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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
352 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 18
Mr. F. T. Rose, a gentleman connected with the Harbours and Rivera Department, in a paper read before the members of tho Engineering Association of New South Wales, at their last meeting, proposes to connect the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. E. Go, having been humbly requested to undertake the duties of Commissioner of railways, Engineer-in-chief, Engine-driver, Guard, Light porter, Pointsman, Ticket clerk, &c, &c, &e, states the conditions under which he would undertake the duties, viz :--…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SIR,—Two letters have recently appeared in your paper, signed "E.Mason, Pennant Hills," complaining of the omission of the vote for miner roads. In the first, Mr. Mason remarked that when complaint was made on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING the past nine months especial attention has been given by the War Department to the subject of steam traction on common roads; but, in fact, for a number of years past the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT the Derby Bor[?] police-court, yesterday, Matthew Gooden, aged forty-three, contractor, Dud ley, was brought up on remand from the previous Saturday, charged with travelling from Hasbro' to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—With what a self-satisfactory air the present Government has proclaimed a saving of £44,000; had the assertion been true it could not have been made with greater coolness. The fact is that the very greater part of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT is impossible to estimate the immensity in value, and the wondrous advantages which ag[?]ure has derived from the co[?]struction of railways. They p[?]trate into every part of the [?]gdom, the most isolated districts [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An influential deputation has waited on His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, at the Viceregal Lodge, for the purpose of urging the Government to adopt some measures for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →SINCE the days of Telford and Macadam, but very little improvement, if any, has taken place ia the method of constructing roads. Stone, or as it is more generally termed metal, is still the chief material that is used. The…
Continued on Trove, page 75 →THERE is no truth in the report that the Commissionership of Railways has been offered to Mr. J. Hoskins. It is said that that hon. gentleman wrote in good text hand "James Hoskins Kumishner of Ralewase," and handed it to Sir James Martin. The Premier,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A LECTURE with this title has just been published in Melbourne, by Mr. Howard Spensley, Barrister-at-law. The lecture was delivered at Portland, a town whose ambition is to be the chief port of the fertile western…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A PUBLIC meeting of the inhabitants of Richmond, convened by public [?] for the purpose of taking steps to petition. Parliament to remedy the grievance occasioned by the present unsatisfactory state of the Richmond bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New York, February 7th.—The train leaving New York at 8 o'clock last evening met an oil train on the New Hamburg drawbridge. The oil train jumped the track, and broke in two, and an oil car…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE are now twenty-six cuttings finished on Contract No. 7 of the Western extension. 10,030 lineal yards of formation have boen trimmed; 4200 lineal yards of bottom ballast have been laid, and 1630…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BY the arrival of the Wonga Wonga we are placed in possession of many interesting details of matters which the telegraphic news via Suez had left in doubt. The latest date from Europe mentioned in our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the last issue of this journal was given a description of the steam road roller used iu Paris, and the cost of working it. Similar rollers are in use in England. The one in use at Liverpool was made by Messrs. Aveling and Porter. A…
Continued on Trove, page 121 →BLOOD and iron or labour and iron! Iron as the instrument of peace, life, and industry, or iron as the instrument of war, death, and conquest! These are the issues which stand face to face with modern…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New York, February 7th.—The train leaving New York at 8 o'clock last evening met an oil train on the New Hamburg drawbridge. The oil train jumped the track, and broke in two, and an oil car…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT twenty-four minutes after 10 o'clock on Monday night, February 6, a specia1 freight train, or "wild cat," as such are called in railroad phrase, laden with petroleum oil, in tanks and barrels, passed the station…
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