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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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A sensational runaway, which ended rather disastrously for a sulky and a buggy, and slightly effected a passing tram car, occurred in one of the busiest portions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A little boy named Robert Hughes, 10 years of age, and residing with his parents at Susan-street, Annandale, was attempting to alight from a moving, tram at Lelchhardt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fluid invented by Mr. St. Clair Legge has been discovered to mix with petrol and paraffin and trial runs prove that the results are far better than those obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Several railway thieves were arrested at the Clare do Lyon, including a female thief, who had adopted a rather original m[?] of operation (writes a Paris correspondent)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stanwell Park, on the Illawarra line, about 32 miles from Sydney, is situated in a most p[?] locality. It is near the mouth of the O[?]ord Tunnel, from which a most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Boat Club of N.S.W. -- Race at Manly Regatta. Moonlight harbour excursion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Speaking at Burraga on "Wednesday night, Mr. Hogue said there had been no unnecessary delay in the appointment of a Chief Railway Commissioner. The best possible man had been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Railway Department announces that tomorrow combined rail and steamer excursions .will be run as follows:-- To the Hawkesbury River, in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,--Seeing that the Government seems to be in earnest with regard to Glebe Island, and considering tho fact that it is proposed to run a branch line from Summer-hill railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further consideration was given of the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Narromine to Peak-hill. Mr. Hall read from a list of statistics giving…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Public Works Committee yesterday gave further consideration of the expediency of constructing a tramway from Wallsend to West Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →[?] the District Court to-day, H. L. Stevens, manager of Knowles Motor Company, Melbourne, was fined £2 with £5 is 6d costs, on a charge of having driven a motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following are the names of the starters in the two days' reliability trial which the Automobile Club of Australia intends holding on the 25th and 20th inst from Parromata to Bathurst and back—a distance…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →While riding on a tram at Annandale yesterday afternoon, a boy, Robert Hughes, 10, living with his parents at 35 Susan-strcnt, Leichhard, fell off. He was conveyed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New South Head-road is among the dustiest of the thoroughfares in and around Sydney. The condition of the road was described as "something awful" by an aggrieved ratepayer writing to the Woollahra Council at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →In connection with the railway and tramway appeals board, the election of the employees representative on the board is now pending. The appointment is for a period of three years…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The second annual meeting of the Tramway Officers' Association was held at the Railway Institute on 15th instant. The president, Mr. John Kneeshaw, occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In his remarks at the meeting of the Tramway Officers' Association, Mr.J. Kneeshaw drew attention to the increasing difficulty of handling the enormous passenger traffic that pours into…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Friday Evening.— The Earl og Elgin, Secretary of State for the Colonies approves Lord Selborne's refusal to permit Transvaal railway employees to take…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In America, where novelty, possibly freakiskness, usually tickles the fancy of very many, it is possible that motor-car marriages may become really fashionable, instead of sportive…
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