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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
396 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 20
THE ELKO Independent says:-"Several times of late the trains on the Central Pacific hailroad, cast of this place, have been stopped by crickets, and delayed sometimes over an hour in a place. Mr. Gidney, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the annexed engraving we give a design by Mr. L. J. Todd, Leith, for a little road steamer or steam velocipede, which will interest many of our readers. The main frame consists of a single angle iron. The boiler…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SIR,—No one of the numerous visitors to the salubrious region of the Kurrajong but must have been struck with surprise at the deplorable condition of the Richmond bridge over the Hawkesbury…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE formation of the new road to Wollongong and the Illawarra district, from the ferry at George's River, is progressing as rapidly as circumstances will permit. There has been some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following statistics of the probable traffic on the projected extension of the railway to Orange from Bathurst, have been published, and copies furnished to each member of the House of Assembly:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR, —I think your correspondent "Euroka," in Tuesday's issue, has been unnecessarily unjust and severe in his strictures upon the Richmond Bridge Company. He says that an exorbitant and illegal toll is extorled from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SHORTLY after noon yesterday, a deputation of gentlemen comprising Mr. Dight, M. L. A., Mr. Moses, M. L. A., Mr. Hoskins, M. L. A., Mr. Ellis (of the produce firm of Ellis and Co.), Mr. Gosper, and Mr. Henfrey, waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Perceiving a letter in this day's Herald with the above heading, and signed "Euroka," will you permit me, as one of the directors of the Richmond Bridge Company, to inform your correspondent and the public, that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—"A Shareholder," in your issue of yesterday, seeks to imply that the Act of incorporation contains only a stipulation for the erection and maintenance of "a Bridge," and utterly repudiates any responsibility concerning the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →YESTERDAY morning a numerous deputation of produce merchants, farmers, and others had an interview with the Hon, John Sutherland, Commissioner for Railways, respecting the rates for the carriage of hay by the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ABOUT noon on Wednesday, a deputation of gentlemen comprising Mr. Dight, M.L.A., Mr. Moses, M.L.A., Mr. Hoskins, M.L.A., Mr. Ellis (of the produce firm of Ellis and Co.), Mr. Gosper and Mr. Benhey, waited upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →SIR,—It seems useless bandying words with ''Eu[?], who is either ignorant of the plain meaning and legal signification of terms, or is unwilling to acknowledge the same…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY the Estimates of Expenditure for 1871, which have been laid before the Legislative Assembly during the month, we find that the Government propose to borrow £1,550,000 for railway purposes. Of this amount £290,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On 28th ultimo, a numerous deputation of produce merchants, farmers, and others had an interview with the Hon. John Sutherland, Commissioner for Railways, respecting the rates for the carriage of hay by the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE correspondent of the Standard, speaking of the news of the battle of Woerth, says:—"The first incident of which we received notice was the capture of 1000 French soldiers in a railway train. Similar…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE useful application of steam power to the transportation of persons and merchandise upon the common road, is the problem for the solution of which civilization now halts. The mechanical…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →FRANK Thorne, who has advertised that he will leap from the new bridge at Niagara, jumped by way of practice, from the roof of the Watson Elevator into Buffalo River. A plank was run out some three feet,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FRANK Thorne, who has advertised that he will leap from the new bridge at Niagara, jumped by way of practice, from the roof of the Watson Elevator into Buffalo River. A plank was run out some three feet,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A LONDON journal of the 18th September reports that a very serious accident, resulting in the death of three persons and the injury of several others, occurred to the up Irish mail on Wednesday morning,…
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