Railway Rates for Wheat
JUST before going to press this evening we (Tamworth News) received from Messrs. Levien and Dowel, Ms.L.A., the following telegram — "We interviewed…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1888
148 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 8
Killed by a Tram
On Sunday afternoon a lad named John Halliday, aged 6 years, in crossing the tram line in the centre at Belmore Park, was knocked down and run over by a…
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During a dense fog a railway collision occurred on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway near Burnley. The guard of one of the trains was killed…
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THE Grafton Examiner of Tuesday last contains a sensible article on the expressed determination of the Government to connect Grafton, amongst other seaboard towns, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Story. The Phantom Train
SOME years ago I held a post as flagman on a railway line in America. One night we started out from the town of Belton with the through freight, and it…
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The Commissioner for Railways has decided that all exhibits for the forthcoming centenary agricultural show shall be carried over the railways of the colony free,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How to Train a Canary
SET the cage on a table near where you wish to sit. After a little conference with the bird, introduce a finger between the wires near the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Produce Rates to Sydney
THE following letter has been handed to us for publication:--"Department of Railways, Sydney, 16th January, 1888. Sir--Referring again to your representations of the disability under which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forged Tram Tickets
Very searching enquiries show that the reported forgery of 80,000 tram tickets is without foundation…
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'Yes, sir! the boy there, though but five years old and not knowing a dash from a dot stands upon the company's pay-roll as telegraphic-operator, at fifty dollars per…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a Western Railway Depot
"Whenever I feel blue and disheartened," said a struggling attorney recently, I always go to the depot and watch the gentlemanly and sauve man in blue who has charge there…
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There was a serious railway collision this morning. The goods express, which left Sydney at 4.40 a.m., ran into a "pick up" goods train near Granville…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mushroom Culture in a Railway Tunnel
There is in Edinburgh an unused railway tunnel, which has been taken over by a Scottish company for the cultivation of mushrooms. The mode of culture is thus described by E. Molyneaux in the…
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ON account of numerous complaints received at this office through the irregular manner in which the mail train has been running of late, we addressed a letter on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Latest. Sydney, Thursday Night. [Lodged 6; received 7.45.] Railway Traffic
With regard to the changing of the station the cabinet has decided that the through trains are to run into Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Tramp's Hands
ONE of the essential points of success in my profession, said a dilapidated old tramp who was talking to a reporter, is to keep the hands…
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It is understood that the Government have several important railway proposals to bring forward during the present session of Parliament, and that the expense…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glen Innes Police Court. (Before the P.m.) Tuesday, February 28. Placing Obstructions on the Railway Line
CHARLES and Emily Carroll were charged with having placed stones on the Great Northern railway line near Glen Innes, to the danger of persons travelling on the said line…
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A boiler maker named Smith, a foreman on the Government railways, Eveleigh workshops, was killed on Saturday, while riding on the footway of an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Grafton-Tweed Railway. Grafton
RESOLUTIONS embodying the following extracts will be submitted at a public meeting to-night re the Grafton-Tweed railway, viz. :--"That the Government has prompted Mr. Whitton to take…
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