioners as to the inadequacy of the local tram service during the busy hours of the day. At Friday night's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The unique railway of which we give a sketch is probably the most curious and practical in the world. It connects two favorite Japanese watering-places, and is about 20 miles long. There are no engines; the "horse-power" is supplied by coolies, two of whom push the cars all the way, at a speed of about six miles an hour. Our…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Owing to the humerous accidents which occurred daily on the electric tramways in Berlin, a Special Commission was appointed to test all the latest examples of cowcatchers. Inventors were invited to offer their patents for the purpose of having them put through a practical test. The various cow-catchers were attached in turn to a…
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