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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Shabby treatment was accorded the members of the Public Works Committee at Newcastle yesterday. Last week the officials of the Chamber of Commerce intimated to the secretary of the committee that they desired to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two electric trams came into collision in George-street West, near Harris-street, about 8.45a.m. yesterday, a tram to Balmain from Circular-quay crashing into the rear of a tram…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A deputation from the works committee of the City Council, acting under the instructions of the whole council, waited upon the Railway Commissioners yesterday morning, and asked the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday.--The Canadian newspapers congratulate the State of Victoria upon having secured the services of an energetic Chairman of State Railways in the person of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Tuesday.--The Gordon-Bennett Motor Race Bill was last night read a third time in the House of Commons. The Automobile Club of Great Britain and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Complaints are daily made regarding the Baulkham-hills tram. When the agitation for the extension was set on foot it was the primary purpose of those concerned that the tram should carry freight more than…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Richards, M.L.A., who was accompanied by Messrs. Haynes, Phillips, D. Storey, and J. Fitzpatrick, Ms.L.A., and Mr. Willis, M.P., introduced a deputation to the Premier on…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The above map illustrates the route of the proposed North Coast Railway—from Maitland to South Grafton In his evidence before the Public Works Committee, Mr. J. Davis stated that the length of the proposed line is 310 miles 68 chains, and the estimated cost £2,650,820, o[?] £8531 per mile, exclusive of land and compensation. This line begins by a junction with the Great Northern Railway at 20 miles 47.24 chains from Newcastle, and about half a mile north of West Maitland Station. Proceeding northerly it crosses the Hunter River about four miles from the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →THE institution of the Parramatta-Baulkham Hills tram was a good thing for this district, and a good thing for the "authorities" ; though it would have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Auburn Council and the Dundas and Ermington Progress Association are again agitating for the construction of a bridge over the Parramatta River connecting Newington and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A letter has been received by the Berry council from Mr. C. Osborne, solicitor, acting for a client, applying for payment of the sum of £30 sustained through the loss of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the meeting of the Rookwood Borough Council on Tuesday evening it was decided to write to the Railway Commisioners asking for an overhead bridge at the station for vehicular traffic. The present low-level crossing, over…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TUENA, Wednesday.--William Fenton, an old- ago pensioner, was found dead near the main road, five miles from here. He had evidently dropped dead when coming to receive his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. John Perry (Minister for Public Instruction), who was accompanied by Mr. Bridges (Chief Inspector of Schools), opened the new addition to the Glenmore-road school on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A case was before the Full Court which called [?]to question the right to sue a municipality in connection with a street accident. The case was that in which a cabman named A1 [?]nder Norman…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →TEMORA, Wednesday.—A largely-attended meeting was held last night to arrange for a demonstration on the turning of the sod of the Temora-Barrellan line. All the out-districts along…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A correspondent writes:—Cannot the tramway authorities devise some plan by which shunting at Harris-street may be held over until the busy period is finished? Every morning there is a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.—Messrs. J. M'Farlane, M.L.A. (chairman), Alex. Kethel, and W. R. Campbell, Ms.L.C., J. S. Hawthorne, J. M'Gowen, and S. W. Moore, Ms.L.A. (the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Armstrong, a grocer, residing in Randwick, and carrying on business at 209 Oxford-street, had one of those experiences this week that serve to prove, despite what pessimists say, that there are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Germany is greatly perturbed because American capitalists have offered to build a land grant railway from Desterro, the capital of Santa Catharina, Brazil, to the…
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