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The Railway System of New South Wales
Railways and rivers are the two great channels of inland intercommunication available for a people's enterprise. Some countries are, fortunately for themselves, well favored by the endowment of Nature with one of these aids of development. Australia has not been so fortunate. Our water-courses, with the exception of a few, are neither navigable nor large, and even such as we have are only available under certain circumstances. It is some evidence of our enterprise and determination as a people that, since the sod of the first railway was turned in Australia, a little over 40 years ago, we have never relaxed in our persistent efforts to link all parts of the eastern side of the continent together with iron bands.
The Railway System of New South Wales
Railways and rivers are the two great channels of inland intercommunication available for a people's enterprise. Some countries are, fortunately for themselves, well favored by the endowment of Nature with one of these aids of development. Australia has not been so fortunate. Our water-courses, with the exception of a few, are neither navigable nor large, and even such as we have are only available under certain circumstances. It is some evidence of our enterprise and determination as a people that, since the sod of the first railway was turned in Australia, a little over 40 years ago, we have never relaxed in our persistent efforts to link all parts of the eastern side of the continent together with iron bands.
The Railway System of New South Wales
Birrell, Thomas Fletcher (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 29 ; 326-356
2021-01-01
311893-01-01 pages
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