English Extracts. Gladstone on Colonial Railways
The most important business that has been transacted by Mr. Gladstone, since his accession to office, relates to colonial railways. On the 16th instant a number…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1846
148 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 8
THE Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, June 9, 1846 Sworn to no master, of no sect am I.' the Proposed Railway to Goulburn
THE introduction of great national improvements, even when recommended by the clearest evidence of their advantages and of their practicability, is usually resisted or…
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The existing railway arrangements render it imperative that you should provide yourselves with a large stock of philosophy, to enable you to put up with certain inconveniences, which you will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, June 11, 1846. Sworn to no master, of no sect am I.' the Proposed Railway to Goulburn
In our former article we expressed our willingness, at that stage of the discussion, to take the reviewer's own estimate of the cost of construction as a pretty near…
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GENTLEMEN,—It would seem our men of money have not yet formed a very correct opinion of the advantages that will attend the establishment of the first railway that is to be staked…
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As it is not probable, owing to a wilful oversight, that I shall have the honor of appearing before the honorable committee of the Legislative Council, recently appointed to receive evidence as to the state and requisites of the main roads in this quarter, I…
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Captain O'Connell was up here on Monday on a railway mission; it was arranged by[?] and the agent of the Company up here (F. Beddek, Esq.) to call a meeting of the inhabitants on an early date, the precise day has not yet transpired, to…
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HAVING disposed—not unsuccessfully, we hope—of the question of first outlay, we now proceed to the Traffic Question. In the Report of the Provisional…
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GENTLEMEN,—In your leader of Tuesday last, you say the introduction of great national improvements, even when recommended by the clearest evidence of their advantages and of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. Lovers of Railways. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—In your paper of to-day I observe a letter signed "A Lover of Railways," and as you have been addressed under that name before, perhaps you will permit me to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, June 20, 1846. Sworn to no master, of no sect am I.' the Proposed Railway to Goulburn
THE subsequent chapters of the review of the Provisional Committee's Report are devoted to the statistics of stock and population, the object being to show that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →RAILWAYS. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—You have rendered an inestimable services to the promoters of railways in New South Wales by the publication this day, of the proceedings at the opening of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MAITLAND. (From the Maitland Mercury) Meeting of the Maitland Road Committee
THE Committee appointed at the late public meeting in East Maitland to apply to the Government for a portion of the money voted during the last session of Council for the repair…
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The committee appointed at the late public meeting in East Maitland to apply to the Government for a portion of the money voted during the last session of Council for the repair of the main roads of the…
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Let us fancy a man timid and unused to locomotion who has, perhaps, been diverting his morning with newspaper accounts of railway accidents arriving in the evening at the great terminus at Easton[?]square,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An Anti Masque. Scene.--The Cross-roads at Goatacre--a Meeting of Wiltshire Laborers. William Parry
To repeal of the Corn Laws 'squire makes this objection, That 'twill ruin the laborer, all the land o'er; But how's free trade to do what's been done by protection? Or how starve us worse than we've been starved before?…
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GENTLEMEN,—There is, perhaps, no subject on which mechanics differ more widely than as to the relative power required to propel a carriage over any obstruction on the road by…
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GENTLEMEN,—In a late paper, you notice a projected railway at Adelaide, and say that the South Australians will be before us if we do not take up the matter more warmly. If…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Extracts. Tee Expense of Railway Legislation. (From the Atlas.)
A NOTABLE instance of the unnecessary expense to which Parliament puts railway companies has just occurred. By the Standing Orders of both Houses, the committees on railway bills…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News From the Interior. (From our Correspondent.) Windsor. Public Meeting on Railways, &C
A WELL attended and highly respectable meeting, convened by public notice, of the inhabitants of the district of Windsor, was held at Coffey's Hotel, on Saturday, the 18th instant,…
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