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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
182 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 10
SIR,—Will you allow me to call attention, through your columns, to the unjustifiable delay caused to vessels requiring to proceed through Pyrmont Bridge. If a vessel comes to the bridge at half-past 5 in the evening, she must wait till next morning about 7,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Knowing that you are fully alive to the importance of offectuating and maintaning a well-devised scheme of internal communication. I would take the liberty through your influentlal columns of making a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In reply to a letter appearing in your issue of to-day respecting the Pyrmont Bridge, I trust you will give insertion to the following explanation:— The writer of that letter ("J. A") states that at twenty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE half yearly meeting of the Pyrmont Bridge Company was held on the 30th July, at their office. The Hon. George Allen presided. The following report was road and adopted:—…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THERE is not a great deal to report this month in reference to railway extension in the colony. There are many public works which the Government would like to push on as rapidly as they could be, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Great Northern has hitherto been regarded as being one of the best managed railway systems in the kingdom, but at the present moment that system is almost entirely blocked…
Continued on Trove, page 535 →On Thursday, his Excellency Sir John Young proceeded, at 1 o'clock, to the new bridge erected over the Hunter River, at Singleton. The morning had been very wet, but, fortunately, the weather cleared about 1 o'clock, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →YESTERDAY afternoon, by the 2.50 goods train from Helidon, about 200 of the unemployed labourers on the line between Ipswich and Toowoomba came down en route for Brisbane to lay their complaints before the Governor. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—We should like much to know why we are not connected by a good military road, that our Volunteers could use in case of need, as the work could easily be carried out by the Government in a year, were they to supplement the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Wednesday last, the second Spring Show in connection with the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association took place at Singleton. The Show of the present far transcends that of last year,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT is now no longer a master of uncertainty respecting the extension (long lalked of) of the railway Rchuca to Deniliqnin, as public opinion seems to have confirmed the absolune necessity for the work, we very well remember…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—All the sporting characters in Sydney are, or ought to be, well aware of the unpleasantness arising from the red dust on the Bandwick Road, to stop which it appears no one has ever, after the races are over, given a thought to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS bridge was designed and carried out under the superintendence of Mr. Whitton, Engineer-in-chief for Railways in this colony, and consists of three openings of 186 feet clear span each. The piers, four in number, are built in Ashlar masonry, set in Portland cement, carried down six feet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE first serious attempt to grapple with the difficulties attendant on the carrying out of such a work was made by M. A. Thorne de Gamond, who in 1867 presented to the Emperor of the French an elaborate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE is but little progress to report this month in our railway construction. The works which were being carried on last month are still in progress, but the contractors are not pushing them on so vigorously as they might, as it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following communication relative to a proposed railway from Deniliquin to Echuca, by which the former, place would be brought into railway communication with Melbourne, appears in the columns of the Pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—About three or four months ago, a semi-official notice was given in both the daily papers that a wharf would be constructed at the head of Darling Harbour, and that the Harris Estate claim would be finally…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On Tuesday Mr. Serjeant Payne, the city coroner, held an inquest at the Coal Exchange Tavera, St. Maryat-Hill, on the body o'John Henry Whitehead, aged 28, who destroyed himself by jumping off London…
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Continued on Trove, page 12 →SIR,—Finding that a movement is on foot to promote the extension of the line of railway from Echnea to Deniliquin, I would submit to you one or two doubts existing in my own mind as to the desirability of such a step being…
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