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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
396 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 20
All Goods and Merchandise, classed 1 to 4, will, on and alter the 1st July next, be conveyed on the Government Railways at "Owner's Risk" and charged accordingly, unless otherwise directed in consignment note…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—As the Goulburn objectors to Mr. Sutherland's new plan of running the day trains only to and from Goulburn, to save revenue, carried their first resolution, at last Monday's public meeting, by a "not very large majority," as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All Goods and Merchandise, classed 1 to 4, will, on and after the 1st July next, be conveyed on the Government Railways at "Owner's Risk" and charged accordingly, unless otherwise directed in consignment note…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Saturday afternoon, June 13, a number of gentlemen interested in our rapidly-developing colonial industries met at the works of Messrs. Hudson Brothers, Botany Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THOMSON'S road steamer is likely to become a carrying and working instrument of immense commercial importance. It is of moderate size, weighs from (5 to 10 tons, and may be constructed of any power. Those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—As the subject of incorporation of the towns, for the making of roads, &c., is much discussed just now, I beg leave to call the attention of your readers to a recent stroke of policy, abortive though it proved, in the oposite…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THOMSON'S road steamer is likely to become a carrying and working instrument of immense commercial importance. It is of moderate size, weighs from 6 to 10 tons, and amy be constructed of any power. Those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A FIRE took place this morning on South Head-road, in the shop of Mrs. Boberts, milliner and draper. At present the origin is unknown, but it is apparent chat it must have arisen in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It was a fine morning in June, the wind wa blowing freshly from the West, and although the sun was shining brightly, suspicious-looking clouds were sailing swiftly overhead, giving…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—Will you allow me, through the medium of your journal, to give a few particulars of a recent visit to the Blue Mountains by the Great Western Railway, with the object of giving a few hints to travellers by this route, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A FIRE took place on Saturday morning on South Headroad, in the shop of Mrs. Robberds, milliner and draper. At present the origin is unknown, but it is apparent that it must have arisen in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON May 12, as several persons were walking along the Thames Embankment, a woman was observed by them to climb over the parapet of Waterloo Bridge, and to jump off before any one on the bridge could…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE most important item of intelligence respecting railways matters which we have to record this month is the opening of the Great Western Line to Rydal, and that event took place on the 1st instant…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR.—Any saving clause in a bill so comprehensive in its scope of design and attack upon the Treasury (in other words the taxation wrung from the struggling inhabitants) naturally demands our…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE beginning of right statesmanship in a country is roadmaking, for roads are means of egression from barbarism to civilization. But, judging from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Amonget the many losses and inconveniences which have been created by the late floods, not the least serious we those which the destruction of Jugiong Bridge has occasioned. Two month have passed since the bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ABOUT 2 o'clock on Saturday morning last a fire broke out in the millinery establishment of Mrs. Robberds, 73, South Bead Road, near Riley-street The alarm was immediately raised, and the manual engine of the Insurance Brigade…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Information has keen reocived, that the Isthmus Kulin ay Copany at Panu[?]a has established a red light at the extremity of 1 the wharf, to-which point the rails run and passengers [?]mbark. The whart is siturate on the west side of the small bay, towards…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN a communication to the Fremantle Herald of the 11th ultimo, Mr. Fairlio, C. E. says:—" I am propared to build railways of three foot gauge that shall work as many tons per train at a speed of twenty to thirty…
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