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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1846

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An the Railway Calls Be Paid (From the Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1846 · page 3

In Times has at lenght "let the cat out of the [?]," It has dislosed the motives—or at [?]st one of the motives—by which it has been [?]uated in its crusade against railway…

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Railways in Jamaica. (From the Jamaica Dispatch of September 8.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1846 · page 3

ALTHOUGH the prospect which has been opened to us of the general formation of railways throughout the island has been hailed with universal gratification, not merely on account of…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Railways in Australia. (From the Iron Times, October 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1846 · page 3

WE lately announced that the design for some railway communication which was started some time since for means of intercourse to the interior of Australia would shortly be revived…

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Spectator's Library. the Bridge of Sighs

The Spectator · Saturday 14 March 1846 · page 89

One more unfortunate, Weary of breath Rashly importunate Gone to her death!…

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Song of the Railway Maniac

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 14 March 1846 · page 4

This is my left hand—this my right; These are my eyes, my nose, my mouth; I can discern the day from night: There lies the north, and there the south…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, March 23, 1846 "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." Roads and Bridges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 March 1846 · page 2

IN the session of 1844, one of the honorable members for Port Phillip, Mr. ROBINSON, brought in a Bill for the regulation of Turnpike Trusts, the object of…

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Ceylon Railway Company. (From the Ceylon Herald, November 21.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 March 1846 · page 2

THE Prospectus of the Ceylon Railway Company, which we had the pleasure of presenting in our last, came rather suddenly upon the public, and the pleasure of anticipation seem[?]…

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Port Phillip. Saying the Foundation Stones of the New Bridge and Hospital, at Melbourne. (Abridged from the Port Philip Herald, March 20.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1846 · page 3

To-DAY being that fixed by his Honor the Superintendent and his Worship the Mayor for the laying of the foundation stones of the above public undertakings, it was altogether a gala…

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Port Phillip Laying the Foundation Stones of the New Bridge and the Hospital

The Spectator · Saturday 4 April 1846 · page 124

The people of Melbourne having at length had some consideration shown them in the shape of a partial appropriation, for their own purposes, of their own surplus revenues, have evinced, by an unusually warm demonstration, their appreciation of the…

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English Extracts. Railway Interest of the United Kingdom

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 April 1846 · page 3

UNDER this head the Times of Monday publishes a complete list of all the railways in the United Kingdom, whether completed, in course of construction, or projected. The…

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Mutiny of a Road Gang

The Star · Friday 10 April 1846 · page 1

James Caufield was brought,up by the Chief Constable, for resisting him in the execution of his duty. Ryan had gone to have the men at Baulkham Hills mustered, as a robbery had been committed in that…

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The Road

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 11 April 1846 · page 2

A Turnpike Road Race was to have taken place on Tuesday morning last, between Alexander's roan, Moonraker, carrying 12st. 7lb., and Samuell's bay, The Butcher,…

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Railway Expenditure Not National. (From the Times, November 21.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1846 · page 3

WE reminded our readers the other day that we had emphatically warned the public against rash speculation, and expressly foretold the recept crisis, several times in the month of…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, April 15, 1846. "Sworn to no matter, of no sect am I." Generals Darling and Bourke on Colonial Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 April 1846 · page 2

THE letter signed " A. POLACK," inserted in our number of Saturday last, was dismissed by us with a few comments in a foot-note. Subsequent reflection has…

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English Extracts. Railway Inventions and Improvements

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 April 1846 · page 3

A LOCOMOTIVE engine of truly gigantic dimensions has just been constructed at the Bromsgrove station on the Bristol and Birmingham railway, under the direction of Mr. M'Connell,…

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Topics of the Day. the Railway Madness and Its Treacherous Keepers

The Spectator · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 151

THE Times and Mr. Spackman have brought the Railway public to book, with a gigantic statistical synopsis of the railways constructed, constructing, and contemplated. Presented in this tangible form, the results are sufficiently startling…

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Miscellaneous. Railway Notices

The Spectator · Saturday 18 April 1846 · page 152

FROM an elaborate compilation of the new lines for England and Wales, 636 in number, contained in Bradshaw's Railway Gazette of yesterday, we transfer the following summary:-- The entire number of bills from England and Wales…

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Original Correspondence. South Head Road, Near the New Military Barracks. To the Editor of the Chronicle

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 22 April 1846 · page 2

SIR—Permit me through the columns of your independent journal, to draw the attention of the Commissioner of Police, to the very frequent absence of the police patrol on the old South Head…

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Railway Incidents on the Thirtieth of November

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1846 · page 3

SUNDAY being tho 30th of November the offices of the railway department of the Board of Trade were opened for the reception of plans, sections, &c., which had to be delivered not…

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English Extracts. the Railway Madness and Its Treacherous Keepers. (From the Spectator.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 April 1846 · page 3

THE Times and Mr. Spackman have brought the railway public to book, with a gigantic statistical synopsis of the railways constructed, constructing, and contemplated. Presented…

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