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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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Considerable dissatisfaction exists among wheat buyers and produce merchants respecting the administration of the Railway Commissioners in connection with several…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A good deal of adverse comment has been aroused in Victoria by the local railway authorities deciding to raise the freight on Victorian cool to that charged on the New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coroner, Mr. Candler, delivered his finding to-day with reference to the death of Samuel Pyne, a cyclist, who was killed by collision with a motor car on the 4th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Some time back I wrote a few lines advising caution in the construction of the Finley to Tocumwal and Strathmerton railway. I see by the daily paper that the Commisisoners for Railways are conferring…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The entire duplication of the Trans-Siberian Railway has been abandoned, experts stating that the work would occupy three and a half years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coroner Candler to-day delivered his verdict in connection with the collision between a motor car and a bicycle, resulting in the death of Samuel Payne. He found that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early in the week a summary of the claims made by the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association was published in "The Daily Telegraph," and reference was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At a largely-attended meeting of the Government Tramway Employees' Union last night, the executive body was instructed to wait upon the Railway Commissioners, in order to have a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The regulation of the goods traffic on our railways is a matter which often gives rise to a certain amount of friction between commercial men and the Railway Department, and at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GOULBURN, Wednesday.--Yesterday morning a heavy goods train, travelling from Hilltop, got beyond the control of the driver while descending a steep grade, and, before it could be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,--A few years ago most of use believed that we possessed a highly efficient and a still more highly contented tody of railway employees. We know that positions of every grade in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday afternoon the Cabinet had under consideration the whole question of the recent bush fires, in the light of suggestions made by various members of Parliament whose…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →For some time past a feeling of dissatisfaction has prevailed among that section of the mercantile community whose daily business is associated with the carriage of the State's staple…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Sir John Quick, K.C., is strongly of opinion that the action of the Victorian Railway Department in carrying local coal at a cheaper rate than coal from any…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →HOBART, Thursday.--An engine and a line of trucks, while travelling from Conara to Fingal to-day, approached a bridge that was burning. The driver and fireman, being unable to stop the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The auction sales were resumed this Week, after the usual holiday break, and on Monday and Tuesday fairly large catalogues were submitted, Prices allowed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On Wednesday afternoon an accident happened on the Fingall line, between Ormley and Tullochgorum. Bush fires had set ablaze a wooden bridgo some 50 [?] long, and the train…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A correspondent who wrote to us some time ago complaining that the platforms of crowded trams were rendered still more uncomfortable by the carriage on them of the long sticks and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →If the average citizen who catches the electric tram each morning has ever given a thought to the vastness of the dimensions to which the Sydney tramway system has grown…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There is a lot of discussion going on at the present time as to whether the magnate arrangement for generating the necessary spark in motors is reliable, and also if it is to be preferred to the present system of…
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