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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 15
THE subject of the best and most practicable mode of transit bath for goods and passengers from one part of the colony to the other, being now under discussion and warmly debated by the advocates of each different…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NOTWITHSTANDING the numerous' attendance in the Temperance Hall, to consider the subject of Internal Communication, little was done to the purpose. It appeared that most people came…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE session of Parliament has terminated without any decision being arrived at as to the mode in which further railway extensions are to be carried out. The question has, on two or three occasions, been cursorily debated in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—It has given me infinite satisfaction to read the well-timed remarks of a Managle correspondent on roads and the railway. Now that matters therein awre fairly set a-going, I hope they will not be let rest…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE subject of street railways was brought before the Police Committee on Monday, by a letter from Mr. George Francis Train. We have perused his pamphlet, and made a few extracts which will throw…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As the majority of the people are dis[?]fied with the costly experiment of railway communcation in this colony, and are now crying out for tramways, I will propose the cheap American system of railways with such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE subject of street railways was brought before the Police Committee on Monday, by a letter from Mr. George Francis Train. We have perused his pamphlet, and made a few extracts which will throw…
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Continued on Trove, page 20 →This was an action to recover compensation for certain damage said to have been sustained by the City Corporation through the construction of the bridge from Market Wharf to Pyrmont. The declaration was very long, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Earl Derby and Lord Shaftesbury must, we think, have opened their eyes wide in astonishment as they perused a lending article in the Times of Saturday last. They were then informed that there had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Above all things, good policy is to be used that the treasure and moneys of a State be not gathered into few hands for otherwise, a statesman may have a good stock and yet starve and money is like muck, not good unless it apreads."—Bacon's Essays,"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN our issue of yesterday we stated that a man had been found dead on Sunday morning on the line of railway between Petersham and Ashfield, his death having resulted from one of the engines coming in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLTS meeting was held, last evening, at Bleka's, Robin Hood Inn, South Head Road, for [?] purpose of taking steps to have re-opened Yurons street, from Liverpool-street, to the South Head Road, the unlawful…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—The delay which is caused through the carrying out of the now regulations upon the Great Southern Railway (commenced on the first instnut), is likely to cause much inconvenience to the passengers travelling thereby…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our common road lecomotives demand of the Legislature special staturtory provision They do so in more respects than ono; for, in the first place, turnpikes, so long as they exist, have a right to toll in amount…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →HAVING had occasion, on Wednesday, to take a drive as far as the Queen's Arms, on the "Great" Southern Road, a distance of ten of eleven miles, we h ad an opportunity of experiencing the pleasures of travelling on that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR.—As you kindly inserted a former letter, I hope this may be worth a place on the above important subjeat. It is now, I helieve, to be taken into consider. stion, let us hope as correct conclusion will be arrived at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →EARLY on Sunday morning a man was found dead on the line of railway between Petersham and Ashfield, bis death haying resulted from one of the engines coming in contact with his head…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR,—On the 1st of this month, being Saturday, whilst proceeding in the train from Sydney to Ashfield, and attempting unsuccessfully to open the door [of the carriage at Newtown for the egress of a lady, I was unexpectedly made aware of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I MENTIONED in my last the fearful si[?] of the roads from Penrith to Hartley, describing them as the worst I had passed through in Australia, and now haye to notice some of the b[?]st—namely, between Bowenfels…
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