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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
209 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 11
OUR internal transit is becoming every year a question of the greatest importance to the colony. The whole ou[?] skirts of the colony, with, their towns, are cut off from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting convened, on requisition, by the Chairman of the Municipality, was held at the Council Chambers, Waverley, on Friday evening, for the purpose of considering the dangerous state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE expediency ot laying tramways along the principal traflic routes of the city having been frequently brought under the consideration of the Commissioners of Sewers, Mr. Haywood, their engineer and surveyor,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held on 30th July, at their offices in George-street, at two o'clock. The Hon. George Allen, Esq., M.L.C., took the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE circumstance of greatest prominence in connection with the extension of railways in this colony has for many months, been the differences subsisting between the Railway Department and Mr. Rhodes,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—With your kind permission, I would wish, on behalf of the commissioners of the South Head Roads Trust, to say a few words in reference to a meeting held a short time since at Waverley, presided over by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In your issue of 14th ultimo, a letter under the above head, and signed " E. Q.," reflects somewhat upon an article which appeared in one of our local papers on the same subject…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I have just arrived from Bathurst, and for the sake of economy I have walked. Will you permit me, through the medium of your journal, to make a few remarks, which, perhaps, may be useful to some…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—In the Herald of the 23rd there appeared letter from Mr. Gerard Phillips, Secretary to the south Head Roads Trust, commenting on the proceeding at a recent meeting in Waverley; hinting that it was rather…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—I have read a letter addressed to you signed "Caustic," purporting to be answer to mine of the 11th instant on this subject. Other occupations have prevented my noticing this letter earlier, and I am glad that it has so happened, as the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I beg to call attention through the Press to the impassable state of the road from Camden Bridge to Razorback, more especially to the flats this side of Razorback. Since the floods the mail and teams…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE damage which was done to the Great Southern Railway by the disastrous floods in April lost was at the time only temporarily repaired, the viaducts hastily put up to replace those carried away being only…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →" To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. " SIR— In your issue of the 31st ultimo, under the above head, an article appeared informing the public that, consequent upon the damage done by the April…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE damage which was done to the Great Southern Railway by the disastrous floods in April last was at the time only temporarily repaired, the viaducts hastily put up to replace those carried away being only…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—As I do not doubt but that your columns are open to alleviate, by making public, the petty miseries of travellers on our admirably conducted railways (which Mr. Arnold was good enough to inform the House some weeks ago, involved a dead…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following extract from a letter from the Upper Murray, will show with what pertinacity the Victorian Government persist in impracticabilities. Is it with a view to try to complicate our Customs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I regret that you should have found it necessary to appear in print to reply to certain charges made by me against the Department for Works, and my regret arises from the fact that none better…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The road to and from the townships of Wollombi and Warkworth is now very much needing repair, and I am credibly, informed that a sum of money has been actually placed in the bank by the Government for such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Maitland Assizes on "Wednesday, George Swen was indicted for feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, killing and murdering John Barton, at Buthford; on the 18th April…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A FEW days since we noticed a neatly lithographed map, published in Melbourne, of the varions routes to and from the Snowy River diggings by way of Merimbula and Twofold Bay. The map in question shows very distinctly the course taken by the…
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