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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
45 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
GENTLEMEN.—Proneness to take up the subject of the day appears to be one of the characteristics of our colonists, and whether it be pastoral or immigration associations,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No man has been more shabbily treated by the Government, than the present Surveyor-General. He has fretted himself ten years older than his natural vigour bespeaks, by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ancient Romans, ancient Romans— Cato, Scipio Africanus, Ye whose fame's eclips'd by no man's, Publius Emilianus…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SWINDON, NEAR FARRINGDON, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. — Last evening, as the 4-15 train from Baddington was proceeding on its way, one of the most fearful accidents we have ever had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway mania was the phrase last year. It must soon give way to railway ruin. Our readers are aware that during the recent session of Parliament every man of sense and prudence, who took any part…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE occurrence of the late Court of Assize at Berrima has caused a considerable number of our readers to travel on the road between Sydney and that place. The wool clip being also…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MUCH has been said and much written about our public grievances—grievances connected with land, and grievances not connected with land—grievances that can…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN charging the Legislative Council, yesterday, with a flagrant dereliction of duty on the Road question, we gave them the credit of having made one feeble…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE poor flimsy thing brought up, by way of apology for a Report, from the Select Committee on Roads and Bridges, and printed by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Wednesday, we gave the substance of the Evidence before the Select Committee on Roads and Bridges, in so far as it relates to the state of our public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—The subject of the publio roads being under your consideration, you may permit me to direct your attention to tramroads: which, formed of broad flat slabs,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE yesterday gave the substance of so much of the replies as relates to the present condition of our public roads and bridges, and to the expediency of erecting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—It is perfectly true that the roads are in a state disgraceful to an English colony; but I will not take upon myself to decide which limb of the constitution in particular is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A deadly feud subsisted, almost from time immemorial, between the families of M'Pherson, of Bendearg, and Grant of Cairn, and was handed down "unimpaired" even to the close of last century. In…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Saturday last, a series of accidents, causing detentions of various trains, and, in one instance, at least, attended with most serious consequences, both in personal injuries and in the destruction of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W. W. FAIRBAIRN has detailed to the British Association, certain experiments on Railway Gradients, the object of which was to determine the power of adhesion of the locomotive…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The discovery of a good practicable road for wool teams from the south end of the Darling Downs to the head of the navigation at Ipswich, which world cbviatc the necessity for sending the drays by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PURSUANT to notice, a meeting was held at the Court House, Penrith, on Wednesday last, for the purpose of considering the state of a great portion of the Great Western or Bathurst Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The same mail that enclosed the President's Message and martial news from Mexico, brings tidings of peaceful progress in connection with the ramifications of railways in the New World,…
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