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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1836

27 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

East India Intelligence. List of Shipping in the Roads, with their Destination, &c

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 19 July 1836 · page 2

MADRAS, APRIL, 8, 1836,—H. M. Ship "Andromache," Captain H. D. Chads, for Calcutta in a week. H. M. ship "Rattlesnake," Captain…

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 18th July. 1836. Stone Bridge Near Windsor

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1836 · page 4

IT being intended to build a Stone Bridge over South Creek, near Windsor; Parsons disposed to contract for the performance of this work, are requested to transmit their Tenders to this…

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English Extracts RAILWAYS

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 10 August 1836 · page 4

So much of the public attention is now directed to the subject of Railways, while proposals for their construction are springing up and demanding contributions on…

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The Roads and Streets

The Sydney Times · Saturday 20 August 1836 · page 2

"It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good," is a trite, if peradventure it be deemed a vulgar adage ; but the sentiment will apply no less literally if we change the simile…

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Select Poetry, Railway Rhymes. [From the "Times."]

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 22 September 1836 · page 3

There's nought but iron on every han', On every road one passes, O; What signifies the life o' man, That frailer than the grass is, O?…

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Domestic Intelligence. [Continued] the Roads

The Colonist · Thursday 29 September 1836 · page 6

WE took advantage of a leisure space, since our last publication, to make an excursion into the interior as far as Menangle Ford, and we have thus had an opportunity to judge for ourselves on…

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Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 20th December, 1836. Watch Houses. Concord, Prospect, Kissingpoint, and Winds[?]r Road

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 December 1836 · page 4

TENDERS will be received at this Office until noon of Monday, the sixteenth of January next, from Persons [?]ing to undertake the erection of either of the above mentioned…

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