The Botany Road Saw Mills
The great accession to population that has taken place within this last two or three years in the direction of Redfern, Waterloo, and Botany has been accompanid by a corresponding extension of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1869
262 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 14
Commissioner for Railways and the Appointment of Manager. to the Editor of the Empire
Sir,—As the appointment of an efficient person to the office of traffic manager is a matter which deeply concerns the public, I beg, with your consent, to address a few words on the subjeot, in hopes that it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smoking in Railway Carriages. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Being a constant traveller, second-class twice a day by rail, and having taken my season ticket subject to the rules and regulations, I went to live out of town for health and comfort, and Sir, of course, thought the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elephants and Railways. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Your issue of Wednesday last contained an extract under the heading of "The Elephant and the Railway," from the "Indo-European Correspondence," stating that a very serious accident, brought about in a manner unknown,…
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late on Sunday evening, a telegram was received by the Hen. the Minister for Works, informing him that the Glenrock bridge or viaduct, on the Great Southern Line of Railway, was likely to be carried…
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IN the Roads department most of the works on the main roads have been let, excepting those south of Yass on the Southern Road, and north of the Moonbies on the Northern Road…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Muswellbrook Railway Demonstration. (From the Maitland Mercury.)
A MEMBER of the Muswellbrook Railway Demoustration committee, and another gentleman at proseut on visit to Muswellbrook, have each kindly favoured us with an account of the preparations made for carrying out the…
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BEFORE our next Summary is published we shall have to chronicle the completion and opening of the Southern line of railway to Goulburn—this extension giving an additional length of nineteen miles. The day fixed for the…
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SEVERAL important works are in progress and others projected, under the department of Harbours and Rivers. Beginning at the Moruya River, on the Southern coast, we may mention that an iron jetty is about to be erected for the…
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Late on Sunday evening, a telegram was received by the Hon. the Minister for Works, informing him that the Glenrook bridge or viaduct, on the Great Southern Line of Railway, was likely to be carried…
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AT Ruthin Assizes, on Tuesday, March 23, before Baron Channell, Richard Williams and Robert Jones surrendered on bail, charged under three distinct coroner's warrants with the manslaughter of Charles…
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THE, Channel maybe crossed above by means of a bridge, upon it by steamer, and beneath by a tunnel. A fourth mode proposed is that of going neither above, upon, or below, but through the body of water in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Law. Supreme Court.—thursday. (Before his Honor Sir Alfred Stephen, Chief Justice, and a jury of four.) EVANS V. the Commissiones for Railways
Sir James Martin, Q C.,and Mr. Fisher, instructed by Mr. M'Calloch, for the plaintiff; Mr. Darley a Mr. Manning, instructed by the Crown Solicitor, for the defendant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opening of the Great Northern Railway to Musclebrook. [From Our Special Reporter.]
AN additional length of the Great Northern Railway, that, from Singleton to Muserebrook, has been opened by his Excellency the Earl of Belmore, and to-day (19th) the [?]chants, marimers, and miners of the South…
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His Excellency the Earl of Belmore, with the Countess and suite, left Sydney by the Australasian Steam Navigation Company's steamship Coonanbara on Tuesday evening, at…
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RAILWAYS and railway-stations have been vary hardly entreated by our poets and romancists. Perhaps the fact that our men of letters hare but a slight acquaintance with railway-scrip may have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steam Roads. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In an article published in the Herald of a late date on the temporary failure of the meat-preserving process by freezing, you conclude by a paragraph stating that one of two great impediments to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Personal Injury From Railway Accidents, and Effect of Shocks to the Nervous System. To the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—A case of much importance was determined at the Supreme Court on Thursday, the 20th instant, before his Honor the Chief Justice and a jury of four, wherein the plaintiff was awarded £1000 damages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opening of the Great Southern Railway to Goulburn. [From Our Special Reporter.] Goulburn, 27Th May
THE Great Southern Railway to Goulburn has been opened by His Excellency the Earl of Belmore to-day. It is an event which augurs well fer the rapid growth, and great prosperity of this city, and the southern districts, and one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Opening of the Great Southern Railway Extension, by Electrio Telegraph. Goulburn, Thursday, 4 p.m
The demonstration in celebration of the offical open ing of the extension of the Great Southern Railwas this city came off to-day, under the auspices of an influential committee of the leading residents of Argyle,…
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