The Two Railways
In an article in the Sydney Times (a new journal) of Saturday last we find the following description of the system on which the Sydney and the Hunter River Railways have been…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1855
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The Sydney Railway
We had only space in our last to record in a brief paragruph that on Saturday last the first railway train travelled from Sydney to the terminus near Parramatta. It was a kind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper. a Bill to Provide for the Making and Repairing of District Roads
Whereas by the Act of Council 4 Victoria, No. 12, provision was made for the making and repairing of parish roads, by means of rates to be levied by elected trustees, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Railway Terminus at Parramatta. (From the Empire, Sept. 22.)
It will be remembered that on the occasion of the visit of his Excellency the Governor-General, to Parramatta, four weeks ago, a memorial, signed by 265 of the inhabitants…
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The Sydney papers of Thursday contain full reports of the opening of the Sydney Railway on Wednesday. The first train started at eleven o'clock, the Governor General and most of the members of the Executive…
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The following letter and enclosure, received by the Secretary of the Maitland Road Trust, in reply to his application as directed by the Trust, have been handed to us…
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We do not believe that the most strenuous supporter of railways expected that the opening of so short a line as that from Sydney to Parramatta would have had the effects which have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, November 10, 1855. the Railway Votes
THE Council has been suddenly seized with a fit of generous confidence in the Government, after having, during most of the session, taken every convenient…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Homebush Races. Third Day, Thursday, Nov. 8. (Abridged from the Empire.) First Race.—The Railway Plate of 100 guineas, with a sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each added, for all horses; one event, twice round and a distance Second horse to receive 20 sovs, from the stakes. Mr. Charles Baldwin's Camerton, 5 yrs.......(Snell) 1 Mr. A. Rose's Surplice, aged....................... 2 Mr. Schofield's Dora, aged......................... 3 Mr. Hughes' Stranger. 4 yrs........................ 0 Mr. G. Hammond's Black Jack, 4 yrs................. 0 Mr. J. Champion's Risk, 5 yrs...................... 0
A good start was effected, but in passing the judge's chair, Camerton, Surplice, and Dora got away from the other three. It was plain that the race lay between the former;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, December 5, 1855. the Railway Vote Reversed
THE Council on Thursday recalled its hasty vote of £600,000 for the further prosecution of railways—on two grounds: one, the answer of the…
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