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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
175 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 9
SIR,—I see by a report in your paper of to-day that a meeting was held about railway management last night, and that a Mr. Garland "complained much of the frequent and arbitrary changes in the fares which had taken place, they having been altered ten…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DECEMBER 1.—In travelling along the noted mountain road of which so much has been said and written, particularly as to their general management, &c., I learned that the Chief Commissioner had recently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS important measure, which was assented to on the 24th of November, consists of one hundred and forty-one sections, the last being the interpretation clause. We append a summary of its provisions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following table, compiled from the English "Bradshaw" for November, 1856, shows the cost per mile on the principal lines of railway in the United Kingdom—the average being a fraction under 2¼d…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT length a movement has been made in a right direction, and there is a probability of some reform taking place in the hitberto grossly mismanaged affairs of the Railways of the colony…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I observe by your journal of yesterday, that the great railway- fares- reducing demonstration, with which the public in general, and the Railway Commissioners in particular, have so long been threatened, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—I was one among the select few present at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday last, when railway fares and railway management were discussed, and I was one of several others who were not a little astonished at hearing Mr. Holroyd's very emphatic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Believing that the remarks expressed at various-times in your journal on the above subject have been the genuine and spontaneous productions of the writers themselves, and are therefore the result of honest convictions—and believing, from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In your Impression of this morning, there is a letter signed "The Whole Truth," in which an attempt is made to extract from me an explanation of an alleged mis-statement, of something I am reported to have said at the railway meeting, held at the Lyceum…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Will you give a plain man room for a few worlds, in reply to the letter of Mr. Maurice Reynolds, in your issue of to-day, on railways and their management. Putting aside a good deal of Bankum, are not the real questions…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Right is right. I am not a resident upon the Southern Railway, and I have therefore no personal interest in travelling by it, far next to nothing at my own cost, and the remainder at that of the colony in general…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Many a time of late, as, rubbing our hands, we have passed briskly to our accustomed seat, at once by the fire-place and the breakfast table; many a time has that tall, dark man's figure, seen in that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR,—One of the advocates of the Railway Commissioners, whose letter appeared in the Herald of Satarday last, beginning and ending with "Right is Right," has adopted a most novel way of defending his clients. He says the evidence of the speakers at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE state of railway property is exciting great interest, on account of its exceedingly depreciated aspect; and the interest is felt not only by the unlucky victims, the "original…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Will you allow me, through the medium of your columns, to direct the attention of our Alderman to the approach of Pyrmont Bridge? The road has been in the same disgraceful and dangerous state…
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