Bridge Building
SIR,—An improved method of trussing girders or beams having suggested itself to me, and supposing it to be well adapted for the construction of wooden bridges…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1845
54 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
Old South Head Road. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—Several complaints about the state of this road opposite the New Military Barracks has appeared lately in your columns, but no notice has been taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The City Roads. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—It may be information to the citizens to know that there is a probability of hackneys coming down! At a meeting of licensed coachmen, the other evening, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Morning Chronicle. Wednesday, February 5, 1845. State of the Roads—the Collective Wisdom
WE hear from every quarter-north, south, and west, constant complaints of the state of the roads, bridges, causeways, and public ways of the colony. With whom rests…
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POLITICS, for the moment, are merged in the great commercial movement which is now going on around us with a rapidity and an extension unexampled since the…
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We are clad to learn from a correspondent at Pesth that the magnificent works of the suspension bridge are progressing in the most satisfactory manner, under the solo direction of our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rail Road to Port Phillip. To the Editor of the Port Phillip Patriot
SIR,âHaving stopped short for a day or two at this incipient inland town on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, on my overland journey from Port Phillip…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Atmospheric Railway. (From the Athen[?]um, December 4.)
DUBLIN, 1844.—So much scientifical opinion upon the Dalkey Atmospheric has been put forth, that perhaps you may like to hear a little unscientifical. Engineers can feel through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Influence of Railways on Seaport-towns (From the Morning Herald)
The extension of lines of railway is exciting considerable interest in the mercantile circles, by their bearings on a point which has hitherto attracted comparatively little public attention…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. the Port Phillip Railway. To the Rev. Dr. Lang, M.C., per favour of the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Having had some experience in Railway matters in England, I would beg permission to make a few observations on your recent letter to the Editor of the Port Phillip Patriot,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, April 17, 1845. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." Roads and Bridges
THE present state of the great thoroughfares of this colony is daily becoming more and more the subject of loud and veiy just complaint. Never, since the days of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The District Councils—the Roads of the Colony
IT is not our wont, nor never shall be our practice to join an outcry against any public man because others do, (like beagles, which, when game is roused, always unite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Warwick and Leamington Railway
ON Monday, the 2nd of December, this line, connecting Coventry, Kenilworth, Leamington, and Warwick, by means of the London and Birmingham railway, with the metropolis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dangerous State of Bridge-street
WE call attention to the dangerous state of Bridge-street, not because it is the locale of our own office, but because of the jeopardy in which it places the lives of all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Mrs. Harris
What Mrs. Harris is to Sarah Gamp, Colonel Pasley is to Railways. When a railway is completed, Colonel Pasley vouches for the excellence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Roads
TRAVELLING may be said to be almost put a stop to by the state of the roads, which are now in a worse condition than they have been for very many years; in fact there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The principal advantages of constructing Railways with Wooden Rails
The obstacle to the formation of Railways with wooden rails has hitherto been the want of means of guiding carriages on them: this has been overcome by Proper's Patent Guide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Accidents
The collision between Beeston and Nottingham appears to have occurred entirely from the want of sufficient power actually to work the line. A tender gets off the line of the up-rails, bending arid…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State of the Roads
THERE is no circumstance by which the prosperity o' a commercial country is so much affected as by its means of transit, and one of the prominent features of civilization is the art of good road making;…
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