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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
175 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9
Every district in Australia has its own particular climate, soil, and meteorological phenomena. The correctness of this sapient observation could in no way be better illustrated than by an overland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR — A great commorcial and financial operation has recently been cuncluded at A viennu, which is of great importance, not only in an industrial but in apolitlcnl point of view, one which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The different railway companies are accustomed to publish their weekly receipts in the newspapers. The receipts of railways are now worthy of interest, not only on account of the commercial movement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LEAVING Elisavetgrad about six o'clock, we passed through Adjamka, a village on the road, and reached Alexandria about two o'clock after midnight, glad to put up at the post-house, and bo relieved from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The excitement of the journey had tended to keep off a fever which I had felt about me for some time, but which now attacked me with some violence. As I had not anticipated such a circumstance, I had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINGR we last wrote upon this subject, a great change has come over the aspect of the mode of constructing the Railways in the colony. The Committee which sat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FEAT, equalled only in importance by the difficulties which attended it, was accomp ished yesterday forenoon by Mr. Randle, railway contraetor, and the men in his employ. For some time past the completion of the railway between Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. WENTWORTH'S mantle seems to have fallen on a writer in the SYDNEY UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, as far at least as this gentleman's opposition to the introduction of Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NOTHING could illustrate more forcibly the value and importance of the Overland Stage Line than the strong hold it has already taken upon the popular favour. The energetic feeling in its behalf must not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—An article appeared in the first number of the Sydney University Magazine on the subject of Railways, which might have remained unnoticed, had you not made it the basis of a long leading article in a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Your correspondent "Locomotive" appears to be somewhat unnecessarily rate at the article on railways in the Sydney University Magazing. I say "unnecessarily," because the intelligent portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Among the many erroneous arguments and calculations with which the article on Railways in the Sydney University Magazinc abounds, there is one that stands out more prominently than the rest. It is, that the average rate of carriage now being paid…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IF we were asked to name the subject which we consider to be, at the present time, of the greatest importance to these colonies, we should answer, the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday afternoon, upon the invitation of Mr. Randle, the Contractor, a large party of gentlemen, together with the workmen employed upon the Sydney Railway and their families, met at Long Cove…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—An article which made its oppearance in our juvenile Universty Magazine has met, I believe, with much more notice than it deserved, from the fact of your having called attention to it in a late leading…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In conversation with a friend from the Lower Murrumbidgee, I learn that he has been plying, thisyear, the monstrous rates of 25s. per ewt, for the carriage of wool to Sydney from his station, near Wagga Wagga, and 40s. per ewt. for the carriage of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—Mr. Norton's letter commenting on the article in the University Magasine on railways, contains some important truths. That the expense and labour of keeping the ordinary ronds of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—I observe in your impression of yesterday a letter signed J, Norton in which I am censured for not considering railways in their moral and religious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE article on Railways in the first number of Sydney University Magazine, and which we now purpose to review, is altogether a remarkable production. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The details of the railway scheme suggested by Sir Charles Hotham scarcely demand consideration at present. They are liable to such cutting and carving in committee—and indeed, that they may be…
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