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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
215 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 11
SIR,—I was glad to see in your columns attention called to the dangerous state of the road from Waterloo to Botany. Having occasion to go there last week, as I sometimes have, I was astonished to find how very bad it had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE note of preparation for the coming Parliamentary railway campaign is everywhere heard. The deposits for the new railway projects amount to £6,000,000, whence it appears that the capital purp[?]ting to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—The Engineer-in-Chief (Mr. Whitton) in his evidence given before the select committee of the House of Assembly in answer to question 3593 says:—"Fairbairn is now out of date, he wrote in 1850 or 1851. It…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR.—In my letter in yesterday's Empire, I have shown that excellent iron railway bridges for sp[?]ns of 150 feet should weigh only 130 tons, instead of 320 tons, as recommended by the parties who were interested in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Various reports having been circulated, that owing to the debts incurred by the late trustees of the Botany road, the present trustees have no funds in hand for the repair of this dangerous road, the following facts, will, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Would you kindly allow me a little space in the columns of your valuable paper to draw attention to the fearful state of the Botany Road. I left Sydney yesterday. With the intention of taking a drive as far as Botany. I…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE branch railway from East Maitland to Morpeth was opened for traffic by the Minister for Works on Monday last. It was determined at a meeting of the inhabitants of Morpeth not to celebrate the event with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR—My two letters, which have already appeared in the columns of the Empire, give the public an opportunity of forming an opinion of the value of Mr. Whitton's engineering? capacity, But were I to stop here, I should…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE bunch line of f railway connecting Morpeth, at the head of the navigation of the Hunter, with the Great Northern Railway at East Maitland, was opened yesterday for public traffic by the honorable the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE branch railway from East Maitland to Morpeth was opened for traffic by the Minister for Works on Monday last. It was determined at a meeting of the inhabitants of Morpeth not to celebrate the event with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE railway interest is gradually working its way into all our institutions. In the House of Lords it is protected by five-and-forty noble directors; and in the "other place" by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In your issue of this day I see the Engineer-in-Chief asserts that the roling stock about which there was so much discussion, was ordered "by Captain Martindale and Mr. Nealde together." I beg to give this the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ALL those boys out of my office, they have told untruths in other respects, and when a peraon tells an untruth in one thing we may expect him to do so in another.—Mr. Whitton's evidence, questions 3798.9…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The bill, as at present drawn, differs materially from that of last session; in that the Scheme which it seeks to carry into effect has removed from it most of the blemishes which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →8380. I look on all these as being on his own authority. I do no think any man has a right to come and make statements onless he is prepared to show their truth.—Evidence of the Engineer-in-Chief for Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"If the (Mr. John Fowler) [?] moneyed partner in that firm (Manning, Wardall, and Co.), do you think it proper he should be [?] It I had the least suspicision of such a thing. I should not have ordered them from those works, but I do not believe he has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the time when Lord [?]ag[?]an despatched to his leading divisions the final order to advance, he was riding between the French and the English armies, and was close to a road or track which led…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—A perusal of those old and not much looked into public records, reports of select committees, is not such pleasant reading as Thackeray or Dickens have given to the world, nor are they half so instructive; bat it is a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The cost of the between Campbelltown and Menangle, a distance of five and three-quarter miles will be £96[?]0 per mile, and from Monangloto Ficton, a distance of fourteen miles and a quarter, will be £11,465 per mile, exclusive of land. Does that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Q[?]ESTION 3584. Will you explain what the detail drawings are? Answere. I consider the detail drawings of the iron work to be the strength, size, and arrangement of all the plates in the bridge, and the manner in which they are put together.—Evidence of…
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