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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
282 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 15
SIR—Will you permit me to make a few remarks on the [?] in your yesterday's issue. He desire to call the proper authorises to the state of the Egmore, road. Will he be kind enough to name the proper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In consequence of a letter in your valuable journal, dated 30th instant, signed "Fair Play,"I lo.t no time in proceeding to Penrith, with a view of forming an opinion as to the best site for a railway or other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I am glad find you supporting this improvement; indeed any measure to facilitate transit of goods in this colony is of moment to us all but, Mr. Editor, where is this affair to start from? In other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—At the risk of being called a grumbler, the driver of a milk cart; and an unreasonable man, I trouble you with the following lines:- You have, Sir, rendered the residents of Newtown no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →My DEAR SIR,—The machinery for getting redress in your office is so intricate, and its working attended with so much delay, that it occurs to me that whenever I have complaints to make or abuses to expose it will be more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—During the present week, three cases have been disposed of at the Central Police Court,involving a question of considerable importance to me, and of some interest, if not to the public generally, at least to all the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I CANNOT conceal from myself that one of the most prominent facts of my everyday life is the Roundabout Railway. Every seven minutes and a-half of my waking existence, that wonderful institution…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON the 20th March, a branch line of railway was opened in Hungary, which brings the metropolis of that country for the first time into immediate connection with Trieste and the Adriatic. Its starting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday, an action "Pym v. the Great Northorn Railway Company," occupied Lord Chief Justice Cockburn till a late hour. The plaintiff in this action is the wife of Mr Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE verdict in Mr. Pym's cases the reductic ad absurdum of Lord Campbell's Act. Mr. Pym, a gentleman of considerable landed property, was killed, in 1860, on the Great Northern Railway. The accident…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—It seems, that in spring time in England, as well as in this part of the world, there are occasional rencontres between volunteers and tollkeepers, about the payment of tolls, as the following extract of what occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Woore also read the following paper, on "a new method of giving support to railway i bars:"- A general extension of efficient railways as the best…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PUBLIC meeting of land proprietors and residents was hold on Saturday evening, at the Royal Arms, Liverpool Road. David Johnston, Esq., of George's Hall, took the chair at eight o'clock. A letter was read from J. H…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →RETURN to an Order of the Honorable the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, dated 27th March, 1861, that there be laid upon the table of this House: 1. "A return of all sums of money voted for and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS bridge, which connects the townships of Murrurundi and Haydonton, on the Great Northern Road, was formally opened for public traffic on Wednesday, the 11th instant, by the Commissioner for Roads, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A MEETING of proprietors and others interested in property at Botany was held yesterday afternoon, at Messrs. Richardson and Wrench's Auction Rooms, for the purpose of taking into consideration the advisability of forming a company…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF TO SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC WORKS. Railway Department, Engineer's Office, Sydney, 31st July, 1861. SIR—In compliance with your instructions I HAVE…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,âIn compliance with your instructions I have prepared, and have now the honour to submit, the following report on the cost of constructing cheap locomotive lines of railway between Picton and Goulburn in the south, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following is the letter from Mr. Robertson to Mr. Dalgleish, referred to yesterday by the hon. member in the Legislative Assembly as a matter of personal explanation:- Coach Factory, 489, Pitt-street, Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Will you be kind enough to inform those in command that it is the opinioh of a number of parties interested that a very great improvement of Pitt-street, without any inconvenience to Bathurst-street, would be the result…
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