Pitt Street Tramway. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR,—I beg you will allow the insertion in your widely circulated newspaper of the following considerations with reference to the Pitt-street tramway…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1859
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Railway Terminus. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR,—It is very much to be deplored that the Railway Terminus has not been completed on the Darling Harbour Branch. As one of the termint, it ought, from its own merits, to have been established long since, seeing how centrical and convenient it would be…
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SIR—Latterly an almost continuous controversy is being carried on through the medium of the local Press, relative to the advisability of running a tramway from the railway terminus to some central part of the city…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Inconvenience. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Allow me, through the medium of your paper, to point out a great inconvenience experienced by railway travellers. I allude to sparks from the engine flying into the carriages, and entering the eyes, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accidents on Railways
DURING the half-year ended June 30th, 1859, nine persons were killed and eleven were injured on all the railroads of the United Kingdom open for traffic, by accidents, the causes of which were beyond their own…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Experiences of a London Bridge. (From All the Year Round)
I believe that, by this time, the public is pretty familiar with me; if not, I know this, that I am pretty familiar with the public. I have carried them on my back now for eight and twenty…
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IN the progress of railway construction during the past month there is little calling for remark. The contracts taken by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts comprise the principal portion of the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Tramway. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—A letter, signed "Locomotive," appears in your journal this day. Its object is to advocate the Southern Railway being continued up PART of the branch line to Darling Harbour,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney Railway Termini. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—For a length of time it has been very evident that the present terminus of the railway ought to he removed more into the city. It is clear also, that the cheapest and most, convenient way of doing this is by carrying out the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sydney Railway Termini. to the Editor of the Empire
SIR,—For a length of time it has been very evident the present Terminus of the Railway ought to be removed mor[?] the city. It is clear also that the cheapest and most convenicent…
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SIR,—For a long time it has been very evident that the present terminus of the railway ought to be removed more into the city. It is clear, also. that the cheapest and most…
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DOWN TRAINS. will leave Sydney at 8.30 a.m. and & p.m. for Campbelltown, and at 2.30 p.m. for Parramatta. UP TRAINS will leave Campbelltown for Sydney at 8.lb a.m. and 4.45 p.m.; from Parrmatta, 9.24 a.m., and 5.54 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Overturn the Railway Train.—most Infamous Proceedings
Alexander M'Donald and John Wallace were on Saturday and (by remand) on Wednesday brought before the Bench by Inspector Harrison, who deposed that on the previous afternoon, be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colonial Parliament. New South Wales. Legislative Assembly. Friday, December 2Nd. the Speaker took the chair at half-past three o'clock. Railway Reports
Mr. HAWKINS asked the Secretary for Lands when the reports of the survey of the valley of the Grose, or of any other line of railway to Bathurst, would be laid upon the table of this House?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Southern Railway Excursion Trains. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—My eye was casually drawn to an advertise[?] your issue of this morning's date, from the Commissioner of Railways, announcing that during the summer months there are to be excursion trains on the Southern Line…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railway Strikes. [From the Melbourne Herald.)
"WHEN things come to the worst they'll mend," so says the adage, at least. And if they are not now at the worst with regard to the railway strikes, they must inevitably soon reach it. A lifeand-death struggle between the contractors and the workmen on…
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The Committee appointed by the six associated Australian Banks as agents in this country of the Government of Victoria for the negotiation of the railway…
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THE operations of railway construction in progress in this colony consist of extensions of the metropolitan line southward and westward, and of the Hunter River line, which starts from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Darlinghurst Road. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Allow me through your columns to direct attention to the neglected and disgraceful condition of this important thoroughfare. During the last eighteen months, tenders have been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Bridge at Gundagai. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—A short time ago information was asked in the House, of the Secretary of Works, as to the steps taken by Government in reference to the construction of a bridge over the Murrumbidgee at Gundagai. The reply was not…
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