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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
148 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 8
ILL weeds will up, as says the husbandman; the same sunshine which mantles the fields with the golden flood of harvest raises and ripens also an abundant crop of tares…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE may see by what the railway has done in the present instance (the Sunderland express), what may be done, what must be done, and what undoubtedly will be done. With little…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A RICH and almost virgin field for railway enerprise is opening in Canada, and we rejoice [?] see that the provincial legislature is not only [?]isposed to afford every futility for its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the September papers we perceive the announcement of a railway company for the establishment of a railway between Sydney and the Hawkesbury. The next mail will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SOME short time since we had to complain of the state of the roads between this metropolis and the most important adjoining townships. These evils hare been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have carefully inspected the amount of capital embarked in railways, the number of shares in the market, and the value of the premiums upon them. It appears that forty-four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CONSTRUCTIVE operations on nearly all the new lines granted last session have been commenced, and will be in full operation before the close of the year; affording to the working…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE formation of a company in London, having for its object the establishment of certain lines of railway communication in this colony, is one of the chief 'topics of the day,' and, if we mistake not, will soon become a matter of serious consideration with those…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THIS magnificent project which we may now fairly consider on the very eve of accomplishment, since a provisional committee of the most competent and influential colonists has been appointed to report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How many dabblers in railway shares ever bestow a thought Upon the railway itself[?] The early speculators in railways contemplated the development of a new branch of industry—a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE are happy to learn that the Provisional Committee appointed, by the late public meeting, to collect information on the subject of railways in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. SPECTATOR.--If the following hints, which have been suggested in consequence of the recent meeting on the subject of Railways, be deemed worthy of a place in your paper, you will oblige me by giving them insertion:--…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →"The lapse of time is scarcely less perceptible than the changes which accompany its rapid flight. It is only by looking backward to some fixed point that we can realize its progress, and from retrospection alone can we obtain the elements for…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →THE railway community ought to feel extremely obliged to the author of the subjoined letter for the uncontrovertible facts he has adduced in opposition to the idle twaddle of alarm put forward by the Times in its leading article, on the subject of…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →GENTLEMEN,—It may be conducive to the general interest that we should take some notice in the interior of the great movement respecting railways, which has been recently made in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have been favoured with a copy of the following letter, from one of the passengers by the train:— "Leeds, October 27. "You will be aware from the hasty note I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When I took up the paper to-day, Caudle, you might have knocked me down with a feather? Now, don't be a hypocrite--you know what's the matter. And when you haven't a bed to lie upon, and are brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →I WAS confoundedly hard up. My patrimony, never of the larges, had been for the last year on the decrease—a herald would have emblazoned it. "Argent, a money bag improper,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CHANGE more remarkable than any within the memory of the present race of dealers in shares or stocks has been just caused by the monetary admonition of the Bank of England, in the value of what the other day was considered property of lucky…
Continued on Trove, page 64 →SOME three years, or more, since, we had occasion to present our readers with a full explanation of the atmospheric system of railway traction,—to state that the honours of…
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