Fairlie’s Railway System
IN our last issue we published a lengthy description of Fairlie’s system of light railways. We consider that we have at length discovered the best means of meeting the difficulties in…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1870
26 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2
The North-eastern Railway. [To the Editor of the “Argus.”]
SIR,—It is of the first importance to this colony that the projected railway to the Ovens and Upper Murray districts should be pushed on to completion as speedily as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →California.—terrible Railway Accident. (From the Bulletin.)
AT about half-past nine o’clock yesterday morning, November 19th, information was received in this city by telegraph, and soon after by one of the ferry-boats, that a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Extension. (From the Riverins Advertiser.)
THE Victorians are going ahead with their railways. No sooner had they determined on making a grand trank line from their capital to their north-eastern border, than the line to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the Tramp
I have just passed the rough ordeal and reached the culminating point of “colonial experience,” inasmuch as I have been “on the tramp,” and having met numerous knights-errant by the way,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open Column. a Government Surveyed Road—the Road to Death. To the Editor
Sir,—About two years since Mr. Surveyor M‘Cormack surveyed a line of road through the bush from the River Darling, at Wilcannia, to Mount Monaro. It is a long straight line,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MESSRS. P. N. Russell and Co.’s New Railway Carriage Factory. (From the S. M. Herald.)
THE factory for the manufacture of railway carriages, formally opened by Messrs. P. N. Russell and Co. on Tuesday, marks an important advance in the progress of colonial…
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A CORRESPONDENT signing himself Little John, thus writes from Wilcannia, under date the 22nd February, to the Pastoral Times:—“About two years since Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New South Wales Parliament. Legislative Council. March 30. the Roads [?]
Mr Owen moved the second reading of the Bill to provide for and regulate roads, going through the several clauses, nod pointing out their provisions. Mr Dockor pointed out what he considered defects…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Question—tram-way or Railway?
IN our fourth page we give from the Sydney Herald a condensed analysis of the report issued by Mr. M’Leay’s select committee in the Assembly on the question of railway…
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THE select committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed on 2nd February, 1870, with power to send for persons and papers, to inquire into and report upon the best…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Macleay’s Railway Report. (From the Sydney Herald.)
As a motion for the adoption of. the Report of the Select Committees on Railways is set down for this afternoon and is then to take precedence of all other business, it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Assembly. April 21. Railway Extension
The House wont into Committee of Supply. Mr Samuel moved the postponed rote of £1,248,000 by loan for railway extension. Mr Wilson wished more information on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wodonga Deputation and the Minister for Railways and Roads
Some confusion of ideas appears to have arisen in respect to the meaning of the “Shires’ Statute” while the Wodonga deputies were urging on the Government their claim for separation from the Shire of Yackandandah. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Flood at Yass. Total Destruction of the Works at the New Bridge. the Water at Yass Nine Feet Higher Than in 1852. (Abridged from the Yass Courier.)
The 26th April, 1870, will long be remembered by the inhabitants of the Yass district us a day of calamity and loss. The [?]ood in the Yass River, to Which we briefly alluded in our issue of Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Minor Roads. (From the Goulburn Herald.)
COMPLAINTS are very common as to the waste of resources consequent upon the present system of dealing with the minor roads. Sums of money, which though trifling in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Road Steamer. (From the Times.)
Progress breeds wants. As one need is provided for, a fresh need is born. So railways, invented to facilitate the operations of commerce and manufacture, have in their turn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Road Steamer, or the Iron Way ?
THE importance of a better, more speedy, and cheaper mode of transit for merchandise and squatting produce, is now, in these parts, so generally acknowledged as not to need…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Proposed Railway Delegation. (From the Riverine Advertiser.)
MR. JENNINGS telegraphed to Mr. Cowper on Saturday last, stating that delegates had been appointed to wait upon him at Melbourne, in order to push on the railway question. The…
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Sir,—Mr. Waring in his report to the Council on projected works for the ensuing year, mentions that the road in Bridge-street is badly made. I formed and made the road by instructions and specifications given…
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