Accident on the First Zigzag. a Goods Train goes over the Embankmentl. Narrow Escape of the Mail Train. Carelessness of Navvies. Prompt Action of the Railway Authorities at Penrith
National Advocate · Thursday 17 October 1889 · page 3
This morning early an accident, which fortunately was not attended with any very serious consequences, occurred on the western line at Lapstone, Hill on the First Zigzag. For…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Items. the Rockley Isabella River Road. Letter from the Under-Secretary of Public Works to Mr. W. P. Crick, M.L.A.
National Advocate · Thursday 17 October 1889 · page 2
We are furnished with a copy of a letter written from the Department of Public Works to Mr. Crick member for West Macquarie. Department of Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway
Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1889 · page 2
The meeting held on Tuesday night last was certainly a move in the right direction, and the number of those who attended on such short notice, and the representative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trans-Continental Railway
National Advocate · Saturday 19 October 1889 · page 3
A parliamentary party has left for Anglepole to inspect the work on the Trans-continental railway. Anglepole which is the present terminns of the line which will eventually…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident
National Advocate · Saturday 19 October 1889 · page 3
A goods train at Seymour yesterday received the signal to start and the engine was put in motion, but turned into a siding where the locomotive and three trucks were thrown down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accident
National Advocate · Wednesday 23 October 1889 · page 3
At West Maitland a young man named Henry O'Brien was seriously injured by falling out of a railway train while on journey through East Maitland on Wednesday last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By Telegraph. Another Railway Slaughter
National Advocate · Friday 25 October 1889 · page 3
An inquest was held yesterday on the body of David Walters, who was terribly mutilated on the railway near Goulburn. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir Henry Parses' Views on the Federal Council, and a Uniform Railway Guage
National Advocate · Friday 25 October 1889 · page 3
A most important interview with the Premier of New South Wales took place at Brisbane on Tuesday. The interviewer said :" It is believed here,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Molong-Parkes-Forbes Railway
Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 26 October 1889 · page 1
A meeting was held in the Town Hall, Molong, on Tuesday last, to make arrangements for the collection of evidence, pending the visit of the Public Works Sectional…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Australia. Railway Matters in South Australia. Adelaide
National Advocate · Tuesday 29 October 1889 · page 3
It is considered probable that the Opposition will table an adverse motion in the Assembly over the proposal of the Government to conserve the Barrier trade with South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Increase of the Wages of Railway Hands
National Advocate · Thursday 31 October 1889 · page 3
The London and North Western 'Railway Company have increased the wages of their drivers and firemen by 3s. per week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Contract. Hobart
National Advocate · Friday 1 November 1889 · page 3
The tender of T. A. Reynolds and Co. for the construction of a railway from Strahan to Mount Zeehan, for £104,815, was accepted subject to certain conditions suggested by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Question
Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 2 November 1889 · page 2
FROM No. 52 of Hansard, recently to hand, we learn that during the debate on the Molong Parkes Forbes extension. Mr. Bruce Smith quoted, from the report of Mr. J. B. Thompson…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tasmanian Railways
National Advocate · Wednesday 6 November 1889 · page 3
Mr. Speight, the Victorian Chief Commissioner for Railways, has been on an official visit to Tasmania to advise the Government respecting the purchase of the main line of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robbery in the Train
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Thursday 7 November 1889 · page 3
At the Orange Police Court on Saturday, George Thomas Surce was charged with stealing a gold locket and watch-chain, the property of Charles Malley, of Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Lewis Ponds Road. Some Valuable Suggestions
Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 2
Alderman Holiday, in his place in the Council on Wednesday, introduced a subject which has a most important bearing upon the City of the Plains and its business relationship with the flourishing mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway to the Gaves Through Oberon
National Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1889 · page 2
"Department of Public Works, Sydney, 3rd November, 1889. Dear Sir,—With reference yo your interview of this morning, when you urged the necessity for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire in a Railway Truck
National Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1889 · page 3
A truck laden with wool, attached to a goods train at Albury station, was found to be on fire yesterday, but fortunately little damage was done…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Keppel Street Bridge. (To the Editor of the "National Advocate.")
National Advocate · Thursday 14 November 1889 · page 3
SIR,—Allow me, through your columns, to cull the attention of our Municipal Fathers to the dangerous state oF the bridge over Jordan Creek in Keppel-street. The left-hand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vespernalities. a Hint to the Railway Commissioners
National Advocate · Thursday 14 November 1889 · page 2
The railway goods' train guards have a grievance which they should have removed, and the sooner the better. To the majority of the trains they are compelled to work upon is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →