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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 9
SIR.—In your issue of the 14th instant, you reprinted from the Maitland Mercury, the proceedings of a meeting of the Maitland and morpeth Railway Company. My attention has been directed to that report, and I…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—On going over Glebe Island Bridge I notieed a quantity of pig-iron on the awing bridge, and on inquiry, I found that the bridge would not act without it, the long lever or girder spanning the opening requiring twenty-two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Justice and your usual courtesy give me a claim on your journal for space to reply to Mr. Dalgleish's letter in the Empire of the 22nd instant. I should not complain, perhaps, that Mr. Dalgleish…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—A public meeting respecting the position of the intended railway station was held at the Commercial Hotel, on Friday, 22nd instant, according to advertisement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of this company was held here at ten o'clock on Friday morning, "For the purpose of considering the expediency of affirming a resolution passed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The Pitt-street Tramway has been vaunted as a great convenience to the public; and to a considerable portion of them it doubtless is so, but only to a portion of them. When the carriages were first set on the rails, there was an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following circular has been issued by the direction of the Commissioner for Roads to each of the road overseers:— I am directed by the Commissioner to regnest that you…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE three railway extensions that are being carried out by Sir M. Peto and Co. have arrived at such an advanced state that our monthly notices will now be confined to reporting the gradual completion of the few remaining…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following circular has been issued by the direction of the Commissioner for Roads to each of the toad overseers:— I am directed by the Commissioner to request that you…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A QUICK and safe means of communication beneath the overcrowded streets of London has always been the great ideal of modern engineers. The public, however, have, perhaps…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE portion of the great Northern Railway extending from Loohinvar to Black Creek was opened for traffic yesterday morning. Owing to some oversight on the part of those at head-quarters, the arrangements for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE three railway extensions that are being carried out by Sir M. Peto and Co. have arrived at such an advanced state that our monthly notices will now be contained to reporting the gradual completion of the few remaining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Will you give a constant reader of your liberal paper a short space for the following observations? There are several subjects in con[?]cation with the Great Northern Railway which would form matter for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—The respectable inhabitants living near the above toll-bar, are daily annoyed by the conduct of a black man who has been placed there by the lesson to receive the toll. The obscene language, and the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE British public naturally desires to travel it as [?] cost as may be, but with speed, com[?]ort, safety, and punctuality. It has practically only one means of conveyance. The iron rail…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE progress report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly on the system of railway locomotion proposed by Mr. E. Bell, together with the evidence, was issued from the Government Printing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Wednesday afternoon, at two o'clock, the inhabitants of the Pennant Hills District assembled at Mr. Jumes Smith's residence, Upper Pennant Hills, for the purpose of considering the proposed alteration…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I beg the favour to be allowed a small space in your journal to contradict a gross falsehood, under the above heading, signed, "A Resident in the Neighbourhoood," which appeared in your issue of the 1st instant, wherein…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—If the proposed subscription for a statue to the memory of Prince Albert was applied to the more useful purpose of erecting a substantial bridge over some of our rivers in the interior, a lasting benefit would be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A laborious and interesting statestical article on this subject appears in the Engineer of the 3rd instant, from which we select a few results. The actual extent of railway now open…
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