The Railway Question
YES—and what of it? Last year it made a great noise and excited a great stir. Meetings after meetings were held—eloquent speeches delivered—elaborate…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1847
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The Railway Question
IN our observations on this subject on Saturday last, we showed cause why assistance ought to be afforded by the Legislative Council. The first step suggested…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Irish Railways. (From the Times, February 15.)
THE glory and the misfortune of Ireland is that vivid imagination which gives so much life to the conceptions of the mind and the utterance of the tongue…
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IN the House of Commons, on Monday, Mr. Mackinnon wished to know from the President of the Board of Control why the terms which had been offered to the two…
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THE following letter, from Mr. Woore to the Provisional Railway Committee, has been handed to us for publication:— Pomercy, 14th June, 1817…
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Several years ago I was travelling from Edinburgh to London; we passed through Newcastle, and arrived at the end of our journey about eleven o'clock on a cold, snowy, and miserable night…
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COPY of Despatch from the Secretary of State, to His Excellency Sir Charles A. Fitz Roy. Downing-street, 26th February, 1847…
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The Derby, which is quite a national fete in England, was now about to come off; and I was about to make preparations with Newman for horses to be sent half way, that I might not have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, July 31, 1847. " Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Ministerial Encouragement of Colonial Railways
" I am fully sensible of the very great advantage which would result from the construction of railroads in the Australian colonies."—Earl Grey's Despatch to Governor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opening of Birkenhead Railway, Park, and Dock. (From the Morning Chronicle, April 6.)
YESTERDAY Birkenhead may be said to have entered into competition, or rather into articles of partnership, with Liverpool, the great north outlet and inlet of our foreign and…
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The Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 22nd May, 1846, and re-appointed on the 18th May, 1847, to inquire into, and report upon, the state of…
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Mr. WENTWORTH, in moving the second reading of the Roads Bill, did so with some hesitation, fearing that it would share the same fate which had been allotted to the measure…
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THE legislative session has now arrived at its eleventh hour; and yet with regard to one question of great and universal concernment, nothing whatever has been…
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We alluded briefly to this deplorable occurrence in our issue of the 23th ultimo. The following particulars front the Liverpool Times will be found of melancholy interest:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Esthetics. (From the Spectator.)
THAT we are undergoing a social transition, is manifested by nothing more than by the state of the fine arts; which having been divorced by the Puritanical movement from connexion with…
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Since our last considerable progress has been made in the colony on the important subject of railways. On Monday a meeting took place at the offices of the South Australian Company, William…
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The dawn of an autumn day was beginning to expose the havoc of a storm, the last gusts of which still shrieked through the s[?]ripped forests of Baun Regan, when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Original Correspondence. New Road to Illawarra. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—Permit me, through the medium of your valuable journal, to reply to Mr. M'Evoy's statement relative to his discovery of a new line of road from Appin to Illawarra,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Australia. Railway Progress. (From the South Australian Gazette; Sept. 25.)
On Monday a meeting took place at the offices of the South Australian Company, William Giles, Esq., in the chair; when after some discussion, it was moved…
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THAT the locomotive, which 30 years since was thought incapable of taking 20 tons at 15 miles an hour, is progressing towards perfection, will, we think, be admitted, when we state that…
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