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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
352 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 18
YESTERDAY mroning the inhabitants of Maryborough were horrified at the intelligence that a young man named Cleary, the nephew of one of our oldest settlers, had been barbarously shot near Richmond's Hotel, on the Gayndah…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—The long, almost continuous, rains of last year interfered very disastrously with the country trade, and the revenus of the colony suffered in consequence. Much of the sad results to both could have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE catalogue of terrible railway accidents on the London and North-Western Railway, which commenced with the appalling calamity at Abergele, received a sad addition on Saturday evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY morning the inhabitants of Maryborough were horrified at the intelligence that a young man named Cleary, the nephew of one of our oldest settlers, had been barbarously shot near Richmond's Hotel, on the Gayndah…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE following is one of the appendices to the report of the board appointed to inquire into the system of railway accounts &c.:â The Engineer-in-Chief to the Commissioner for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE catalogue of terrible railway accidents on the London and North-Western Railway, which commenced with the appalling calamity at Abergele, received a sad addition on Saturday evening. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Would you kindly give the space to contradict a statement made by the member for Camden on Tuesday last, and which appeared in the News on the following evening. Mr. Onslow is reported to have said that he had been informed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I am sorry there should be opposition to any scheme of simple retrenchment. In taking action in an extensive matter of this kind, pervading, as it does, so many Departments, it is impossible at first to adjust everything…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN the Legislative Assembly, on the 31st of January,- Mr. Macleay moved that the unsatisfactory state of internal communication in the colony demanded prompt attention, and that the Government ought to bring in a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE thirtieth half-yearly roport of the directors of the Pyrmont Bridge Company:- " In accordance with the deed of settlement the directors now submit to the shareholders the balance sheet for the nalf-year…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AT the monthly meeting of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, on Wednesday, 8th January, the following interesting paper was read by Mr. F. T. Role, the vice-president of the association…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →On the 10th February the Launceston railway was formally opened, on which the Mercury remarks:--This day may be considered to mark a new era in the history of material progress in Tasmania, when the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A terrible accident occurred to the northern bound express train on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, about four miles below Memphis, near Nonconnah Creek, at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 11th January, which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →At the monthly meeting of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, on Wednesday, 8th January, the following interesting paper was read by Mr. F. T. Role, tie vice-president of the association…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A RAILWAY collision of a dreadful nature occurred on Monday night, December 12, at the Stairfoot Station, near Barnsley, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Shortly after 6, a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—What is there exceptional in the annual grant for minor roads that it, and it alone, should be totally withheld for the future? And for what reason should the main roads of the colony be still kept under the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Is my last communication on this subject in figure 3 of the diagrams, I omitted to insert the diagonals. They should be represented by dotted lines centreing in the point B, and terminating respectively at the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →AT the Derby Borough police-court, yesterday, Matthew Gooden, aged forty-three, contractor, Dudley, was brought up on remand from the previous Saturday, charged with travelling from Masbro' to…
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