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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
209 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 11
"Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just; And he, though naked, is looked up in steel Whose conscience is approving." As I believe you look foward with some degree of interest to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In the second portion of your leader of Saturday, you devote considerable space to year remarks on the affairs of the Penrith Nepean Bridge Company, and the promptitude with which the Legislature has enabled them to[?]in reduce their bill to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following official reply to the petition of the inhablitants of Windsor with reference to this matter has been received by Mr. Walker, M.P., and Mr. Piddington, M.R Department of Lands, Sydney, June 20th, 1860…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting was held at the Empire Hotel, Kiandra, on Monday, the 18th instant, in consequence of a report having reached some parties that the Government had, in answer to a memorial addressed to them by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting was held at the Empire Hotel, K[?], on the 18th instant, in consequence of a report having reached some parties that the Government had, in an answer to a memorial addressed to them by the Tumut people, expressed their [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following resdolutions, founded upon the evidence lately taken before the har of the Legislative Assembly, have been placed on the business paper by Mr. Parkes, and will come on for diecuesion this afternoon:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Seeing that the publie are now taking some interest in the question of railway extensions and their management, I take the liberty of troubling yon with a few observations on what appears to me to be the cause…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Great Northern Railway is at last about to pass beyond Maitland, and our terminus will now become but a station. The first instalment of the extension north-wards—viz,, an additional seven miles, to Locbinvar—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE are informed that a Company of gent[?]men are about to make a proposition to the Government to constuct an iron tubular bridge across the Nepean River at. P[?] rith. It is to be seven feet above the last flood mark,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Great Western Railway will, as the public have been duly informed, be opened for traffic to-day as far the Blacktown Road, a distance of about eight miles from its junction with the Southern line, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SHORTLY after ten o'clock, on Saturday morning, a special train, comprising three first-class carriages, with engine ond tender, left the railway station at Sydney with a select party of gentlemen, chiefly members of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE public will learn with considerable surprise, and no less dissatisfaction, that the extension of the Great Western Railway as far as the Blacktown Road, upon which it was advertised that trains would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THIS morning opened very cold and bleak, but, however, promised fair for holiday-seekers. Every one appeared in the dark as to what the programme was to be for celebrating the opening of the railway, no…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR readers, and the pabilc generally, will learn, with regret, that tbe extension of the Great Western Railway, which was to have been opened to Blacktown yesterday, for public traffic, was not opened, in consequence of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The extention of the Western Railway to Blackdown, recently completed by Mr. Gibbons, was to have been opened on Monday, but great was the disappointment on learning that the event was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have the satisfaction of stating that in the course of yesterday morning a definite arrangement was entered into between the Government and Mr. Gibbons in reference to the dispute which prevented…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE are glad to be enabled to state that the collision which was anticipated between the railway authorities and the contractor for the Great Western Railway did not take place yesterday. At a late hour on Monday evening, a number of navvies under the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—As the subject of communication with our southern boundary is under discussion just now, a significant fact that has come under my notice this day may not be out of place. A custemer of mine from the above place having made purchase…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE stated in cut yesterday's issue that in consequence of representations made on Tuesday morning to the Government they had determined not to press the charge against Mr. Gibbons for his having obstructed…
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