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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
215 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 11
7550 How long do you consider a fair time for preparing a complete set of working plans and sections for the Menanglo Bride? I find Mr. Trengrouse states, In his evidence that the cose of the drawings of that bridge was £1100. I have had the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE branch railway from East Maitland to Morpeth was opened for traffic by the Minister for Works on Monday, the 2nd of May. It was determined at a meeting of the inhabitants of Morpeth, chiefly in consequence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE line from East Maitland to Morpeth connecting the Great Northern Railway with the head of the navigation of the Hunter River was opened for traffic at the beginning of this month. The first proposal three years ago for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →7526. Did you not appear as the Occuser against the late [?] manager Mr. Neaide? No, I do not think I did; I think I had been explain how that occurred. In my official position as Engineer Chief, certain matters were reported to me with reference to M…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR.—If you think the enclosed copy of a letter worth publishing you can do so. If you look at the 17th bylaw for railway traiffc, you will see the charges made for passenger trains (112 1bs.) is enormous compared to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A LONDON paper furnishes the following facts as to the progress of railways in England:— Our railways have once again reported progress. We are glad to see that dividends on the £400,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE line from East Maitland to Morpeth connecting the Great Northern Railway with the head of the navigation of the Hunter River a opened for traffic at the beginning of this month. The first proposal three years ago for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] With reference to the iron bridge, Mr.Rhodes insisted upon being paid £[?]0 a ton for the iron girders, which in England would not coat more than £18. This was the cause of the change in the design and the recent [?]oods induce me to prefer timber…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—I shall now examine the affidavits of Mr. John Fowler, and the leading article in the Engineer, in relation to their bearing on the evidence of the Engineer-in-Chief for Railways. Meny thanks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Does any man dream that a Gael can fear, Of a thousand deeds let hiM learn but One; The Shannon swept onward broad and clear, Between the Leaguers and worn Athlone…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WE have been requested by the committee of the Lord's Day Society to publish the following correspondence in reference to the late increase in the Sunday trains:— I…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All those who are acquainted with India and its affairs must recogniese a new "sign of the times" in the fact that a native Prince has at last constructed a railway at his own cost, and has thus, we may hope, inaugurated the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Several letters have from time to time appeared in your columns calling attention to the very disgraceful state of the Botany Road, but not one of these letters has all[?]de[?] to the mysterious and conflicting proclamations which have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BEFORE you called for tenders for Penrith Bridge, were not borings made! Yes. By whom? By Mr. Robinson, the inspector there.—Evidence of Engineer-in-Chief for Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE have been requested by the committee of the Lord's Day Society to publish the following correspondence in reference to the late increase in the Sunday trains:— To the Honorable the Minister for Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE extraordinary wealth created by railways has been too little recognised. The development of railway traffic is sufficiently well known. More than one hundred and eighty millions of passengers travelled…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The damage to the railways does not appear to have been so serious as was at first reported, nor to be of a permanent character; but now that the lines to Picton and Penrith are the principal means of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE very severe and disastrous floods with which the colony has been visited during the past month have seriously interrupted the carrying out of the railway contracts; and we have consequently little to report…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Bathurst Times of Wednesday last gives the follwing account of the late robberies on the Orange-road:- Though our district has for months enjoyed an imm[?]nity from the raids of bushrangers, our highways appear…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOUGH our district has for months enjoyed an immunity from the raids of bushrangers, our highways appear doomed to become again the theatre of their depredations. A double piece of atrocity was…
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