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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
65 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 4
Nothing gives us more sincere pleasure than seeing the most influential gentlemen in our community taking an interest in any thing novel that promises to be of service to the community, and it was with much satisfaction that we witnessed his Excellency the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Parliamentary proceedings of 1849, in respect to Railways, have been marked by the same caution as those of the preceding year; a caution which, if exhibited earlier, would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GENTLEMEN,—Among all the papers which I have seen written on the subject of Colonial Railways, and published in your journal, I have not seen one very important point alluded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE public importance of the project for establishing railways in this colony has been solemnly recognised by the Legislature. In the preamble of the Act to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—There is one circumstance in connection with the Railway, which seems not to attract the public attention, and that is, that every shareholder is, to the extent of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LIGHT locomotives, requiring a line of ra[?] not so expensively constructed, and consuming a less amount of fuel, offer encouragement for the formation of cheap local railways. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are happy to understand that the shareholders of the above Company have this week given ample assurance of their zeal for the speedy commencement of the work, by responding to the call lately made upon them; and in many honorable instances have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OUR neighbours in South Australia are so much alive to the importance of easy transit to and from the interior, that besides the sums already expended on road making in that thriving Colony, the Governor has put upon the estimates an additional £30,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE FIRST TRAIN THROUGH MENAI STRAITS.—TUESDAY AFTERNOON.—The opening of this magnificent structure came off this day, with the grandest…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE letter of a correspondent in another part of this day's ADVOCATE displays a laudible curiosity as to the prospective traffic on the railway, if confined in the meantime only to the County of Cumberland. His doubts, in as far as regards its extension to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR, -- I have always desired the establishment of railways here, but feared there would not be trade enough to make a railway to Goulburn a paying concern. Your last week's account of the traffic from that quarter has dispelled my doubts on that point;…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday witnessed the completion of one of those great works of human ingenuity which attest in imperishable characters the glory of science and the grandeur of civilization. Silence upon an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Looking at railways as installments and agents in social and popular improvement, we find that the lines at present in action throughout the United Kingdom furnish respectable and remunerative…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →GENTLEMEN,—Will you be good enough to inform the public through the medium of your valuable columns, whether, at the ceremony of turning the first turf, on Wednesday next,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS day, the most important work ever undertaken in this colony is to be commenced. The first turf of the Sydney Railway is to be turned, and from the great interest which has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia, young as she is amongst the nations of the world, has yet in her brief history, one scarcely beyond the span of man's life—many proud eras to look back to with pride as being dates whence her present wonderful…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY was a great day for Australia. The first railway was commenced. [?]e is not now a question of whether we shall have railways, but how many miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →YESTERDAY the turning of the first turf of the first Australian Railway was accomplished, and the ceremony was performed by the daughter of the Governor of the colony, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WEDNESDAY last being the day fixed upon for the actual commencement of the first Australian Railway, was most anxiously looked forward to by thousands of the good citizens of Sydney…
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