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Railways, roads & transport, 1849

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English News. Britannia Tubular Bridge. Menai Straits, July 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 November 1849 · page 2

THE preparations here for performing the important and perilous operations of hoisting this enormous fabric to its permanent position over the straits are on a scale of immense magnitude,…

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Sydney Railway

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 24 November 1849 · page 6

THE practicability of establishing by means of Railways a cheap and speedy transit of goods and passengers to and from the interior of this colony, and thus enabling our distant inland producers to compete on fair terms…

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Bell's Life in Sydney. Sydney, November 24, 1849. The Railway Job!!! "I am the Railway King. Ha! Ha!" Hudson's Comic Wa[?]bler

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 24 November 1849 · page 2

THAT the small balance remaining in the hands of the Directors of the Sydney Railway Company is ludicrously insufficient to provide for the "kingly" salary…

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Original Correspondence. the New Road to the Wollombi. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 November 1849 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Having been on the new road now forming to the Wollombi, perhaps a few remarks upon it may be interesting to your readers…

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Frightful Accident at the Britannia Bridge

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 1 December 1849 · page 7

We have just received the following melancholy intelligence from a trustworthy correspondent:-- "Bangor, Friday evening, August 17,1849. " "All the fond and desired hopes of a a successful…

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Meetings of Railway Companies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 December 1849 · page 4

As the results of the meetings of railway companies at the present moment are of considerable interest to the proprietors generally, we give a brief review of such as have been held…

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The Panama Railway. (From the Times, August 3.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 December 1849 · page 3

A PAMPHLET has been issued by the Panama Railroad Company, whose list of directors comprises several of the leading merchants of New York, giving an explicit detail of the present…

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News From the Interior. (From our Correspondent.) Goulburn, Pu[?]lic Meeting of the Railway Sha[?]olders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 December 1849 · page 2

ACCORDING to requisition, there was a meeting held this day (December 4) in the Goulb[?]n Hotel, at one o'clock P.M. On the mot[?] John Edge, E[?]q., J.P., W. P. Faithfull, E[?]…

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THE Sydney Morning herald. Monday, December 10, 1849. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am [?]." the Goulburn Railway Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 December 1849 · page 2

IF ever a Company destined to accomplish great results has been successfully carried through its earliest stages amidst hosts of surrounding difficulties of the most…

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The Railway Line. a Parody. AIR—The Sea

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 December 1849 · page 1

The Line! the Line! the wondrous Line! The firm, the safe, the work so fine; Without a jolt, without a bound, We're wafted through the scenes around:…

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