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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1875

442 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 23

Government Notices. Government Railways. Great Western Railway. Kelso Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 November 1875 · page 7

NOTICE, on and after the 22nd instant, all GOODS designed for Bathurst and Kelso may be consigned to and will be delivered at the KELSO STATION. All Goods for places beyond the immediate…

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Government Notices. Government Railways. Great Western Railway. Kelso Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1875 · page 2

NOTICE, on and after the 22nd instant, all GOODS dosigned for Bathurst and Kelso may be consigned to and will be delivered at the KELSO STATION. All Goods for places beyond the immediate…

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Opening of Railway to Gunning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1875 · page 5

On 2nd institut an important [?] in the history of railway construction in New South Wales was marked by the opening of a further extension of the Groat Southern line from Goulburn to Gunning—a distance of nearly thirty-one…

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Our Railway Stationary

Sydney Punch · Friday 19 November 1875 · page 3

THE now railway station at Five Dock is worthy of note as one of our public institutions. Unlike many buildings in the metropolis, where comfort has to be sacrificed to space, this triumph of departmental enterprize covers the extensive area of 10 feet by 6 feet,…

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A Railway Jubilee

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1875 · page 667

Fifty years ago the first train drawn by a steam-engine, and carrying passengers, started between Darlington and Stockton, and the jubilee has been celebrated in the district in so half-hearted manner. The herdsman's boy and the…

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Timber Railway Trucks

Evening News · Tuesday 23 November 1875 · page 5

The Commissioner for Railways invites tenders up to the 14th December, from persons willing to contract for building fifty timber trucks…

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Clarence and New England Railway

Evening News · Tuesday 23 November 1875 · page 5

The following gentlemen waited upon the Minister for Werks at his office at noon to-day to urge upon the Government the necessity of connecting the tableland of New England with the port of…

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Government Notices. Department of Public Works. Railway Branch, Sydney, 22nd November, 1875

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 November 1875 · page 7

TO WAGGON BUILDERS AND OTHERS.— TENDERS will be received at this office, until TUESDAY, the 14th December, at 11 o'clock a.m., from persons willing to contract for building Fifty Timber…

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The Truck System on the Railways

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 688

IN the course of last session there was some discussion upon the question whether the truck system, or practices closely akin it, had not been introduced by contractors on some of the railway extensions. The…

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Courageous Act on a Railway

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 November 1875 · page 28

Another railway engineer has shown himself a hero. A train a few days ago was entering Cincinnati and was running with considerable speed,…

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Government Notices. Department of Public Works. Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 19th November, 1875. Gar, St. Leonards, to Military Road, North Shore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 December 1875 · page 7

Flesh TENDERS will be received at this Office, unitl 11 o'clock of TUESDAY, the 7th day of December, from person willing to contrct for the following works on the abovementioned raod:—…

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Strike on the Maryborough and Avoca Railway

Evening News · Thursday 2 December 1875 · page 6

A telegram to the ARGUS of Tuesday says:—This morning, as Mr. Farley, contractor for this line, was walking along the line he was met by all the men and navvies employed, in a body. He asked them…

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Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 18th November 1875

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 December 1875 · page 2

TO ENGINEERS AND OTHERS—TENDERS will be received at this office until TUESDAY, the 21st December, at 11 o'clock a.m., from peasons willing to contract for manufacturing in the colony six Locomotive…

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Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 19th November, 1875. Gap, St. Leonards, to Military Road, North Shore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 December 1875 · page 6

Fresh TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 11 o'clock of TUESDAY, the 7th day of December, from persons willing to contract for the following works on the abovementioned road:…

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Roads and the Road Trustees. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 14

SIR,—Under this heading I published a letter in your journal of October 9th, which I think showed clearly, in a general way, that the system of expending money by the Road…

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Bridge over the Waitaki, New Zealand

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 28

WE publish herowith a view of a bridge, designed by Mr. J. Millar, of Dunedin, New Zealand, to carry the Otago Great Northern Trunk Railway over the Wait[?]ki. a rlver of great width, and liable 'o…

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A Bridge of Glass. Chapter I.—the Poet of Atherby

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 23

EVRYBODY said in West Atherby that Matthew Ouail was a poet, and what everybody says must be true, What became of his poetry after he had spun his soul into verse, nobody in West Atherby…

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The Jubilee of Railways

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1875 · page 720

SOME of the late English papers have contained full accounts of the celebration of "The Jubilee of Railways" at Darlington, on the 25th. of September last. The first public railway owned by shareholders,…

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Railway Safety Appliances. (From the Times, September 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 December 1875 · page 3

"AMONG all the matters in which mankind at large have an interest, there are," said Mr. Bramwell, in his lecture to the British Association last Monday evening, "few that strike us as being more worthy…

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Government Notices. Department of Public Works, Railway Branch, Sydney, 18th November. 1875

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 December 1875 · page 2

TO ENGINEERS AND OTHERS.—TENDERS will be received at this office until TUESDAY, the 21st December, at 11 o'clock a.m., from persons willing to contract for manufacturing in the colony six Locomotive…

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