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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
196 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 10
SIR,—As the time will shortly arrive when the new Parliament must meet to settle the affairs of the country, it may not be an inopportune time to draw the attention of hon. members of the Lower House to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. R. Stephenson, M.P., the president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, on taking the chair for the first time since his election, handed in an addross, which was read by the secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Among the various plans which have been suggested for the promotion of railway enterprise in this country, not the least deserving of attention is that of giving grants of land on each side of the proposed line of road,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At the inauguration of the City and Port Railway, at Adelaide, on the 19th instant, the Governor of South Australia, in responding to the toast-—"The health of his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief," made the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—You will be conferring a great favour on the public by taking into consideration the Time-table of the Railway for this month. The time that presses so inconveniently on us is the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This is the title of a projected railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific across Honduras, of which the details are given in a new work by Mr. E. G. Squier recently published. We have no intention in noticing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—A subject so frequently complained of, and not without good reasons, that any scheme to render them passable for the heavy loads constantly carried ever them, would be a desideratum of importance, not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At length the great depreciation of railway properly has roused the shareholders to make a common attempt to stop the car on its road to ruin. A meeting was held on Tuesday, at the London Tavern, to consider the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pursuant to advertisement, a meeting was held in the "Canterbury Arms," Canterbury, on Monday last, at 6 p.m., to take into consideration the best means for putting the road into something like a passable state, as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In a recent issue we animadverted at some length upon the disgraceful condition of the streets and thoroughfares of the town of Bathurst, and condemned the absurd policy of keeping in a state of demoralizing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The first meeting of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales took place on Friday evening, at 8 o'clock, in the new Hall of the School of Arts. His Excellency the Governor-General (presiding of the society) having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It has ever been one of the most powerful arguments in favour of Railways that the extra cost of their construction, in comparison with common roads, has been more than compensated by the permanent gain to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I was very much pleased with reading the paper prepared and read, as reported in your journal of yesterday, by his Excellency the Governor General, before the Philosophical Society, on the subject of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A large and influential meeting of the landholders and residents in and around Camperdown and Petersham, was held last evening, at Mr. Charles Hearn's, Baldfaced Stag, on the Parramatia-road, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This topic is one of growing importance here, and is not without its general interest, from its probable influence in connexion with Railway enterprise and the spirit of improvement in general, which cannot afford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Seeing in the Herald of the 7th a letter signed "Mudgee," concerning the bad roads; perhaps it may be as well to state over again my plan of a trough tramway, which was published in the Herald of 4th…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR—Seeing in the Herald of the 7th a letter signed Mudgee, concerning the bad roads, perhaps you will be kind enough to insert my plan for constructing tramways, which was published in the Herald of the 4th of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Wednesday afternoon last, the 21st instant, a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town and district of Windsor took place, pursuant to public advertisement, at the Fitz Roy Hotel, Windsor, for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An influential and well attended public meeting took place at the Fitz Roy Hotel, Windsor, on Wednesday last, at three o'clock p.m., for the purpose of adopting petitions to his Excellency the Governor-General and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Sydney Morning Herald of the 31st December ultimo was published an elaborate description of the new suspension bridge over the Macquarie River, connecting the village of Kelso with the town of Bathurst;…
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