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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 9
THE approaching exhibition in the metropolis is already putting forth its peculiar claims, and, if we mistake not, the steam horse is to occupy no secondary place at the great international gathering…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN,—Judging by the appointments which have recently been made, the colony is on the eve[?] of being launched into another great expenditure for railway works. Before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FEW months since we noticed the construction by Mr. Kearey, coachmaker, of Pitt-street of a commodious tramway omnibus This vehicle, which corresponded in form with the cars running on the if…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—It is quite wrong to state or suppose the tradesmen in this colony lose anything by the importation of signel posts for [?]i way purposes. I believe, and I think it can be easily proved, such is not the case. The foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—The Honorable Secretary for Works being asked by Mr. Samuel, in the Legislative Assembly, on the 30th ultimo, whether any claims had been sent in against the Government on account of damages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PUBLIC meeting of residents of Pitt-street, and other citizens favourable to the taking up of the tramway, was held last evening in the long-room at Tattersall's hotel. There were about forty or fifty persons present,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting of residents of Pitt-street, and other citizens favourable to the taking up of the tramway, was held on Monday, in the long-room at Tattersall's hotel. There were about forty or fifty persons present,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FEW months since we noticed the construction by Mr. Kearey, coachmaker, of Pitt-street, of a commodious tramway omnibus. This vehicle, which corresponded in form with the can running on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FELLOW COLONISTS.—At the request of the committee of the Society for Promoting the Observance of the Lord's Lay, we desire again to address you. On a former occasion we briefly referred to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—In your report of the proceedings of the public meeting of the above company held yesterday, at the rooms of Messrs. Richardson and Wrench, it is stated that I said I had been informed the proposed works…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR—Allow me, through your valuable paper, to suggest a remedy for the evils attending on the above unfortunate tramway. Instead of taking it up, as by some proposed, I should recommend it to be pitch-paved between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GENTLEMEN,—Ten days have elapsed without any reply to my letter of the 28th ultime. We must, therefore, accept the silent admission that what I have said is true; if not, surely it would have been contradicted after such…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—A most disgraceful affair having taken place on the. evening of Wednesday, the 11th instant, I think it but right to give it publicity, so that the citizens of Parramatta may for the future be on their guard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In accordance with the arrangements of a provisional committee—appointed at a meeting held in October last, for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of a railway to Botany, and also the best and most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FELLOW COLONISTS,—At the request of the committee of the Society for Promoting the Observance of the Lord's Lay, we desire again to address you. On a former occasion we briefly referred to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—A most diagraceful affair having taken place last evening (Wednesday, June 11th) I think it but right to give it publicty, so that the [?]s of Parramatta may, for the future, be on their guard…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—I shall feel obliged by your inserting the subjoined extracts from the Home News, showing that the existence of the Tramroad system may now be said to have ceased in London, that system having been decided to be a nuisance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—While opinion seems to be unsettled as to what would be the best to do with the tramway, allow me through your columns to offer a few suggestions as a means to remedying the evils complained of. And, first, I would call attention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THIS was an indictment for a nuisance in obstructing a public highway, and was tried before Lord Chief Justice Erle, at the late Surrey assizes, when the jury-found a verdict for the Crown, leave being reserved to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →JUNE 18TH.—The ceremony of turning the first sod of the Maitlend and Morpeth Railway came off here to-day. For the last two days the weather had been wet and unpromising, but this running it cleared and…
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