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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
6,475 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 250
In connection with this year's show at the Agricultural Hall, London, the two most startling changes were in regard to the prices of cycles, and in the weights of motor cycles. In the case of the ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 120 →The motor car is now following in the steps of the steamship and the train in developing its own particular form of sickness. The distressing symptoms of which a good many…
Continued on Trove, page 105 →The Tramway Employees' Union has elected the following gentlemen as officers:--President, Mr. H. Lawton: vice-presidents, Messrs. J. M'Carthy. W. G. Harding, and P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A deputation recently waited upon the Railway commissioners from the Randwick Council, and it was promised that further inquiry would be made on the questions of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It used to be said in London not many years ago. whenever a fatality occurred through overcrowding on the underground railway, that the authorities would not take…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →I think it is a great shame the was Western people are treated in the way of special excursion trains. Surely some facilities should be offered us of getting away to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coroner Candler to-day commenced an investigation concerning the death of Samuel Payne, draper, of Kew, who was killed on Wednesday while riding a bicycle that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The railway officers who are investigating the damage done by the recent bush fires, speak very highly of the splendid work done by the permanent way men, especially along…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Intense heat In many parts of tho Stale has caused fresh outbreaks of bush fires. A large quantity of grass…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A tramp, apparently of weak Intellect, was charged at the Lancefield Police Court to-day with the careless use of fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the matter of baggage. America differs widely from the English method, which turns . the railway platform 011 the arrival of a train into a sort of lucky-tub, whence you may or may…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Dunlop Tyre Company. Which is organising the overaland reliability motor contest from Sydney to Melbourne, to take place towards the end of February. has had to regretfully decline the "Foy Cup" which was to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Having made a personal tour of Camperdown's roads and streets, the city aldermen are satisfied that to put them in order the City Surveyor's estimate of £62,000 is by no means…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A goods train, when going down the hill towards Balmoral at 9 o'clock this morning, ran off the line. The brakes failed to act, and as the train was travelling at a great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"One Who Knows" writes:—We have from time to time beard of our splendidly conducted railway service. Go down any day to Darling Harbour trucking depot, and among the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A score of "motor-car perambulators," driven by enthusiastic juvenile chauffeurs, will shortly be on the roads in England. The motor-perambulator is in all respects a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The proposal for the duplication of the Siberian railway for its entire length has been abandoned, experts stating that the work would occupy three and a half years…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Commissioners are disposed to be as generous as possible in their dealings with sufferers by the fires. It has already been announced that the Commissioners had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Complaints in regard to sparks omitted from railway locomotives are perennial, not only in this State but in other countries. At a public meeting at Minto the other day it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Department has been calling for reports from its officers relative to the bush fires. The permanent way men regularly clear off dry grass inside the railway fences,…
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