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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
233 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 12
A CORRESPONDENT SAYS:——Having just returned from a trip to the Menangle, I found the works at the railway bridge there of so interesting a nature that I have jo[?]ed down a brief description of them, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Monday, April 15.—Up at dawn. Crossed by ferry to Portsmouth, and arrived at railway station, which was at no place in particular, in a street down which the rails were laid. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A CORRESPONDENT says :âHaving just returned from a trip to the Menangle, I found the works at the railway bridge there of so interesting a nature that I have jotted down a brief description of them,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In consequence of the recent investigation with reference to the management of the railway here, under Mr. J. C. No[?]lds, and in order to show you how the same inquiry has affected my prospects, merely for having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT was not difficult to foresee that railways would exercise a material and immediate influence on hotels that they would gradually equalise prices throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Messrs. Freeman, of George-street, have taken, in their best style, a photograph of the tubular girder bridge now in course of construction across the Menangle River, for the Great Southern Railway. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In pursuance of the vote of the Assembly for the simultaneous construction of the three trunk lines of railway, seven contracts have within as many months been taken for extensions to the south, the west, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE success with which this new line in working, as far as it can yet be judged by its great and increasing traffic returns, has up to the present infinitely surpassed the expectations of its promoters. Even when allowing a most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—The Corporation of Sydney deserve praise for city improvements, which, during the past few years are manifold. May I, through your medium, direct their attention to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THERE is among the remembrances of my life as a railroad man, one of such sadness, that I never think of it without a sigh. Every man, unless he be so morose that he cannot keep a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A PRE[?]MINARY meeting [?]ook place yesterday evening (15th), at the Royal Hotel, Singleton, for the purpose of arranging preliminaries for the public meeting of the inhabitants of Singleton and district of Patrick's P[?]ains,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No new contracts for railway extension have been taken since we published our last Summary, but sections of the Southern and Western lines will shortly be tendered for. The portion of the Southern line to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →This was a special case to determine the right of the Sydney Corporation to erect two piers on the pathway of the road leading from the Pyrmont Bridge to the Bridge across Blackwattle Swamp…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →This was a special case submitted to the judgment of the Court to try the right of the defendants to erect piers to support an aqueduct upon part of a road belonging to the plaintiff…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No new contracts for railway extension have been taken since we published our last Summary, but sections of the Southern and Western lines will shortly be tendered for. The portion of the Southern line to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DEED of almost unprecedented daring took place on the 4th in one of the railway carriages on the Turin and [?] line. Four parsons had taken their places at Alessandrie, for Genoa, in a second-class carriage. They…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The reader if at all familiar with the locality immediately adjoining the London Bridge Railway termini, may, in contemplating the present aspect of affairs, exclaim with the black man in the play,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—In a recent issue of the Bathurst Free Press, its Sydney correspondent professes to give an extract from your Bourke correspondent; I think, on the subject of my heading, namely, the naviagtion of the D[?]rling by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the time when Lord Raglan despatched to his leading divisions the final order to adv n[?]e he was riding between the French and the English armies, and was close to a road or track which led down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE inquest on the body of the child Thomas McGowan, was concluded before the City Coroner, at his office, Hyde Park, yesterday afternoon. Mr. P. Driver, junior, on behalf of Mr. Woods, the lessee of the tram cars,…
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