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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
442 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 23
SIR,—The letter of Mr. Samuel Goold, appearing in your issue of the 26th instant, on the question of the sale of spirituous liquors at the Railway Stations, will not be likely to strengthen the case of oppesition against the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—Will you allow me, through your columns, to call the attention of the railway authorities to one or two what conceive to be very inconvenient regulations in the otherwise perfect arrangements which regulate the passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A PUBLIC meeting was held in the Temperance Hall, on Monday last, for the purpose of protesting against the passing of the bill, recently introduced into Parliament, for legalising the sale of liquors at railway…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SIR,—As the writer of one of the letters to which Mr. Pilcher replies in yesterday's Herald, I ask the favour of the insertion of a short rejoinder. It appears to me, after reading the reply, that Mr. Pilcher somewhat regrets…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The BENDIGO ADVERTISER of Friday tells the following deplorable story: "The history of a woman whose name appears in our report of yesterday's proceedings at the City Court would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Paris papers report an attempt at murder in a railway carriage on the Lyons Railway, between the stations of Tarasco and Arles. An inspector of forests, residing at the former place, was on his way to Aubayne, when he was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE MOUNT ALEXANDER MAIL writes :—"On Friday evening last a land selector, who was travelling with a small flock of sheep from the neighbourhood of Strangways northward, had arrived as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME fifty years ago, a writer in the Quarterly Review, treating of the application of steam locomotion, disclosed that he would as soon trust himself to be fired off on a Congreve rocket as travel by a steam-engine at the preposterous…
Continued on Trove, page 584 →WINDING and REGULATING CLOCKS and GUARDS' WATCHES, &c., on the Great Northern Railway, Newcastle. TENDERS will be received at this Office until 11…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →THE township of Penrith occupies a fine situation on the banks of the Nepean River, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, and thirty-two miles from Sydney. It was a flourishing, and, indeed, an…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →We suppose that if all the railways in the universe were brought under comparison, none could be found behind New South Wales, in one particular, viz., that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE MOUNT ALEXANDER MAIL writes:—"On Friday evening last a land selector, who was travelling with a small flock of sheep from the neighbourhood of Strangways northward, had arrived as…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →On Wednesday morning, as the 1.30 train from Goulburn was approaching the bridge over the Mnl-waree Ponds, a short distance from the city. the engine struke one of three [?] the property of a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wort in connection with the contracts to the extension of the Northern. Southern, and Western railway [?] progressing well, but the inability of the contractors to obtain labour delays the work…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I regret being egain compelled to draw the attention of the ratepayers to the present state of the Marrickville Roads, and in doing so I beg leave to suggest to those who take an interest in the welfare of the district, to walk over…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →EXCURSI0N TICKETS at a single fare for the doable journey will be issued at all Stations for distances over 15 miles, upon the 22nd and 24th instant, available for return up to and including 27th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—If "A Constant Traveller " will take a wal[?] along the Canterbury New Road he will sea evidences of neglect on the part of the municipal authorities which will, I am sure, astonish him—for that road, although the main…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EXCURSION TICKETS at a slngle fare for the double journey will be issued at all Stations for distances over 15,miles, upon the"22nd and 24th instant, available for return up to and includi[?]; 27th instant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE Deniliqui[?] and Moama Railway project is fairly floated. The directors had to break with the London f[?] of Clark, Punchard, and Reeve, partially owing to their dilato[?]ss, and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ON Tuesday evening, 24th February (the Times reports), a meeting of the members of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held at the Institution, Great George-street, Westminster; Mr. Thomas E…
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