Great Railway Accident Near Melbourne. Two Trains Collided. Loss of Life. Melbourne
The Yass Courier · Friday 4 April 1884 · page 2
A terrible railway accident happened yes terday at the crossing on the Geelong line, near the Little River. A passenger train from Ballaral to Melbourne and a goods train from…
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Goulburn Herald · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 4
It is estimated that the railways of New South Wales last year earned equal to 4 per cent. on capital expenditure, which is a falling off on the estimate for some previous years,…
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Southern Argus · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 2
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post
A serious accident occurred on Monday evening to the passenger train from Ballarat and Geelong for Melbourne, between the little River and the Werribee Stations. The train ran into a goods train,…
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Goulburn Herald · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 3
INFORMATION reached Spencer-street station, Melbourne about 10o'clock on Wednesday evening that a shocking accident had happened on the Geelong line, by which a number of passengers had been…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 4
MR. A. F. BARDSHAW, sporting editor of the Federal Australian, was in the train, and gives the following account of the accident:—We were returning from tile Casterton races. All went well…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 April 1884 · page 2
WE direct attention to the advertisement, which appears in another column, giving particulars of the running of trains for the holidays. It gives the times of arrival and departure of several special…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 April 1884 · page 4
FULLER enquiry into the railway collision which occurred near the Little River on Wednesday night, and of which we published detailed particulars in our second…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 8 April 1884 · page 4
The little rural township of Sunbury was thrown into a state of unwonted excitement yesterday by the railway accident which occurred there very early in…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 April 1884 · page 4
THAT portion of the above live, which is already being worked, from Goulburn to Targo, is commanding a deal more traffic than was at first anticipated, and the same is weekly improving. The trial…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 8 April 1884 · page 4
A PART of the Cooma line at a spot about nine miles from Goulburn was washed away by the late rain through the waters becoming dammed back in consequence of a culvert being blocked. The…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 April 1884 · page 2
ANOTHER strike has taken place at Glen Innes on Proudfoot's section of the railway line, the navvies, who have been getting 8s for eight hours, wanting an advance of 1s per diem. Mr. Proudfoot has…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 10 April 1884 · page 4
ACCORDING to a Braidwood telegram to the S. M. Herald there is something wrong in the Tarago line. The message is as follows:—On Sunday a train from Goulburn to Tarago had a narrow escape from…
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The Burrowa News · Friday 11 April 1884 · page 4
I halt [?] by the 7.10 [?] last night, [?] in spend a day or two in Melbourne for a [?], and little at po[?] to [?] any outing with [?]…
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The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 12 April 1884 · page 2
DURING his visit of inspection to the Western line, the Minister for Works informed a deputation that waited upon him at Blayney, that it was the intention of the…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 15 April 1884 · page 4
LAST Monday Mr. Shiell, the city coroner, held an inquiry, at the South Sydney morgue, into the circumstances surrounding the death of Charles Hare Atkinson,…
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The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 16 April 1884 · page 4
AT the end of two years’ service in the Indian country I was coming home on my first [?]urlo[?]gh. From time to time, as the train stopped, rumours reached us the troubles…
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Goulburn Herald · Thursday 17 April 1884 · page 2
The Easter holiday traffic at the Goulburn railway station has been pretty brisk, about equal to that of last year. The number of passenger tickets issued at this…
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The Burrowa News · Friday 18 April 1884 · page 3
THE coroner's inquiry into the cir[?] attending the [?] of the engine [?] Thomas C. [?] and Mrs. Ellan Johnson, who died from the effects…
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 6
Mr. A. Ryrie M.P. writes as fellow to the Manaro Mercury:—Sir—As tenders are now called for the construction of the line of railway from Bungendore to Micalago, I think it…
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