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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
26 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2
Some very curious relies of ancient English artillery and ammunition have lately been discovered by C. D. Archibald Esq., on his estate upon the western shore of the Isle of Walney,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The following spirited narrative of the battle of Rothwell Bridge, is extracted from a little volume entitled Patrick Wellwood, a tale of the times, of the Kirk and Covenant:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NOTICE.—The presiding magistrate and assessors, at a meeting holden on the 31st December, 1840, for the purpose of considering the expediency of appointing trustees for the Parish road,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday, pursuant to advertisement, a public meeting of the landed proprietors interested in the "Old Botany Road," for the election of trustees, was held at the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The amount of duty paid to government from [?]2 the principal railways in England in the year ending the 5th of January last, was (according to returns laid before the select…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,--It is a strange sight to watch one of these dens of wickedness, throughout an evening, it is a strange and melancholy, yet to the meditative man, an interesting sight. There approaches a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NOTICE.—The presiding magistrates and assessors, at a meeting held at the police office, on Thursday, the 28th day of January, 1841, having, within five days of such meeting, reported to us, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We had the pleasure of witnessing, on Monday week; another set of experiments made with the half-mile of railway which has been laid down at Wormwood Scrubs, on the atmospheric plan of Messrs Clegg and Samuday; and have no…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PROVISIONAL COMMITTE.—St. John Blacker Esq., Alexander Doorman, Esq, Hannanel deCastro, Esq., John Ruck. Esq., Francis I[?]tins Vanzeller. Esq , by whom a List of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE experiments on the line of railroad which runs from the Uxbridge-road, near Shepherd bush, across Wormwood Scrubs, to the [?] the Great Western Railroad, and on [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday last, pursuant to public notice, this great and important line of railway was opened for the conveyance of passengers from Leeds to Hebden Bridge—thus completing, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have long been desirous to call the attention of the Australian public— you will observe, gentle reader, we say public— not speculators, shareholders, and joint stock gamblers, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The experiments on the line of railroad which runs from the Uxbridge-road, near Sdiepherd's-bush across Wormwood Scrubs, to the line of the Great Western Railroad, and on which carriages are propelled by means of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The annexed is a reply from Governor Grey, of South Australia, to a memorial presented to him by a highly respectable body of colonists, praying his Excellency to take into his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—You do well to direct our attention to the greater activity and coherence of colonists in South Australia and other settlements by way of stimulating us to "co-operation for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—My attention has been directed to an advertisement calling a Meeting at Campbelltown, this week, for the purpose of memorializing the Governor to open the new line of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are no enemies to improvement; yet improvement sometimes effects changes which we cannot help regretting. In its march, it occasionally sweeps away old land-marks to which a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GENTLEMEN,—The inhabitants of Campbelltown, Appin, Bargo, and other places through which the new line of Road, proposed by Sir Thomas Mitchell, is to pass, seem to be keeping…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—As you have broken through your declared resolve to insert no more correspondence about the road to Argyle via Bargo, I hope you will allow one of those most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—I am by no means ambitious to figure in a newspaper, and therefore not likely to intrude very often on the columns of your ably-conducted and influential journal; but on…
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