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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
10,372 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250
Towards the close of the year the Railway Commissioners invited tenders from importing firms for the supply of New South Wales coal under new contracts, to take the place…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. David Storey, M.L.A., accompanied by the Mayor of Waverley (Alderman Watkins), Dr. Lamrock and Mr. D. Brown, waited upon the Minister for Works on Monday with reference, to connecting…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Washington correspondent of the "Times" telegraphs that Mr. P. C. Knox, United States Secretary of State, proposes to free Russia and Japan from the onerous…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Under me above headling reference is made to some remarks made by me at the meeting of that association. The report is correct, but as 1 presume your reporter had…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—Although the Railway Commissioners are not yet prepared to announce the acceptance of any tenders for the next two years' coal contracts, it is understood…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →LONDON, Friday.—The Washington correspondent of "The Times" states that Mr. P. C. Knox, United States Secretary of State, has secured the cordial support of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sir,—Great curse as the motor fiend is ashore, it is nothing compared to that afloat, and any day a serious accident will take place, and then action will ensue. The farce of it is, certain licenses and certificates are required…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →At the meeting of the Blacktown Shire Council on Wednesday evening, a letter was read from the Railway Department, explaining that a great many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Penrith Police Court the motorists caught driving over 10 miles an hour at St. Mary's on December 12 by the Mayor (Alderman Carpenter), Inspector…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It would seem after all that, we run our trams as a money-making proposition rather than as a public convenience. No season tickets are issued on the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Manhattan Bridge, being the fourth over East River New York City, which cost £5,200,000, has been opened…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At Chalons, France, Mr. Herbert Latham, in his Antoinette monoplane, attained a height of 3200ft, thus creating a record for high flight with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A special train in California became derailed an the Rock Island line. The carriages caught fire. Five people were killed and nine were injured, several of them…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Every sort of violent death from asphyxiation to mutilation has coma in the wake of the motorist, and he is rapidly developing a new line, which, if it is not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The much-despised farthing is coming into its own again, the British Electrical Federation, Limited, which operates about 450 miles of tramways in the United…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The best-paying line in the whole railway system of the country is the Westport, which is returning more than 5 per cent, on the half-million spent upon its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "African World" received a special cable from Broken Hill. Northern Rhodesia, stating that the Cape-Cairo rail-head reached the Congo frontier early on…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Richard Hibbs, who was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on December 13, after being run over by a train in the Hawkesbury tunnel, died in that institution last…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Sydney and Western Suburbs Motor Cycle Clubs held a run to National Park yesterday. At the last meeting of the Motor Boat Club of New South Wales several new members were elected…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A terrible accident occurred in the railway yards near the Central Station this morning, as a result of which George Mullens, a railway employee, was killed. The 7.35 train from…
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