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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
209 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 11
THE investigation into the mysterious chil[?]l-murder at the Road has entered upon a new phase. On the 27th September the magistrates at Trowbridge issued awarrant for the apprehension of Elizaboth Cough, the nurse…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thee question of railway extension, as one of the most important matters connected with our social progress, has been brought prominently forward by the candidates for the various constituencies during…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,-I believe that very many of your readers who have noticed your account of the meeting of the Philosophical Society, on Wednesday last, will agree with me in thinking that the short paper which the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—You were good enough to insert my rough calculations on the subject of tramways; may I ask a similar favour for a few remarks on the other side of the question—the cost of carriage by the ordinary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A correspondent signing himself " Common Sonse" sends the following letter to the Times:— There are certain points connected with the Road murder which do not appear to me to have been sufficiently dwelt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Mr. W. Scott enquires the cost of carriage by the ordinary railway, and the calculations arrived at are by night trains with slow powerful engines nearly "threepence per ton per mile." Contracts are made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Will you permit me to correct an error in your remarks in last Friday's Herald, respecting the Bellambi tramway, you say "the laden trucks descend by their own gravity." This is only true as to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT seems to us now strange that until 1736 (not much more than a century ago), notwithstanding the inconvenience of old London Bridge, the increase of trade, and the great extension of the west end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Frome correspondent of the Morning Post gives the substance of a statement which Mrs. Kent and Mr. Parsons, the surgeon, volunteered to make, but which the Bench declined to receive — "Mrs. Kent, with the view…
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