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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1852

82 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 5

The Sydney Railway Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1852 · page 2

YESTERDAY, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, in pursuance of advertisement, the half-yearly general Meeting of the shareholders of the Sydney Railway Company was held at the…

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Sydney Railway Company—half-yearly Meeting

Empire · Wednesday 7 January 1852 · page 3

The half-yearly meeting of thsa Company was held yesterday, at the Royal Hotel, Charles Kemp, Kan., President, in the chair. The attendance waa very thin, and some…

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Domestic Intelligence. Sydney Railway Company

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 January 1852 · page 9

On Tuesday, a meeting of the shareholders of the Sydney Railway Company, was held at the Royal Hotel, a very small number of the shareholders attended…

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Railway Anarchy. (From the Spectator, August 30.)

Empire · Thursday 8 January 1852 · page 4

Between two and three hundred millions sterling has been expended on the construction of railways in this country; the total extent of lines is 6464 miles; the…

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Sydney Railway Company

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 January 1852 · page 6

On Monday the usual half-yearly meeting of this Company was held at the Royal Hotel. There were very few shareholders present. Charles Kemp, Esq., president, in the chair. Mr. Spyer objected to the hour, 11 A.M., as being very…

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An Army of Monkeys—a Novel Suspension Bridge

Empire · Wednesday 14 January 1852 · page 4

They are coming towards the bridge; they will most likely cross by the rocks yonder,' observed Raoul, How—swim it?' I asked, 'It is a…

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English Extracts, the Railway Secretary. (A Sketch of Character.)

Empire · Saturday 17 January 1852 · page 4

The railway Secretory first emerged from his crysalis a lean sud bungry creature, fit to counterfeit one of Cassio's conspiritors. Born of the…

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Railways in Egypt—the Sultan and Abbas Pasha. (From the News of the World, October 19.)

Empire · Monday 9 February 1852 · page 3

For the purposes of traffic, for the benefit of commerce, and as a means of facilitating intercourse between England and its great empire of India, an…

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The Penrith Nepean Bridge Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1852 · page 2

The first general meeting of the shareholders was held at the Rose Inn, Penrith, 4th instant, Edward King Cox, Esq., J.P., chairman. The following report of the Provisional…

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Ireland and the Irish—a Prize Concert on a Small Scale—a Woman Out O' Countenance—"dancing and Deportment"—the Clashing Colleges—railway Ramblings—death From Cold. Stoneybatter, Nov. 6th. 1851

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 March 1852 · page 5

I quite disremembered, dear Thady, to mintion in my last that a few o' the good boys and myself (I'm not the worst amongst 'em, the' I say it) had a mighty pleasant…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, March 16, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Railway Company

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 March 1852 · page 2

WHILE looking over the old files of our paper for some other interesting matter, we find that on the 23rd of February, 1847, we asked the pensive public "if…

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Roads and Road Making

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 20 March 1852 · page 9

CONSIDERABLE excitement, all of a sudden, (as impulses of every kind always arise in Australia in-stanter,) has been descernible, both outside and inside the Legislative Council, touching the great…

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(By Special Train.) the Times Office, 4 o'clock, a. m. PARIS, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 4 p.m

Empire · Tuesday 23 March 1852 · page 2

You will already, I trust, have received submarine telegraph a summary of the news of the extraordinary events have passed he this morning. With every disposition to…

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Bridge Across the Macquarie

Empire · Tuesday 13 April 1852 · page 2

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Bathurst, held pursuant to advertisement last Tuesday, it was agreed to petition his Excellency the Governor-General to place a sum of money on the…

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The Whole Duty of Railway Directors

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 17 April 1852 · page 1

Don't you, however, be discouraged, but work your line cheap. You will save more than you'll have to pay when the smash does come. Upon our own line we expect soon to be able to…

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The Liverpool Road Diggings. (From our Ordinary Reporter.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 April 1852 · page 2

BEING ordered out this morning to ascertain the truth of Mr. Moore's report of the Liverpool Road Diggings, our reporter immediately proceeded to make the necessary arrangements…

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Original Correspondence. Liverpool Road Diggings. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 April 1852 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—In the paragraph relative to the supposed Liverpool Road Diggings in your paper of this date, your very facetious reporter mentions that among the people congregated…

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Poetry for the People. the Right Road, [?] Thomas Davis

Empire · Thursday 29 April 1852 · page 4

Let the feeble-hearted pine, Let the sickly sprit-whine, But work and win he thine, While you've life…

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A Railway Jubilee. (From the New York Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1852 · page 2

BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 19.—The last of the "Three Days" is drawing to a close, and in a few brief hours the "Grand Railway Jubilee" will be matter of history…

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European Roads

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 May 1852 · page 5

The Stelvio road, which is the highest in Europe practicable for carriages, being 9272 feet above the sea level, and 2300 feet, or nearly half a mile perpendicular above the…

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