The Cost of Road-making
The public are of course aware that various experiments in road-making are going on in Sydney. In George-street American asphalt have been used ihn King-street wooden blocks, with k[?]…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1881
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A Bad Road. RYLSTONE
The road from Rylstone to llford is in a in a most dangerous state. Three accidents have occurred in less than a week, one to the mailcoach. An indignation meeting is to be held…
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On Saturday morning, at the invitation of the Messrs. Hudson Brothers, "a number of gentlemen, principally engineers and others experienced in railway matters, assembled at the Redfern railway…
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On Saturday an interesting trial was made at the Redfern Railway Terminus with an automatic coupling apparatus— an ingenious invention for coupling railway trucks and other rolling stock. The experiment was conducted in the…
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Although a great many visitors to the Melbourne Exhibition have availed themselves of the facilities afforded by the opening of the railway for laud travelling, and thus escaped the horrors of sea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge Across Darling Harbour. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—From your report of a meeting in Thursday's Herald, the Ultime people seem to have been aroused from their apathy, and now desire to get a botter approach from Sydney…
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ON Tuesday evening, December 21, a collision look place at Leed6 Junction, about half a mile from Leeds. The accident (as reported by the MANCHESTER TIMES) occurred to the Midland…
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A deputation waited on the Secretary for Works this morning introduced by Mr. Badgery, M.L.A., with whom were Messrs. Tooth, Rutedge, Meyers, Holborrow, M.'sL.A., to urga the necessity of speed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Rates. To the Editor
sSIR,-In a letter to your journal on the 2nd instant I stated, in reference to the new rate-sheet coming into force on the 3rd February, that there were other reforms that might be made to advantage. I now…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Metropolitan District Court. Monday.—february 21. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) Manning V. Commissioner of Railways
An action to recover £200 for negligence, whereby the plaintiff sustained injury. Mr. Coonan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. C. B. Stephen, instructed by Mr. Williams, appealed for the defence Verdict for £55. The…
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The opening of the railway from Junee to Narandera will take place on the 28th, but there will be no formal ceremony. A train will leave Junee at 9.15 a.m., soon after the arrival of the down train…
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A deputation waited on the Secretary for Works yesterday morning, introduced by Mr. Badgery, M.L.A., with whom were Messrs. Tooth, Rutledge, Meyers, Holborrow, M.'sL.A., to urge the necessity of speed…
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A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Badgery, R. L. Tooth, Holborow, Myers, Ryrie, Rutledge, and Vaughan, Ms.L.A., and Mr. P. H. Osbor[?]e, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, for the purpose of urging upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Correspondence. How to Make 678 Miles of Railway. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--In the speech of Sir John Robertson at the opening of the Dubbo railway, he stated " that there were several railway lines in various stages of progress, making a total of 678 miles to be opened in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Woollahra Tramway. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--We are doomed once more to beg your help in our troubles. The tramway rails are laid down on the sleepers as far as St. Matthias' Church. As you state to-day, the work being so far done, we imagined…
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IT has often been observed that statistics are so very elastic that they can be adduced in an imposing array in favour of almost any hypothesis, and even in favour of…
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A amputation, consisting of the Mayor and aldermen of the borough of Glebe, waited on the Minister for Works to endeavour to induce the Government to take immediate steps to settle the…
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A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Sydney and aldermen Davies, Carter, Butcher, Dean, Hardie, Meeks, Wadsworth, and Chapman, waited on the Colonial Secretary by appointment this morning with…
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A deputation, consisting of several members of Parliament and of municipal suburban bodies, was introduced to Mr. Lackey, this morning, by Mr. Trickett, M.L.A., to urge on the notice of the…
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A deputation introduced by Mr. S. C. Brown, M.L.A. waited on the Secretary for Works, this morning, to call attention to the unsatisfactory state of the rates charged for carriage of coal, owing to an…
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