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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
215 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 11
SIR—Having unfortunately been prevented by a broken leg from being present in the House during the recen discussion on the above item of the estimates, I desire that you will permit me as the representative of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following piper was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly on the 26th ultimo. It relates to the classification of subordinate roads, and the proposed expenditure thereon for 1804, out of the vote of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. GARRETT asked the Secretary for Works,—"1. The amount expended out of the vote granted for the bridge over the Namoi River, at Narrabri? 2. Whether the retention money in the hands of the Government has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday evening on adjourned public meeting was held in the Court-house, Morpeth, for the purpose of [?]rging upon the Government "the necessity of speedily determining upon the permanent site of the East…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DEPUTATION, appointed at a meeting of shareholders in the late Morpeth Railway Company, waited yesterday morning on the Minister for Works, with reference to the completion of the railway from East Maitland to Morpeth. The deputation—which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. SHEPHERD asked the Secretary for Lands—I. Is there any fixed rule or principle by which the Government are guided in defining end dissing the Various roads throughout the country, and on which the public…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DEPUTATION, appointed at a meeting of shareholders in the lats Mor[?] Railway Company, waited on the 11th instant, on the Minister for Works, with reference to the completion of the railway form East Maitland to Morpeth. The deputation—which…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE railway works in progress in this colony are chiefly those for the extension of the three trunk lines into the interior, contracts being now in hand for the formation of fifty-five miles on the Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →IT appears from the report of the engineers, that the time the machines were actually at work, during the year 1861, at Bardonneche, was only 209 clear days, with an actual advance of the whole front of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE railway works in progress in this colony are chiefly those for the extension of the three trunk line into the interior, contracts being now in hand for the formation of fifty-five miles on the Southern…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE public—whether rightly or wrongly is a question which need by no means interrupt a plain narrative of facts—have manifested a very decided and unanimous feeling with regard to the execution of Samuel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—A discussion has been going on for some time in Queensland upon the merits of the gauge of the railway now in course of cons'ruction there. The accompanying extract from Mr. Raff's last speech to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE public—whether rightly or wrongly is a question which need by no means interrupt a plain narrative of facts—have manifested a very decided and unanimous feeling with regard to the execution of Samuel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IMPERFECTLY as French Railway Finance is understood in this country, and obscure as it will probably continue, owing to the complex and varied relations between the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—The read from South Creek to the Railway Station (only about half-s-mlle) is most dangerous to anything that travels upon it. Surely, it the place is worthy of a station-house, we ought to have an approach to it, so that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—I am directed by the Secretary for Lands to intimate to you that the Government has determined so far to remodel the road branch of this department as to transfer to the Department of Works such of the minor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The present state of the abovenamed throroughfare is a di[?]grace to a civilised community. Opposite Denham-street, and between that and Bourke-street, it is little else than a heap of mud a foot or eighteen inches deep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SINCE contract No. 6 on the Southern extension was taken by Messrs, Forster and Roberts, in January last, no tenders have been called for railway works. The additional length required to continue the railway to Goulburn is about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—Being an old resident, and, to my sorrow, a heavy ratepayer, I endorse most cordially the statements made in your journal by a Botany resident, as regards the disgraceful state of the road. I am certain no township in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINCE contract No. 6 en the Southern extension was taken by Messrs. Forster and Roberts, in January last, no tenders have been called for railway works. The additional length required to continue the railway to Goulburn is about…
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