Serious Railway Accident
About 3 a.m. on Monday the engine of the mixed mail train to Cooma ran off the line and fell over an embankment near Goulburn. The train was travelling at a high rate of speed, and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1896
389 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 20
The Railway to Walgett
Our Rylstone correspondent writes:—The Walgett railway extension is becoming a profound political problem, and I strongly recommend some of those in charge of the project to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New Railway Engines
THE Railway Commissioners, in their last annual report, mentioned the fact that orders had been given for the construction of a new class of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accident on the Cessnock Road
A man named Thomas O'Neill, 32 years of age, a labourer, residing at Cessnock, met with a terribly sudden death on Saturday night through colliding with a telegraph post at Mother Duff's Hill, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Ambulance Corps
Some few months ago the Railway Medical officer, Dr. Woodward, conducted examinations at the various branches of the Ambulance Corps on the Northern line for the purpose of selecting those…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed on the Railway
A man named Charles Wilson, a regpicker, was killed near Redfern railway station this morning by a ballast train…
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A deputation to-day interviewed the Minister of Works find urged that sixteen timber for the supply of sleepers required for the Mores Railway, also for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Ambulance Corps
Examinations for prizes are heldannually in connection with the Railway and Tramway Ambulance Corps, when £100 are distributed. This year at the recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Accident on Cessnock Road
A man named Thomas O'Neill, 32 years of ago, a labourer, residing at Cessnock, met with a terribly sudden death on Saturday night through colliding with a telegraph post at Mother Duff's Hill, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Nundle to Quirindi Road Conference
On Wednesday afternoon lust the large Wesleyan Hall at Wallabadah was well filled by persons desirous of hearing the views of the various delegates. Mr. R. H. Levien, M.L.A. for Quirindi…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Fatal Tram Accident
An inquest opened to-day in circumstance attending the death of Christian Schwerdtzmann, who was fatally injured three weeks ago through being run over by a tram, of which he was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Ambulance Corps
Some few months ago the Railway Medical Officer, Dr. Woodward, conducted examinations at the various branches of the Ambulance Corps on the Northern line for the purpose of selecting those…
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A deputation on Monday interviewed the Minister of Works and urged that sixteen timber getters should be allowed to tender for the supply of sleepers required for the Moree Railway, also for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Railway Commissioner
The Railway Commissioner arrived in Singleton on their tour of inspection of the Northern Railway System about 8 o'clock on Thursday evening and remained for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Departing Railway Official
On Saturday afternoon last the employes of the Morpeth branch of the Railway Department, met at the Clerk's office, Morpeth, for the purpose of presenting Mr. Herbert Swan…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Perth. a Fatal Railway Accident
The accident on the Eastern Railway proves less disastrous than anticipated. It appears a mixed train was shunted on the siding at Leenmill Station to let a Perth bound train pass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Tram Accident. a Woman Killed. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
A WOMAN, whose name was for some time unknown, fell from a tram between Moncur and Ocean streets, Woolahra, yesterday. The tram at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway for Uganda
The House of Commons has voted three million sterling for the construction of a railway in Uganda…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways in German Mast Africa
The German Reichastag will be asked during the autumn session for funds for the construction of railways to the coast of German East Africa from Lakes Tanganyiki and Victoria Nyanza…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Railway Accident. Perth
News has been received at Perth of a terrible railway accident near Smith's Mill, twenty miles from the city, on the Great Eastern Rail way. Only the moat meagre particulars have been received, but it…
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