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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1838

17 stories in Sydney's papers

The Roads

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1838 · page 2

THE state of the roads throughout the various districts of the interior forms a never-failing topic of complaint among the settlers and of comment in the public…

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Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat. The Design and Designer of the Sydney Steam Bridge or Punt

The Sydney Times · Monday 19 February 1838 · page 2

Never are we so much pleased as when we find occasion to employ the above honorable mark of distinction and public commendation, and feel called upon to draw…

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Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat. The Design and Designer of the Sydney Steam Bridge or Punt

The Sydney Times · Monday 19 February 1838 · page 2

Never are we so much pleased as when we find occasion to employ the above honorable mark of distinction and public commendation, and feel called upon to draw…

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Extracts. "London and Birmingham Railway

The Sydney Herald · Monday 5 March 1838 · page 3

"The line of the London and Birmingham railway, which has for some time been opened to Boxmoor, was on Saturday opened for the first time to Tring, in He[?]fordshire. The line…

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Grand Junction Railway

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 16 April 1838 · page 3

We have recently observed in several country papers, as well as in some of, our metropolitan contemporaries, statements and animadversions scarcely fair, in regard…

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The Road the Plates went

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 30 May 1838 · page 4

At some distance from Castle Taylor, in the county of Galway, is a round fort called the Palace of Dunderlass, where it is said Goora. king of Connaught, resided there is…

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ROADS. Col. Sec. Office, Sydney, June 30, 1838

The Colonist · Saturday 7 July 1838 · page 3

WITH reference to the Government Notice bearing date the 14th February last, relative to the opening and making a road from Raymond Terrace to join the road from Newcastle to Maitland, and roads from…

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Observations in 1838, upon the suggestion of projecting a Rail-road general conveyance in the Colony of New South Wales, in shares

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 22 August 1838 · page 2

As the rapidly improving progress of this colony seems now to attract the attention of many of the most mature and wealthy states of the old world, this project has been mooted. First, then, let us…

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The Road to Brisbane Water, Or, the Surveyor at Fault!

The Colonist · Wednesday 26 September 1838 · page 3

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Arrival of the Western Steamship. (From the Brighton Guardian of May 30). King's Road, May 29, Half-Past 11 A.M.

The Australian · Thursday 4 October 1838 · page 2

The Great Western came to an anchor here at ten minutes before eleven o'clock. She left New York on the 7th instant, at half-past two o'clock, having to encounter contrary winds…

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Opening of the Great Western Railway

The Colonist · Saturday 13 October 1838 · page 4

THE first [?] of this [?] and important [?] having been completed to Maid[?] distance of nearly twenty-four miles [?] London by railway, and twenty-seven by…

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Infected Sheep. Address to the Lieutenant Governor, from the Midland Agricultural Association. Ross Bridge, 19th Sept., 1838

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 17 October 1838 · page 2

SIR --We, the under signed Inhabitants of the Districts of Campbelton and Oatlands, have heard, with a considerable degree of anxiety, that contagious diseases fatal to sheep, have…

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Streets and Roads. (For the perusal of our Government.)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 20 October 1838 · page 2

THE following extract from the English Railway Magazine, shows that the expense is greater, by a very large amount, to keep in repair the Macadamized streets and…

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Original Correspondence. To "A Traveller on a Well-descried Road."

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 25 October 1838 · page 3

SIR, It being a duty incumbent upon all who name the name of Christ to help the wayfaring traveller, if his journey be…

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English Extracts. Opening of the Great Western Railway

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 9 November 1838 · page 3

The first portion of this stupendous and important undertaking having been completed to Maidenhead (a distance of nearly twenty-four miles from London by…

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Original Correspondence. to a Traveller on a Well-described Road

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 December 1838 · page 3

SIR,— I have read your address to the editor of the Sydney Gazette, together with the observations of the editor…

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Original Correspondence. to the Editor of the Colonist. Hassan's Walls, Bathurst Road, Friday December 6, 1838

The Colonist · Wednesday 12 December 1838 · page 2

DEAR SIR,—I am now on my way to Mudgee, and have just met a servant of Mr. Lawson's coming down with some brood mares, who has been met and robbed by four armed bushrangers…

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