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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
209 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 11
SIR — Would you be so kind as to inform your readers, if the law at one time in force prohibiting smoking in railway carriages, other than those set opart for smoking, has been set aside…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following paper was read last night, by the Governor-General, at the meeting of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales:— The damage which has been caused by the floods daring…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE whole of the railway works in this colony are being earned out under the contracts taken by Sir M. Peto and Co., and consist of the extension of the mettopolitan line southward and westward, and of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE public railway policy of these colonies is at present pretty uniform. With the exception of two or three short lines of railsway near Melbourne, all lines belong to the Government, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SERGEANT Williamson, of the metropolitan detective force, has arrived at Road, and is actively engaged with Mr. Inspector Whicher, Captain Meredith, chief constable, and other officers of the county police in investigating this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MR. George Francis Train, of Boston, U.S A., delivered the following interesting lecture on Street Railways:— I cannot better appreciate your courtesy in permit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Oxford in July last, Mr. G. F. Train, formerly of Melbourne, read a paper on Street Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MR. GEORGE HAMILTON, C.E., has sent the following report to Mr. Bewery, the manager of Great Northern Copper Mines, with reference to the cost of constructing a railroad to the mineral district north of Port…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →YESTERDAY afternoon a party of gentlemen, amongst whom were the Minister for Works, Captain Martindale, R.E., and Captain Ward, R.E., proceeded to Pyrmont, to witness the driving of the first pile of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON Wednesday a party of gentlemen, amongst whom were the Minister for Works, Captain Martindale, R.E., and Captain Ward, R.E., proceeded to Pyrmont, to witness the driving of the first pile of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MUCH attention has been excited during the last week by a proposal submitted to the Assembly by the Minister for Works for the appropriation by Parliament of the sum of £4,000,000, to be raised by loan,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN an article on Railways, in our Summary for England, incidental allusion was made to a new invention in railway construction just patented in this colony and in Victoria, by Mr. E. Bell, the City Engineer. The invention consists of a combination…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—As I understand the Government is desir[?] of adopting a cheaper mode of internal communication, and as they must be aware of the immediate want of a road from Eden into the interior; may I suggest the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NOTHING contributes so much to the prosperity of a country as an abundance of good land. But, although a fertile soil contains the elements of wealth, it is possible, as we have already demonstrated, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It is really annoying in the extreme to find that no steps are taken, towards the repairs of these roads northward; and in a former communication I had the pleasure of forwarding you, it was stated that a sum of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE criminal class seems within the last week or two to have been bent on driving to an extreme the question,— whether crime can be traced to an absolute turpitude in human nature which must be driven out by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Such improvements as time and the means at command have permitted have, as steadily as the continuous wet weather has enabled, been carried forward upon the main roads under the system of contrant and task work referred…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A PAPER on internal communication, by Captain Martindale, has just been issued, from which we make the following extracts — RAILWAYS—EXISTING LINES…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Such improvements as time and the means at command have permitted have, as steadily as the continuous wet weather has enebled, been carrind forward upon the main roads under the system of contract and task work…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Unless something is speedily done all traffic will be stopped on the Southern Road. Between Camden and Razorback, which is now in a fearful state, and to remedy the evil a few men were sent to repair it, but have made it infinitely worse by cutting…
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