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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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On Saturday last, the Dauntless steam frigate which has just been fitted up with machinery by our respected fellow-citizen, Robert Napier, Esq., performed her first trial trip,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GEORGE STEPHENSON cannot be allowed to pass into his grave withont a tribute of regret and admiration. It has been his high destiny to be the main instrument in effecting one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—Having noticed a paragraph in your issue of the 20th December last, headed Wollongong, when the writer, with one fell swoop, censures his Excellency the Governor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Resolution pledging the Legislative Council of this colony to guarantee, so far as that branch of the Legislature is concerned,the regular payment of a dividend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—A sum of money (I forget the exact amount,) was voted by the Legislative Council in their last session towards repairing the Southern Road, but still the worst paris…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BIRMINOHAM, SEPTEMBER 8. — On Wednesday one of the new wrought iron bowstring bridges, Constructed for the Blackwall Suspension Line under the superintendence of the engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is with some surprise, and much regret, that we observe a backwardness on the part of the Native Community in giving that support to the Railway now projected betwixt Bombay and Kallian, which so noble an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE general advantages of constructing a railroad to connect the two oceans through the heart of the United States consists in the fact, never lost [?] of [?] that country, that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]DON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6.—Last it [?]ssed a new and highly-important [?]t, illustrative of the feeling with [?] [?]gration to Australia is being viewed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE we last wrote on this subject, about a month ago, we rejoice to find, by the public announcement of the Provisional Committee, that the Government have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALTHOUGH the spirit of the age is eminently enterprising, and seems on a cursory observation to be all buoyancy and triumph, there can be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following railway statistics, which we take from the Banker's Magasine, will be found very interesting at the present time: — CAPTIAL ACTUALLY RAISED…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT having been intimated that Mr. Charles Cowper proposed meeting the residents of this town and district, and detailing to them the progress made by the Provisional Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With muscular arm and strong, (Bedecked in my corduroys), The box and the crate I lug along, And the heavy portmanteau poise…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →IN 1825 no less an authority than the Quarterly Review thus prophecied:—" As to those persons who speculate on making railways generally throughout the kingdom, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →First Class.âHe arriveth in a cabâhe hath much luggage, and he payeth money from a silk purse, glittering with steel beads; he walketh up and down the platform with a military…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WE were invited, this day, March 2, to attend a committee meeting in connexion with the formation of the projected railway and tramroad from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have read with mingled surprise and regret the report, published in yesterday's Herald, of the proceedings at the meeting held on the 2nd instant by the Coulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE enormous difficulties which have [?] our railway system from its birth, and which threatened rather to increase than to give way, have prepared the public for the important…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE performances of another new steamer, the Llewellyn, built for the Holy head and Dublin line, have renewed the astonishment so lately excited by the Banshee…
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