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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
175 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9
It is more than a century since old Westminster-bridge was opened for traffic to the public, and it is very nearly the same time since it fell into a state of chronic dilapidation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Pyrmont Bridge was yesterday for the first time thrown opan to the public. It had been made a question with the proprietary whether there should be a ceremony in commemoration of the event; but it was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEWCASTLE, MARCH 19.—The Chief Commissioner for Railways, accompanied by the Secretary and the Engineer-in-chief, arrived here this morning, for the purpose of opening the extension between Honeysuckle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—The arrangements made by or through the instrumentality of the traffic manager in order to meet the wishes of the residents along the railway line, whose duty called them to town by 9 o'clock a.m., drew forth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—I wish some one would tell me who is the Overseer of the Sydney Road Trust? The best piece of macadamized road on the line is now being picked up and re-made at great cost, whilst by Annandale Bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Knowing that a few lines in the Herald will sometimes do more to remedy an evil than innumerable protests of a less public character, I hope you will permit me, through your columns, to complain of a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following most interesting paper (says the Times,) was read at the Institution of Civil Engineers, on the 12th of January, by Mr. Joseph Locke, M.P., President of the Institution. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following is an outline of the chief provisions of the "Bill for managing and upholding the Main Roads of the Colony," about to be considered in Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—I have the honour to request your considerstion to the necessity of making provision, in the Government Railways Bill, now before the Legislature, for the audit of Railway Accounts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—I have the honour, by direction of the Right Worshipful the Mayor, to transmit herewith a copy of a Report received from the City Engineer, pointing out the difficulties which may arise in carrying out the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN accident attended with fatal consequences, occurred on the Campbelltown and Liverpool extension line of railway, on Saturday, the 17th April, of which the following are the particulars (as collected at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of gentlemen interested in wharf properties, situated above Pyrmont Bridge, was held on Tuesday, at the Exchange, for the purpose of taking into consideration the failure of the company in not complying with the requisitions of the Act, as to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. DOCKER moved, "That the petition from cer[?] inhabitants of Mudgee, praying that Mudgee may included in the provisions of the Main Roads Bill, [?]ted by him yesterday, be printed."…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—The follewing suggestions are offered with a view of rapidly constructing the railroads of the colony, and relieving the country of the expense of making them…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I hope it did not escape the notice of the projectors of the Campbelltown banque: and ball that many ladies of Sydney, who intend honouring the latter with their presence, would, in all probability,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE opening of that portion of the Great Southern Railway which has recently been constructed between [?] and [?] took place yesterday, amid the acclamations of a large mass of people…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The advantages of railways in a young country like this, unprovided with those natural means of communication which the great navigable streams in other parts of the world afford, are generally admitted, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have heard that the residents of Balmain have for some time been very anxious to get across the harbour from and to the City in a convenient manner, and at a fair charge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The ceremony of opening the new line of railway from Liverpool to Campbelltown took place on Tuesday last in the presence or a large concourse of visitors.[?] Excellency the Governor-General and suite, the Ministry,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—As the inventor of a new propulsive theory, or "alleged new motive power" discovered in Victoria which has been much and long agitated in that colony I have the honour to solicit of your Board, the favour of…
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