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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
196 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 10
A Contemporary at the gold-fields has recently estimated the annual cost of carriage to the diggings at £1,500,000 per annum, We are prepared neither to endorse nor dispute this statement, nor indeed are we…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MEETING was held in the Court House on Monday evening last, composed of Members, of Council, magistrates, and, in short, a large number of the inhabitants; though, strange to say, that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of the borough and district of Penrith, was held in that town, on the 1st instant, at Mr. Salmon's, the Rose Inn; the object of the meeting being to consider the steps…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A large and influential meeting of the inhabitants of the borough and district of Penrith, was held in that town, on the 1st instant, at Mr. Salmon's, the Rose Inn; the object of the meeting being to consider the steps…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wallachian Government have conceded to Messrs. Harber, of Vienna, the line from Orsova to Ibraila, or some other port, for ninety- nine years. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Geelong Advertiser of the 2nd instant, informs us that "engines have been snorting, scampering, screaming, and whistling about, experimentally, for the last few days, much to the enjoyment of the juveniles of Ashby,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Vauxhall Railway Station was totally destroyed by fire, on Sunday, April 13. At a quarter past 8 o'clock, the ordinary business of the station was proceeding, and passengers were in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Friday afternoon last a meeting was held at the Fitz Hoy Hotel, West Maitland, the attendance of all persons interested in the extension of the Newcastle Railway to West Maitland having been invited…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An adjourned public meeting of residents and landholders of Penrith was held on Tuesday last, at Mr. Salmon's, "Rose Inn," Penrith, to consider the propriety of urging upon the Government the advantages of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE general impression left on the mind by a perusal, of Professor, PELL'S paper on railways is an unsatisfactory one. We feel that the question has not been discussed on its real…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A public meeting of the residents and landholders of Petersham and its neighbourhood was held last evening, at Mr. Charles Hearn's, Bald Faced Stag Inn, Petersham, for the purpose of adopting measures for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON Friday evening a meeting was held in the Courthouse, West Maitland, to approve of a petition to the Legislature for the attainment of this object. On the motion of Dr. M'Cartney, the chair was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I beg you will allow me, a true Australian, and one who wishes to see the country of his birth adopt at once one of the greatest improvements of the age, and raise herself from a natural wilderness to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No ono in the Australian community, possessed of an ordinary share of common sense, can under-estimate the importance of a question which has been for so long a time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—There seems to have arisen lately, in Sydney, a great Railway Discussion, carried on by means of papers read to the Philosophical Society, newspaper letters, &c. The one side are gaining themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—I have read with great pleasure, and no little profit, the admirable essay of Professor Pell on the principles of railway economy. That essay, assisted by your excellent leader of the 14th instant, will open…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sm,—Your Melbourne Correspondent, in his letter published in the Sydney Murning Herald of the 7th current, has thought proper to adopt and give to your readers an exceedingly malicious imputation on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Saturday, a meeting was held at East Maitland, pursuant to advertisement, for the purpose of adopting measures to ensure the opening for public traffic of the railway immediately on its completion to East…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The paper read by Mr. Pell before the Philosophical Society, may perhaps tend to mislead some who do not look below the surface of an argument and it being necessary to the vital interests of the…
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