Terrible Railway Disaster
ONE of the most terrible railway accidents which it has been our painful duty to chronicle occuered on the Homebush Waratah railway line yesterday afternoon…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1887
129 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 3 of 7
Railway Collision on the Illawarra Line. Ballast and Coal Trains Collide
Considerable excitement was caused in town on Thursday when it became known that the contractors' engine, "Gladstone," and the Mount Pleasant Coal Company's engine, "Illawarra No…
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Among the incidents connected with this terrible catastrophe special mention must be made of the conduct of Patrick Proctor, porter and pointsman at Peat's Ferry station. It was his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Effects Have Been Wonderful. "Ilford Road Dispensary, Dukinfield, May 3rd, 1884
"Dear Sir,—I am happy to inform you that the sale of your Syrup and Pills increases here continually. Several of my customers speak of having derived more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Effects Have Been Wonderful. "Ilford Road Dispensary, Duckenfield. May 3rd. 1184
Dear Sir.—I am happy to inform you that the sale of your Syrup and Pills increases here continually. Several of my customers speak of having derived more benefit from the use of…
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CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused in town on Thursday when it became known that the contractor's engine. "Gladstone," and the Mount Pleasant Coal Company's…
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THE fireman, Pye, is now in a fair way of recovery. At an interview on Friday he stated that the train had proceeded a mile and a half down the incline before the…
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THE Queen's Jubilee Day was commemorated in disaster as well as demonstration. An excursion train conveying some 250 passengers to Peat's Ferry became…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Rates. (To the Editor of the Illawarra Mercury.)
SIR,—Kindly allow me space in your columus for a few remarks concerning the high rates of fares charged by Government upon the recently-opened extension of the Illawarra railway. Upon…
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THE Queen's Jubilee brought to our northern neighbours at Wollongong their long-looked fur and well won prize—the Illawarra Railway. There could…
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AT the inquest on the body of William Henry Hankin, who died of injuries received in connection with the railway disaster at the Hawkesbury on the 21st ultimo, Alfred…
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AT the inquest on Friday William Holme deposed I was at Peat's Ferry when the accident happened, and was standing near the points when the train passed. I heard it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Kiama-shoalhaven Railway. the Minister for Works Interviewed. Sydney
Mr. Fraser Martin, M.P., for Shoalhaven, the Hon. Captain Charles, M.L.C., and Mr. John M'Lean, of the Shoalhaven Telegraph, waited on the Minister for Works at 11 a.m…
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A large and influential public meeting to protest against the Government proposal to erect the railway station at the Public Cemetery, a mile outside the town of Kiama, was held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Effects Have Been Wonderful. "Ilford Road Dispensary, Dukinfloid, May 3rd, 1884
"Dear Sir,—I am happy to inform you that the sale of your Syrup and Pills increases here continually. Several of my customers speak of having derived more…
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A LAROE, important, and representative meeting was held at the Temperance Hall on Thursday evening last, to consider the action of the Government, in connection…
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By the courtesy of Mr. Scarlett, the acting station master at Wollongong, and head of the traffic department in Illawarra, we are enabled to give the following particulars of the working of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Captain Charles, M.L.A., and the Kiama Railway. to the Editor of the Kiama Independent
SIR,—I have had neither time nor inclination to peruse all that was spoken at or put through the filter of well-applied reportorial talent written of the proceedings at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Land Resumption Arbitration Case. Capt. Charles's Claim, £8,740 14s. 6d. Gov. Assessment, £1,693 5s. 6d
THE arbitration case in which the Hon. Samuel Charles claimed the amount of £8,740 14s 6d in respect to the resumption for the South Coast Railway of a portion of his estate at…
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HE report of the Board of Enquiry states that the train was amply provided with brake power. The hand-brake power alone was more than sufficient to admit of the…
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