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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 15
NOTWITHDSTANDING the professed object which has given birth to the motion censuring the Government railway policy, it is clear to every impartial thinker that an attempt is being made to force upon the Ministry a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Will you allow me space in your columns to correct a statement made by Mr. Dalgleish in the Legislative Assembly one evening last week, respecting the Bellambi Tramway. The honorable member is reported to have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I am sure New South Wales may well congratulate herself on the numerous inventors, borrowers, adapters, and contrivers of locomotion for her colony. Beth "in the House" and "out of the House" every one has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—In the course of the debate on Mr. Rotton's motion on tho railway policy of the Government, it was ropoatedly stated that tho mineral resources of tho Southern districts of the colony were equal, if not superior, to thoso of tho…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MY dear Mr. Commissioner,—When I wrote to you last week I little thought chut I should have tho plcasuro of addressing you again BO soon. Circumstances, however, have occurred which call for my presont communication…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THIS morning, as the 3.30 train left the station, a number of horse were on, the railroad line, which galloped along until they came to the first Culvert, where they stopped en masse, and before the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting of the electors was held at the Farriers' Arms Inn, Newtown, on Friday night, at half-past eight o'clock, for the purpose of nominating new trustees in the place of those whose tenure of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A NUMEROUS meeting was held at Mr. Blackstone's, Newtown Inn, on Saturday evening last, the 9th instant, at eight p.m., for the purpose of nominating gentlemen to act as trustees during the ensuing three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,"—It appears to me that neither in nor out of Parliament has the adtmrable report from the Engineer-in-Chief for Railways, on the cost of constructing choap locomotive lines, received that attention to which it is eminently…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE following paper waS read last night in the Assembly by Dr. Wilson:- The system of railways adopted in New South Wales is sybstantially the same in every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have read with attention the different arguments upon the railway policy of the past Administration, and am just as much in the dark as ever, with the complication of figures, ststistics, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →GENTLEMEN,—In a letter, which one of your number about eight days ago addressed to the Commissioners of Railways through the Sydney Morning Herald, complaining that he had received an account from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I cannot allow Mr. E. Deas Thomson's letter on railway extension to pass before the public without some remarks, as I conceive, in eulogising Mr. Whitton's report on cheap railways, he gives him the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →[The following letter has been addressed by this hon gentleman to the editor of the Herald, and appeared in that journal on the 13th instant.) SIR,—It appears to me that neither in nor out of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—Per[?] me, through the medium of your columns, to inform Mr, Dalgleish, that, when he quotes the Oldham and Manchester line of railway with a gradient of one in twenty-seven as an instance of the power of locomotive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON the 25th of August, as formerly mentionod, a terrible disaster occurred on the Brighton Railway, which proved that the excursion "to Brighton and back for half-a-crown," is not always a cheap one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN.—In a letter, which one of your number, about week ago, addressed to the Commissioner of Railway, through the Sydney Morning Heruld,oumplining that he had 'received an' account from tbat department…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The tramway laid along Pitt-street to connect the terminus of the Southern and Western Railways with the Circular [?]uay, is now completed, and, as tenders have been received for horsing the cars, it is expected that the line…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In Thursday's issuse I saw a.comment on thePittstreet tramway.Anding great fault with the timber cumbering. The writer states that if hand out, instead of maobine out, it would not cumber…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON the 25th of August as formerly mentioned, a terrible disaster occurred on the Brighton Railway, which proved that the excursion "to Brighton and back for half-a-crown," is not always a cheap one…
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