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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 15
SIR,—Allow me through the medium of your valuable journal to call the attention of Government to the disgraceful and dangerous state of the Northern Roads. Last month (April) business called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—On Perusing your columns, for Wednesday, 1st instant, received this day, I was greatly astonished either at the consummate impudence of your correspondent "Speciator," in writing such a letter in reference to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The readiest way to silence an opponent is to knock him down, and so at once in a measure disarm him. On something the same principle Mr. Weaver procceds when he broadly accuses me of an absurdity…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—With reference to the question as to whether the road to Lambing Flat from Sydney is shorter by way of Goulburn and Yass than by Bathurst and Cewra—which question was raised in the short…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The Legislative Assembly has recently agreed to a vote of £22,000 for building a bridge over the Neapean river, at Penrith. Recent events have proved the fullacy of constructing one at or about the neighbourhood of the punts which have been used for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Will you allow me a small space in your paper to make known the careless manner in which the Railway authorities provide ([?]) for the carriage of horses by the train from Campbelltown to Sydney, and other places along…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →As to the vast superiority of railways over tramways, there cannot be, I presume, a question. But this, although intruded upon the meeting of Monday evening, was not the subject to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEN Bill after Bill is beaten, or withdrawn, or put off to another session, for any or no reason, there are people who despair of practical legislation. That is the conclusion which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE more we hear of the Road Murder the less credit do the measures taken for its discovery reflect upon our legal machinery. In spite of Sir Fitzroy Kelly's assertion to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE superiority of railways over common roads is so completely established that it would be a waste of time to insist on it. The question is now reduced to this, can railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PREVIOUS to the Act of Parliament being obtained for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the Royal assent to which was given on the 14th May, 1829, about £2,500,000 had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →That Infant's voice before the throne for Vengeunce cries; The Assassin quails e'en now before The Almighty's eyes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Notwithstanding the great cost of railroads for steam power, with their staffs of officials and train of accessaries, and the time they take in constructing, the professionals…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I beg to bring under your notice tho fact that the 1.45 p.m. train from Campbelltown to-day left the Petersham station two minutes (by the clock at the Redfern terminus) before the specified time. There may be sometimes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN Act for the construetion of a tramroad from tba Redfern railway terminus to the Semi-chrcalar Quay[Assented to 80th April, l861] Whereas it would be for the pubilc consveniences to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Now that the people are beginning to take up the subject of tramways in real earnest, I must trust to your kindness for intruding upon a small space in your paper to say a few words regarding the disgraceful state of the road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"I HOPE," said her Majesty, on proroguing Parliament in 1858, "that its new colony in the Pacific (British Columbia) may be but one step in the career of steady progress by which my…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I think it will be generally conceded that the railways in this colony were projected far in advance of its requirements; that the lines were selected without judgment; that the works have been found partially,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—The hundreds of pedestrians who for the last year have daily passed between the Parramatta Railway station and Church street have been greatly annoyed at being obliged to walk in the track of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Permit me to inform" E. M.," and his "pretty good authority," that his statement, with referoence to myself, is simply false, and I think it would have been wiser of E. M., besfore making such a statement, to have mude proper…
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