British Extracts. Railway Speculations. (From the Spectator.)
On a moderate estimate, the railways already in existence and to be executed may be taken to cost............ £150,000,000 The gross profit on that capital,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1846
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Australian Railways
The following advertisement appeared in the October papers: "Great New South Wales Railway, from Newcastle, in the colony of New South Wales, to Maitland,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Mercury[?] Wednesday, February 4, 1846. Colonial Railways
FROM two prospectuses which appeared in our last number, it will be seen that this colony has come in for a share of the attention of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SKETCH of a Parliamentary Committee on a Railway Project. (From Blackwood's Magazine.)
Certainly of all tribunals ever invented by the ingenuity of man a Parliamentary Committee is the most extraordinary. It is a court of inquiry consisting of five members,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, February 7, 1846. Colonial Railways.—the Goulburn Line
THE results of the earlier experiments in the formation of railways in this colony will undoubtedly exercise great influence either in accelerating or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. Lecture Xxxiii. Mrs. Caudle Has Discovered That Caudle Is a Railway Director
"When I took up the paper to-day, Caudle, you might have knocked me down with a feather! Now don't be a hypocrite—you know what's the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Extracts. the New Railways. (From the Morning Chronicle, September.)
Constructive operations on nearly all the new lines granted last session have been commenced, and will be in full operation before the close of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Extracts. Railway Speculation. (From the Britannia, Sept. 27.)
The railway system is no longer a theory, no longer an experiment. Wherever it has been tried, it has succeeded beyond the expectations of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Extracts. What Railway Directors Should Do. (From the Britannia, Nov. 8.)
The bank has again raised its rate of discount. Money has naturally become scarcer, even at higher rates, and the commencement of a period of trial and pressure…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railways and Their Directors. (From the Times.)
When railway schemes were more in their infancy than at present, it was considered absolutely essential that the provisional committees should consist…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, March 11, 1846. the Roads
As the greater portion of the exportable produce of the colony for this season has reached the shipping ports, people generally will relapse into a state of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. RAILWAYS. To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury
SIR—It is possible that it may not have occurred to parties following farming, or carrying on trades, within, and on the north, and on the west, of the Hunter districts, that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Railways. (From the Colonial Gazette, Dec. [?].)
The subjoined article from the Railway King—however our contemporary came by his information—is not very far wide of the mark. We present it…
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At a meeting of the Provisional Committee appointed to collect information relative to the introduction of railways in New South Wales, held at the rooms of Mr. S. Lyons,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Meeting. Proposed Railway From Sydney to Goulburn and Windsor
On Wednesday last a public meeting, called by advertisement, was held in Mr. Samuel Lyons's rooms, George-street, to consider the expediency of forming railways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, May 9, 1846. Report of the Provisional Railway Committee.—the Goulburn Line
THE Provisional Railway Committee have published their first report, which we laid before our readers in our last. It relates to the line from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, May 13, 1846. Report of the Provisional Railway Committee.—the Goulburn Line.—ii
SINCE our last article was written a very decided and important step has been taken in Sydney with regard to the formation of colonial railways. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, May 16, 1846. Report of the Provisional Railway Committee.—the Goulburn Line.—iii
IN the estimate of the present annual traffic in goods between Sydney and Goulburn, appended to the Report of the Provisional Railway Committee,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, May 20, 1846. Report of the Provisional Railway Committee.—the Goulburn Line.—iv
IN our last a typogra[?]ical error occurred in our statement of the export of wool, the produce of the Middle District, in the season of 1844-45. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, May 23, 1846. Report of the Provisional Railway Committee.—the Goulburn Line.—v
THE following is the Railway Committee's estimate of the present annual passenger traffic between Sydney and Goulburn, and intermediate places:…
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