Tram Conductors' Troubles
The appeals of eight tram conductors recently dismissed from the service for a breach of the regulations were taken into consideration by the Railway Commissioners yesterday. The whole of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1896
389 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 20
To-day's Telegrams. Sydney. Defrauding the Railway Department
The police at the instance of the Railway Department have recently taken action regarding persons who ply an unauthorised trade in railway tickets in the city and country towns. The first…
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A passenger train was wrecked on the New York Central Railroad, two portions being killed and 10 seriously injured. The disaster was caused by…
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Not altogether because of its presumed demerits, but chiefly because the Victorian Government has no backbone, the proposal before the Assembly to manage the railways…
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A tram crashed into a dray ia Oxford-street this morning, turning it completely over. The driver, John Brodie, was crushed underneath, and when extricated was found to have sustained a severe…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Return Railway Tickets. An Illegal Sale. [By Telegraph] Sydney
T. F. FIRKINS, of King-street, was to-day fined £5 and costs for selling return halves of railway tickets to the country at about half the price of…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest on the body of the Alfred Willis, who was run over and shockingly mangled by a tram in Oxford-street on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Heat and Railway Fares
A deputation consisting of members of Parliament representing the Western and North-western Electorates waited on the Commissioners of Railways to-day and urged that in view of the extreme…
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News reached here to-day that a passenger train, due at one o'clock this afternoon, has boon derailed at Linden…
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News reached Lawson to-day [?] passenger train, due at 1 o'clock [?] been derailed at Linden Ful[?] ticulars are not to hand, but no [?]…
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THE railway lines being run on purely business principles by the Commissoners, it follows that they are run in every way to suit the public…
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By an advertisement in another column it will be seen that the Hallway Commissioners have made special arrangemente for enabling people at a very moderate cost to…
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The warm afternoon sun looks down upon a scene of rugged grandeur. The view is picturesque and awe-inspiring. A rough, uneven, rocky road winds in a semi-circle about the base…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bathurst. Illegally Selling Railway Tickets
At the police court this morning Michael Meaney, Louis Hahn, John Weine, George Wonsell, and A. E. Ashworth were each charged with having illegally trafficked in railway tickets, and a…
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A supplement to Government Gazette of Saturday notifies that it has been deemed expedient to open and mike the roads mentioned, namely:—Road, with deviations, from Eecleston, at north boundary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Railway Sensation. Leap form a Train
JANE BROWN, aged 19, the daughter of a Launceston grocer, who was travelling in a Tasmanian railway compartment with Mr Davidson, a…
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M. Freulon, a civil engineer belonging to the staff of the P.L.M Railway, was called on business from Paris to Nancy on Monday, Nov 24th…
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Mr. E. D. Kebblewhite, Mayor of Mayor of Morpeth, has kindly handed to us for publication the following correspondence received by him from the Hon. J. N. Brunker, in reference to the erection of a bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Railway Ticket Cases More Convictions. [By Telegraph.] Bathurst
AT the police court to-day, five persons were fined £5 each, and costs, for illegally trafficking in railway tickets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Concession. Cheap Fakes From West Maitland to Newcastle
A deputation of residents of West Maitland was introduced to the Railway Commissioners this morning by Mr. Gillies, M.P., in order to urge that excursion tickets should be issued from West…
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