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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
228 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 12
THE great Trans-Continental Line from Omaha via Suit Lake to Sacramento, California, now pushing forward rapidly from both ends, is built by two companies: The Central Pacific, composed chiefly of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Some cause for complaint exists at the non complelion of the now bridge at Penrith. It is now some nine or ten months since the iron work was finished, and yet there is not even one side of the flooring done, nor is the earth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT twenty minutes past 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, 26th February, a very appalling accident happened at Clifton, near Penrith, on the London and NorthWestern Railway. It seems that as a luggage train…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT twenty minutes past 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, 26th February, a very appalling accident happened at Clifton, near Penrith, on the London and North-Western Railway. It seems that as a luggage train…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir, — Permit me, through the medium of your journal, to call the attention of the authorities to annoyances and abuses that I have recently been subjected to, and which it appears to me the officials on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hurrah for the road of all roads Where the dogcarts and buggies are tearing; Where the 'busses all reel 'neath their loads, And the cabbies are merrily swearing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR.—On Saturday, there being a cossation of the raiay weather, my wife and self resolved on meeting the noonday excursion train at Parramatta, being induced by the comparative low price to spare our horee and carriage and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A fearful accident of a very remarkable kind happened on the Lancaster and Carliale railway shortly before midnight last night, near Yanwath Bridge, about a mile and a half south of Penrith station. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In a recent letter to your journal we stated our intention of submitting to you some observations on the subject of population in connection with our proposal for carrying out railway extension in this colony…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—There certainly appears in the present management of our railways the most persistent injustice towards the people in the country. Sydney is exclusively and specially favoured during the Agricultural Show at Parramatta, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →So little progress has of late been made in the construction of our railways that, in writing of them from month to month, it is difficult to find anything new to say, and to avoid what has been stated before. Beyond the bare fact…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →RECARDING the progress of railway enterprise in Great Britain, the Ratlway News says:- No feature in the statistical narrative of the kingdom's progress in material wealth is so remarkable as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Science of Advertising—for advertising ia a science although not always scientifically carried out—for the reasson that it is not generally understood, like all others has its disciples, and its opponents…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sir,—It is now nearly six months since the cars ceased running, and, as every citizen must be aware, Pitt-street is in a for more dangerous state at the present time than ever; in many places, the wooden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANNUAL Report from the Chief Engineer Southern and Western Railway, to A. O. Herbert, Esq., Commissioner for Railways. Southern and Western Railway,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A DEPUTATION from the Committee formed at Deniliquin waited on his Excellency on Wednesday, 15th instant, at 10 o'clock, pursuant to appointment. The deputation comprised Messrs. G. S. Lang, J.P., Mr. Robertson, solicitor;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—On Friday last, being anxious to go to Parramatta, I applied for tickets for myself and son, the latter eleven years old, and instead of being charged at fare-and-half, I was compelled to pay two full fares,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—May I be allowed a sbort space in your columns to bring under the notice of "those whom it may concern" the almost entire stoppage put on the traffic of the Great North Road, by the impracticable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A DEPUTATION from the committee formed at Deniliquin waited on his Excellency on Wednesday, 15th ultimo, at 10 o'clock, pursuant to appointment. The deputation comprised Messrs. G. S. Lang, J.P., Mr. Boberteon, solicitor;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ANNUAL Report from the Chief Engineer Southern and Western Railway, to A. O. Herbert, Eeq., Commissioner for Railway. S[?]tbern and Western Railway,…
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