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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
262 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 14
Sir,—A letter appeared ia your contemporary's issue of the 17th instant, signed "G" setting forth the diffculties and impracticability of manufacturing railway plant in this colony. New, as I am of opinion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WITH reference to our article on "The Rule of the Hoad at Sea," Mr. Lacon has requested us to re-write the following paragraphs in order that the subject should he thoroughly understood by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir, — I read with considerable interest the debate on the above subject;, as reported in the EMPIRE of the 10th instant, believing that Sunday trains, as they are called, are a curse, and the cause of public calamity,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On January 25, a serious accident occurred to Henry Morriss, aged 30, a ran driver, in the employ of the Midland railway. It appears that as he was crossing the line, near the St. Pancras station, to go to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DURING this month the officers of the Roads Department in the Sold and office, have been actively engaged getting up and inviting tenders, aud letting the contracts for maintenance and construction for 1869…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE estimates for the raliway department have been under consideration in the Legislative Assombly during the month, and they have naturally given rise to a good deal of discussion. The debates have had reference not so much…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In the Roads Department during this month the officers in the field and office have been actively engaged getting [?], inviting tenders, and letting the contracts for maintenance and construction for 1869…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A lengthened report of Mr. Tram's speech to a meeting of Fenians at New York has been published in the "New York Herald." He gave a vivid account of his adventures in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Everybody unfortunately does not keep a banking account; so the vast majority of those who have not this luck may well be excused for not understanding all the difficult minutiae by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—It is so unusual a thing to see in a public newspaper a report of the proceedings of a meeting of a road trust, that myself and many of the inhabit[?]nts of this place were somewhat surprised, to find in your…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Exchanges of London and of Western Europe generally have been busy of late subscribing to Russian railway loans. Within the present year Russia has obtained by this means…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—The above bridge is a [?]ment of incapacity on the part of either the engineer of the Great Northern Railway, or the Minister for Works for the time being, or both. Some two years since I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—With your permission, and in answer to the challenge of Mr. Lucas to propose a better scheme than his, making the terminus for passenger traffic in the George-street Markets, I would propose a plan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN a few weeks the southern railway will be opened to the capital of the southern districts—the city of…
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—A few months since I made plans for what I considered a very great improvement in Sydney. I exhibited them to the Ministers for Works and Lands, several members of the Legislative Council and Assembly, the mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SEVERAL new expenditures for public works were Sanetioned by the Parliament, and noted in our last monthly summary. Plans and other preparations are making with a view to carry them into effect, but there has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE rains which have fallen during the month have considerably interfered with several of the contracts, the works upon which have consequently been prosecuted at a much slower rate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—Many people here would like to know pretty soon if we are to have a local holiday merely upon the occasion of opening the Great Southern Railway into the City of Goulburn, or that there be a holiday at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A deputation comprising the Major of Newtown (Mr. Curtis), and the following members of the Borough Council—Aldermen Munro, Bailey, and Kingsbury, Mr. Banks, the council clerk, accompanied by S. C…
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