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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
238 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 12
Sir,—The railway authorities in Sydney ought to be told how things are managed at some of the country stations. I wish to call your attention to the treatment a plain but well to do farmer received whilst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE works under the Road Department throughout the colony for this year are fast being completed. With very few exceptions all the works for which money has been voted are either completed, in progress, or let. The chief…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →OUR readers will note elsewhere a reference to the establishment of Mr. Duncan Sim, of Morpeth, and will probably observe with gratification that so thriving an establishment, and one capable of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE past month has been a rather quiet one in the Railway department. The works upon the various extensions are going forward, but there is nothing of very great importance to chronicle in relation to them…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE works in the country which above all others will interest the citizens of Sydney will be the works for supplying Sydney with water. The Water Commission appointed upon the motion of Mr. Neal[?], one…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN our article No. 2 on the Great Western Railway we described, briefly, the works on the line from the commencement of No. 5 Section down to the level crossing of the Mudgee Road at the village of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN our article No. 2 on the Great Western Railway we described, briefly, the works on the line from the commencement of No. 6 Section down to the level crossing of the Mudgee Head at the village of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A riband, a medal, a piece of plate, A painted scroll full of senseless praise--These, reward impostors for waxing great, And men who prosper by cunning ways…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR,—Allow ono who has for the last two years been a constant traveller by railway from Ashfield to Sydney to make use of your valuable columns to draw the attention of the Hon. the Minister for Works to the very rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE hon. member for Newtown, Mr. S. C. Brown, on the 10th instant, introduced into the Legislative Assembly a bill to enable the trustees, for the time being, of the parish road leading from Sydney to the dam of Cook's River, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I beg leave to draw your attention to the dangerous state of the streets and roads in and about Sydney, which are full of ruts and strewn with loose metal. Having lately visited Melbourne, where the streets and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—Why do not the Glebe Municipal Council and the other similar Councils about Sydney regularly employ men, in this dry weather, in removing loose metal from the roads and streets. Every piece tends to the further destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A [?]ful accident occurred on the South Wales, railway near Newnham, on the night of the 5th November. The mail train Milford to Paddington ran into a special cattle train a mile and a half from here. Several…
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →SIR,—My letter on steam roads, published last month, having excited some interest in the neighbourhood of Braidwood, Goulburn, and this place; and as there seems to be but one opinion as to the benefits which would accrue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN the Rond department there is very little to report, the road works for 1868 being nearly all completed. The time for opening tendera for the iron bridge over the Nimboy river has been extended to 5th January…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BEYOND the oft-repented repetition that the works upon the various extensions of our railways are still in progress, there is really very little to say. Upon the Southorn line all the work that remains to be done is comprised in a moderate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Estimates of Expenditure for 1869 were laid upon the inblc, on the 9th instunt, and provision is made for carrying out a large number of public works. A sum of £5000 is set down for building a sea wall[?] from Fort…
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