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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
177 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 9
The Geelong and Williamstown Railway was opened tshs morning in the presence of Sir Henry Barkly, and a large number of local and colonial celebrities. The inaugural procession…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Ironbark Diggings extend, as I have said, down to the Wellington Road, where digging has been going on for a considerable time past. The main road from Bathurst to Wellington runs for some distance along…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS is an enterprise which at first sight appears gigantic, but its accomplishment, in the opinion of those who are acquainted with the localities, and have examined its capabilities, is considered comparatively…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A VERY numerous meeting was held on Friday evening, the 10th instant, Mr. M. M. Cohen in the chair, at Mr. Neich's, Burwood, to receive the report of a deputation appointed at a meeting held on April 21st,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The traffic returns of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway for the week ending the 2nd instant, give the number of passengers who made use of both lines at 12,597, and the total…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Daily News correspondent writes from Lisbon on the 8th of April, as follows:—"Sir Morton Peto, accompanied by Mr. Wilson, C.E., and Mr. Lloyd, returns to England in this packet. After a protracted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE select committee of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria appointed to investigate the railway question have recently brought up their fifth progress report, which contains the result of their enquiries into the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Ironbark Diggings extend, as I have said, down to the Wellington Road, where digging has been going on for a considerable time past. The main road from Bathurst to Wellington runs for some distance along…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting was held on, Saturday evening last at Mrs. Saddler's Inn, for the purpose of Loaring from Mr. S, Samuel, some information on the subject of communication with the metropolis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The Petersham station appears to he completed; we have got two very short platforms, constructed in the cheapest manner, and a box a few feet square for the station master to keep his books in; this is all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As we stated in a previous issue, the interesting ceremony of driving the first pile of the bridge at Queanbeyan was performed on Thursday, the 9th instant, in the presence of some hundreds of the inhabitants of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Half-yearly Meeting of this Company was held yesterday, pursuant to public notice, at which the following report was adopted:— In conformity with the requirements of the Deed of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Great Russian Railway scheme has been the principal financial topic during the week; and the interest of the public has received a slight impulse from the very marked intention of a morning journal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A WRITER in the Mudgee Newspaper of Wednesday last takes up this subject, which he discusses at length. The more this matter is examined, the greater likelihood there is of our arriving at a correct and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I beg to hand you a few extracts from a letter received in Sydney last week: "I am [?]enning this at a place called Binalong, after a tedious Journey by flood and field, or rather mud and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Through the medium of your paper, will you allow me to direct attention to the time of the arrival of our morning Railway trains from Liverpool, Parramatta, &c, which not only is a source of inconvenience…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE right of petition is one of those privileges to which Englishmen, with considerable reason, attach great value, and which, be it said, they occasionally assert in rather an undignified…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—At the dinner lately given by the people o Windsor to Mr. Darvall, that gentleman, in speaking of railways, said that "if any district in the country was entitled to a railway it was that of Windsor…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Saturday and Sunday the weather presented an overcast appearance, with every indication of rain. It commenced raining on Sunday evening, and continued to pour in torrents, with violent gusts of wind from the…
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