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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
233 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 12
It has been said that anything may be proved by Statistics. Readers of medical works are aware of the abundance of "cases" which can always be cited to prove the most contradictory propositions[?] there is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—It is not denied that the experiment of a reduction of the railway fares, instituted by Mr. Bagar when he hald the office of Secretary for Public Works, has been a success, so far as numbers are concerned. Indeed, it is an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—On passing over Pyrmont Bridge yesterday evening with a dogcart containing four persons, the collector at the gate nearest Sydney demanded a toll of sixpence, instead of threepence, as I have hitherto paid, on the plea that the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Having seen it advertised by your paper that the times of the running of the railway train for January, 1863, are to be altered—"which way, forwards, increased?" Oh, no! we could not do such a thing in this part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—In reply to a letter from Globe Point, in your issue of yesterday, 1 beg to say that the demand made upon the writer of 6d., instead of 3d., was an inadvertence on the part of the toll collector's assistant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have read with great satisfaction your very sensible leader of Tuesday last on the alteration of the railway timetable. There is yet another point of view from which neither…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I, as one of the public, consider the present arrangement of trains unjustly deprives myself and family of the facilities of travelling we originally possessed, when I was induced by the time-table of that day to purchase a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—Observing another letter from Globe Point in yesterday's Herald relative to the tolls charged in three instances, on three bridges, I have to reply that the rates as stated to have been paid appear to me to be correct, except in one…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THERE is an insane conviction in the minds of most men who get into an empty railway carriage that that carriage is theirs, and if anybody attempts to share it with them, their countenance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The most humourotis caricature by Trollopo or Dickons of Yankee "bumptiousness" brag—of out rageous hyperbolical falschood and apiteful abaze of the old country—has just been surpassed by the Mr G. F…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR,—In the Herald of this day there is a letter respecting "the Bridge-Tolls," bearing the indefinite Signature of "Thomas Smith." I am informed that this is the signature of the secretary of the Bridge Company. Assuming that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A PUBLIC meeting of persons interested in the management of railways (more particularly as regards passenger traffic) was held yesterday afternoon, at Mort's Rooms, Pitt-street, for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—One would have thought that complete unanimity would have attended the meeting yesterday about Railway Mismanagement. Government clerks, who form a large proportion of the suburban residents, were, of course, unable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Railway management being now so prominently brought forward, I wish to state for public information the partiality of the authorities, in the matter of Season Tickets, even though that partiality has been shewn to my own…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—About a month since the Government leased the tram which was originally constructed to feed the railway, and it certainly has been a great convenience to railway passengers; but now the lessee, in addition to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE important ceremony of turning the first sod of the railway which is to connect the district of the Hawkes bury with the metropolis took place yesterday, in the town of Windsor. The contract accepted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →YESTERDAY, at half-patt one o'clock, a large company, including two Cabinet Ministers and a party from Sydney, with many af the inhabitants of the ancient town of Windsor and the neighbrurhood, assembled on the hill…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following amusingly impudent letter was addressed to the Society of Cogers, meeting at their Hall Shoe Lane, London. It appears that while Mr Train was in England he was a member of this society:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—I have been in the habit of going with a horse by the [?] morning train to South Creek for some time past; [?] owing that by the late arrangements I could not go [?] early train beyond Parramatta, I preferred going…
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