A Train Full of Horrors
A horrid narrative has appeared in the Times, describing a railway scene in the State of Georgia. Its insertion was delayed for some days that the editor of the paper might obtain satisfactory…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1857
177 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 9
Common Roads. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Although it appears that Sir W. Denison has determined that we shall either have railroads or no roads, there are still a great many colonists who imagine that railways will not and cannot wholly…
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SIR,—Another great defect in the present road system lies in the irregularity of the intervals at which repairs are made or attempted. Mouey spent upon them ia in a great measure wasted, because it has boen too…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Modern "Fast" Conversation. (From the Train.)
Fitzgubbins meets a friend in Regent-street, Each is arrayed gorgeously in sack coats, and suicidal allrounder collars, &c. Why does Fitz, address his friend as "old fellow?" His friend is, to his own discomfort,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Common Roads. No. III. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR—If it be conceded that those who use a road should contribute to its cost and maintenance, there are several modes by which the payments might be collected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Credit Mobilier of France Undertakes to Construct Railways in Russia
THE London Evening Sun of 10th November devotes a somewhat lengthy article to the present state of the financial affairs of France and England, in the course of which it affirms that a stagnation, in even the most…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bill for the Suppression of Sunday Excursions by Railway. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—The moral character of the measure referred to in the heading of this communication might seem to offer, at the hands of its supporters, a guarantee that their efforts in furtherance of the object advocated would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parliamentary Paper. Railway Through Appin to Mittagong. (Correspondence relative to line surveyed by Mr. Shone.) No. 1. Sir T. L. Mitchell to the Colonial Secretary. Surveyor-General's Office, Sydney, 27 February, 1847
SIR,âAs a railway line to Goulburn has been much under the public attention, I beg leave to suggest, for the consideration of his Excellency the Governor, that the preliminary surveys necessary on such…
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THE half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held to-day, in the society's offices, Lloyd's Chambers. The Hon. George Allen, Esq., in the chair. The following report was read, and unanimously adopted…
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JANUARY 20.—A public meeting, convened by J. E. Stacey, Esq., the warden, in consequence of a requisition addressed to him, was held last evening at the Union Inn, at Honeysuckle Point, near Newcastle, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature "against…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parramatta Railway Abuses. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Allow me to expose, through the medium of your valuable columns, an abuse in this establishment, of which, having been within the last six months, twice a sufferer, I may reasonably suppose exists to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gigantic Frauds on the Great Northern Railway. (From the Globe, November 13.)
Great consternation has been [?] among[?] officials of the Great Northern Railway by the discovery, of a series of most extensive frauds—frauds which throw the defalcations of William James Robson on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway to Bathurst. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Having seen it states in the Morning Herald, of 20th December last, that the survey of a line of railway to Bathurst had been completed, I beg to state that it is the best that has ever been made in so far as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Western Line of Railway, and the General Policy; of Government Railway Extension. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—A short time ago a paragraph appeared in the papers, containing the information from the railway surveyors, employed upon the projected western line, that they had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Through Appin, to Mittagong. To the Editor of the Empire
SIR—The Herald of January 30th contains, under the above beading, what purports to be the "Correspondence relative to the line surveyed by Mr. Shone." As the parliamentary intelligence informs us that, some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Gigantic Fraud on the Great Northern Railway. (From the Weekly Dispatch, November 23.)
On Tuesday, James Charles Comyns Kent, the clerk who stands remanded on the charge of being concerned with Redpath, late the registrar and transferer of stock to the Great Northern Railway, of forging a certain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways in Australia
A communication has been addressed to the Times relative to the making of railways in Australia, and the expectation that English capital will be attracted by the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 52 →Robbery of Bullion on a Railway. [From Our London Correspondent.]
In the whole annals of perhaps there cannot be found a more carefully, skilfully, and successfully managed plan for committing a robbery on a large scale, than that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Melbourne and Geelong Railway. (From the Melbourne Herald, February 18.)
It will be gratifying to our readers to know that the Molbourne and Geelong Railway is being carried on with such rapidity as to lead us to hope that the permanent way as far as the junetion of the Williamstown line will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Estimates for the Roads. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Can you, or can anybody, tell upon what principle it is that the Estimates for the Roads have been kept back till two months of he longest days and finest weather have been subtracted from 1857?…
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