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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
228 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 12
Making every allowance for the undue diversion of capital into railway investments under the influences of a speculative[?] mania, the rapid growth of the railway system of the United Kingdom to its present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PUBLIC meeting was held on Wednesday evening in the Court-house (his Worship the Mayor in the chair), for the purpose of protesting against the removal of the Government workshops. The proceedings were advertised to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DEPUTATION waited upon the Minister for Works, at his office on Tuesday, for the purpose of inducing him to use his influence with the Government to lower the rates for passengers on the suburban line of railway. The deputation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DEPUTATION, consisting of the Mayor of Sydney (Mr. Moore), Mr. Alderman Sutherland, and Mr. Alderman Catley, waited upon the Minister for Works, at his office, on Tuesday, with reference to the present state of Pitt-street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—We beg to place in your hands for publication copy of a letter, which we have had the honour of addressing to the Honorable James Martin, Esq., the Premier, submitting to him a plan for railway extension, by which the various…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A PUBLIC meeting was held on Wednesday evening in the Court-house (his Worship the Mayor in the chair), for the purpose of protesting against the removal of the Government workshops. The proceedings were advertised to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The following letter from Sir Charles F[?] M. I. C. E., has r[?]hed as (Queensland Times) through Mr. Fitz[?]bbon, who writes as follows:â "It may be well to state that the present running…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—When the public suffers long under flagrant mismanagement in a great public department, it is natural to appeal to your powerful aid in obtaining redres[?]. The way in which the interests of the people to the South have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of those charming rustic contrivances which upset a gentleman's buggy and pitch the owner into a "gentle brook."…
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Continued on Trove, page 13 →THE complaints of the settlers in the Hunter district respecting want of bridge accommodation have recently met with some attention, several new ones being in course of completion; that shown in our engraving is just finished. It is situated across the Pater…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—The Sydney Morning Herald of the 23rd March last contained an important suggest on from Messrs. Lennon and Cape as to the future construction of our railways, and as the publication of their proposal seems to invite…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—By means of the press a great deal of correspondence has taken place lately on the question of suburban railway traffic. Meetings of parties living along the line and others interested, wero held to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—The new line of road from Green Hills to T[?]rarn, at Shoalhaven, requires two bridges at once over the two small hollows filled up by the trustees. This was bad policy, there might at least have been two…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Under the heading of "Our Railways," Mr.J. Mu[?] published in the Herald of yesterday a copy of a letter which he addressed to the Honorable the Premier on the subject of our "important suggestion," as he terms it,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PUBLIC attention has been directed during the past month to proposals for extending the railways into the interior, and also to the traffic on the lines now open. In this country, where so much of the future progress of the interior must…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—In my letter on the subject of constructing our railways by private enterprise, there is a typographical error which I shall feel obliged by your correcting. I am made te say that the capital sum represented by the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—If railway tickets could be bought at the Stamp Offices as well as at the stations, I am certain it would prevent much annoyance to railway travellers. The tickets might be distinguished by being of various…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Under the above heading there have appeared in your journal two letters from Messrs. Lennon and Cape, and one from Mr. J, Mullens, inviting discussion as to the best means of raising capital to extend railways through the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →STATIONS. Passengers. Goods Sunday Passengers. Trains leave— a.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. Newcastle......... 7 15 11 35 3 20 10 0 7 15 3 20…
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