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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
396 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 20
ON Tuesday Mils Marion Dundridge, aged eleven, daughter of Major Dundridge, of the Bengal Staff Corps, lost her life by falling out of a carriage on the London on Brighton Railway, and the accident so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN a communication to the Fremantle Herald of the 11th ultimo, Mr. Fairlie, C. E. says:-"I am prepared to build railways of three feet gauge that shall work as many tons per train at a speed of twenty to thirty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Tuesday Miss Marion Dundridge, aged eleven, daughter of Major Dundridge, of the Bengal Staff Corps, lost her life by falling out of a carriage on the London and Brighton Railway, and the accident so…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Will you permit me, through the medium of your widely circulated paper, to call the attention of the public to our railway system, and the adaptability of our country for such a work?…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A RECENT speech by Senator Thurman, in reference the rapid concoction of new railway schemes in the United States, draws the following comments from the Philadelphia Ledger of the 19th ultimo:-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR—Will you permit me, through, the medium of your widely circulated paper, to call the attention of the public to our railway system, and the adaptability of our country for such a work?…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"STREET-RAILWAYS" were unknown in Sydney in my time, but, if I mistake not, you have long had one in Pitt-street. At home, too, in Birkenhead and the Potteries, passenger tramways are no novelty; and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PUBLIC meeting, convened by advertisement, was held in the Assembly-room of the Royal Hotel, on Thursday evening last, "to take into consideration the new traffic rates issued by the Government, which prohibit the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following By-laws have been approved of by the Governor and Executive Council for regulating the use of the Government Railways, to be observed henceforth by all parties:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR,—I may conclude my observations upon this bill by noticing the fact, that the Australian Agricultural Company is watching it, ready to pounce upon the devoted Treasury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE twenty-ninth half-yearly report of the directors of the Pyrmont Bridge Company:- In accordance with the terms of the Deed of Settlement the directors submit to the shareholdors the balance-sheet for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE following account of Mr. R. W. Thomsons roadsteamer was read by Professor Archer at the recent meeting of the British Association. We quote from the report of it in the Engineer:…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following account of Mr. R. W. Thomson's road- steamer was road by Professor Archer at the recent meeting of the British Association. We quote from the report of it in the Engineer:—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—In last week's issue of the Town and Country Journal you published a letter headed "Railways for the interior," and signed " Fair Play." Now, I perfectly coincide with the writer of that letter in regard…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A PUBLIC meeting, convened by advertisement, was held in the Assembly-room of the Royal Hotel, on Thursday, 21st instant, " to take into consideration the now traffic rates issued by the Government, which prohibit the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"STREET-RAILWAYS" were unknown in Sydney in my time, but, if I mistake not, you have long had one in Pitt-street. At heme, too, in Birkenhead and the Potteries, passenger tramways are no novelty; and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE following By-laws have been approved of by the Governor and Executive Council for regulating the use of the Government Railways, to be observed henceforth by all parties:—…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,--I wish to draw your attention, and also the attention of those favourable, to the working classes, to the way in which the Government are treating their railway employees, in not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE difficulties of the Ministor charged with the management of our Railways are largely increased by local jealousies and the clashing of opposing interests. Instead of being regarded as common properly, belonging to and…
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