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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
922 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 47
SIR,—I notice in a late issue of your paper an able letter from the pen of Mr. Sydney Smith, showing the very high rates farmers have to pay for carriage of their produce on the Government railways when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the Orange district there exists a Farmers' Union, called the Spring Hill Farmers' Union, which was formed twelve months ago for the purpose of encouraging mutual assistance among agriculturists by…
Continued on Trove, page 845 →Sir,—One would imagine, from the state into which the Pvrmont Bridge Road has been allowed to fall, that instead of being within one mile of the City of Sydney, it was at least two hundred from it. We, who are residents of it,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Complaints are numerous, though unexpressed, at the injustice and absurdity of two great divisions of an important city like this being held in check by a private firm of men. This is the case as regards the Pyrmont Bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →There are now over 800 miles of railway lines [?] for traffic in Now South Wales, and this will be considerably increased as now lines are copmpleted— [?] as the extensions to Hay, Arr[?] and Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortly after 12 o'clock this morning an alarm of fire was given by one of the watchman employed on the works of the Redfern Railway Station, and shortly afterwards smoke was discovered issuing in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One of the largest fires ever known in Sydney broke out about ten minutes after twelve o'clock this morning, at the Railway Station, Sydney, and is still (2 p.m.) raging. So far the damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At 10 minutes past 12 o'clock this morning, what eventuated in a most destructive fire, broke out in a building used as a store-room by the Railway Department at the Redfern terminus…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—During the formation of this tramway, the roadway from the top of Oxford-street to Waverley will be, of necessity, very narrow; and, therefore, very inconvenient, not to say dangerous, to carriages. I would, suggest,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-morrow (Friday) a deputation consisting of the committee for procuring the construction of a railway from the deep waters of Port Jackson direct through Illawarra (via George's River and Coal Cliff)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An influential meeting, convened by the Mayor of Ryde, was held last evening in St. Ann's Hall. Ryde, to take into consideration the necessity of a tramway from Sydney across to Pyrmont and Balmain,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another dreadful railway disaster has been added to the melancholy scries of fatalities which have darkened the domestic annals of tha past two months. Nearly all the previous accidents occurred in the northern portion of our…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—I would beg sufficient space in your valuable columns to draw the attention of the Government to the advisablcness of resuming that portion of land at the corner of Park Road and the Old South Head Road, and adjoining…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early on Monday morning, September 13, a party of platelayers working on the London and North-Western Railway, between the Watford and Bushey stations, found, lying near the metals of the down line, a parcel containing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A deputation waited on the Hon. the Minister for Public Works, this morning, to present a memorial from a committee formed for the construction of a railway from the deep waters of Port Jackson direct…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This morning about 8 o'clock, a man named Frederick Donkin, living in Goodlet-street, whilst at work in the station yard at Redfern, had the misfortune to get his right hand crushed between the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,--The smalls of this suburb are sickening, and the letters of "A Resident" and "A Growl form the Globe" are from sufferers who are desirons of pure air and rapid communication, in which I join; but I…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I wish some one of our disinterested and philanthropie hon. members of Parliament would take up the case of the read-side publican. I maintain the charging the sum of £30 per annum to the road-side publican for a…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →THE deputation which waited upon the MINISTER FOR Works yesterday morning, urging the claims of the Illawarra district, and praying for the construction of a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A numerous and influential deputation waited upon the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works, yesterday, for the purpose of urging upon the Government the claims of the Illawarra district, and praying for the construction of a…
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