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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
209 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 11
SIRâYou were kind enough to give publicity some time ago to letters of mine suggesting the necessty of a survey of a proposed line of railway to the western districts through the Kurrajong. Now that the survey of the Grose River has nearly arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—I neglected to state, in the letter published to-day on this subject, the principle on which I propose to pass the mountain chain by rail to the western interior. Any one who will take the trouble to glance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A RETURN has been furnished, at our request, from the Department of Internal Communication of the number of excursion tickets issued on the Great Southern Railway during the Christmas and New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The line of rails at Bagillt, on the Chester and Holyhead line of railway, was washed away by the sea on Wednesday morning. The telegraph posts have been blown down, and communication with Holyhead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE construction of railways in New South Wales is now almost entirely carried on by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts. Their contracts embrace altogether fifty-one miles, of which nineteen and a half are southward, from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—The table of fares of the Great Southern Railway for the mouth of January is a curiosity of its kind. From Sydney to Haslam's Creek the charge for the third class is 1s. 6d., to Parramatta 1s. 6d.—that is, 3d. less…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the eighth half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this Company, held yesterday, the following report was read and ado[?]ted. "The directors lay before the shareholders the accounts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAPTAIN Douglas Galton's report on the Rail ways of the United Kingdom for 1858, although exhibiting an amount of railway enteprise below the average of many years, is, as usual, an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEWCASTLE, 31st January.—A fatal occurrence took place this morning, at half-past nine o'clock, on the Great Northern line. The train left West Maitland at nine o'clock, for Newcastle, and proceeded at its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →F[?]BRUARY 1ST.—I sent yesterday morning a necessarily hurried account of a dreadful occurrence which had just taken place on the Great Northern Railway, near Hexham. The absence of Dr. Knagge, the coroner, on the business of another…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Having observed last week on advertisement signed "B. H. Martindale" in your paper, in which it was stated that on the 28th instant, tickets would issue "from the usual Stations at single fares for the double journey," I applied for two tickets at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—In the month of February, last year, I read in your paper a detailed account of the road from Twofold Bay to Bombala over the mountains; it appeared to have been written by a surveyor, who had been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—The separation of Queensland has rendered the colony of New South Wales more than ever dependent on the development of her own internal resources. This object, it is evident, is only attainable by the extension of railways, thereby rendering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—When a grievance is real I believe your columns are always open for a statement of it, and the following facts will, I think, convince you that the public who travel by the railroad to Campbelltown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There is no feature of importance to notice in the progress of railway construction since our last monthly summary was published. Excepting a small portion of the Western extension, now nearly completed, the whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—"A Buffer," whose letter appears in your last issue, must be very hard up indeed for a grievance, when he "hangs out" on the reduction in the rates between Sydney and Parramatta. On reference to the tables, I find that the rates are at so much…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →AT the head of the navigable water of the devious Hunter, about three miles from East Maitland, stands the flourishing township and free port of Morpeth, distant twenty-nine miles, by water, from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The news that has reached us from Nelligen and the different places on the Clyde Road is very serious. We learn that the river rose to such an extent that Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Allow me a space in your journal to call the attention of the members of the Assembly and the public generally to the great inequality of the pay of the railway surveyors. From the Estimates passed in the House last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—On reading the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, in answer to a question by the member for Canterbury, that a survey and plan of the said bridge had been ordered,—it has been suggested to the writer, that…
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