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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
175 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 9
SIR.—The paragraph in your paper of this morning, announcing the intended opening or the Railway on the 28th instant, is I suppose semi-official, and therefore authentic, although I think the Commissioners ought to give an official intimation of so important…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An unfortunate accident happened yesterday, which will probably defer still longer that oft-deferred event, the opening of the Sydney and Parramatta Railway. This was no less than the falling in of the bridge newly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A large number of men are actively engaged in repairing the damage done to the railway bridge at Cleveland and Botany Streets, by the accident on Tuesday, and every exertion is being made to push on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Is there no virtue extant?" asks Falstaff We think that the prompt determination of the Legislative Council in appointing a Committee in spite of the alternate cajolery and brow-beating…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A great portion of the newly erected bridge over the Railway at Botany and Cleveland-streets, Chippendale, fell in on Tuesday last The circumstances of the accident are as follows:…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →And as I pondered thus in wild amaze, A merry band of youths and maidens bright, Whose eyes young Love had field with passion's blaze, Bore me along that pathway full of light,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Railway between Sydney and Parramatta is to be opened on Wednesday next -- a great day it will be for the Colony of New South Wales. It was thought by some that the falling in of a portion of the tunnel at Chippendale on Tuesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It will be remembered that on the occasion of the visit of his Excellency the Governor-General to Parramatta, four weeks ago, a memorial, signed by 265 of the inhabitants of that town, was presented to him, relative…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN an Extraordinary to the Government Gazette, issued yesterday afternoon, the Governor-General has issued the following notices:- Colonial Secretary's Office,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Government Gazette Extraordinary, published yesterday, contains the subjoined official notices with respect to the opening of the Sydney and Paramatta Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE event of yesterday was the triumph, not only of science over natural difficulties, but of the spirit of enlightenment and civilization over prejudice and worldly mindedness…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to the announcements previously made, the Sydney and Parramatta Railway was yesterday formally opened for public traffic. Great exertions have been made of late to press forward the works to completion,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE inauguration of the first great Australian Railway is an event that will hold a lasting place in the records of New South Wales. It has fittingly fallen to the lot of the oldest of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IT will be remembered that some few months ago we strongly advised the inhabitants of the district of Illawarra to make some movement towards having a bridge erected over the Macquarie, or as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →According to the announcements previously made, the Sydney and Parramatta Railway was on Wednesday opened for public traffic. The day was pretty generally observed as a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"WEDNESDAY last, the 26th of September, in the current year, will be a day long memorable in the annals of Australia. The day on which our first line of railway was opened…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The late Daniel O'Connell in his opening address to the various vast assemblages of people, over whom he presided invariably, made use of these words -- "Faith, my boys, this is a great day for Ould Ireland." We cannot do better than adopt…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MUCH to the disappointment of thousands, Wednesday turned out just the sort of the day that we recollect, in our school-boy times, used to greet us for every long anticipated pic-nic or other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I observe in this morning's Empire a letter advocating the claim of Mr. Cowper to a testimonial upon the completion of the railway to Parramatta; it seems that there are " two Richmonds in the field!"—Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"THE lapse of time is scarcely more perceptible than the changes which accompany its rapid flight. It is only by looking backward to some fixed point that we can realize its progress, and from retrospection alone…
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