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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1864

10 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Fancies. the Old Bridge

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 24 February 1864 · page 2

As the good city of Newcastle, in the year, of grane one thousand eight hundred an sixty-four, is too young to boast of any traditional spectres, or haunted places, and…

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Maitland and Morpeth Railway

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 12 March 1864 · page 2

"CONFUSION worse confounded" appears to us the most appropriate description that can be given of a meeting hold at Morpeth on Monday evening last, for the purpose of…

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Friday, April. 22. (Before the Police Magistratiam Gibbs, a brickbane Lake Macquqrie Road

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 23 April 1864 · page 1

CHARGE OF UP, on Warrant charged before the maker with committing an aggravated assault upon us wife, on the 20th instant. The wife, a respectable looking wom a, deposed that, on Tuesday,…

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Opening of the Morpeth Railway

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 4 May 1864 · page 3

The all but stereotyped term " a success," which has of late years been applied to every well-regulated undertaking, public or private, can hardly "be accepted as the most suitable expression…

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Bushranging on the Orange Road

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 29 June 1864 · page 4

Though our district has for months enjoyed an immunity from the raids of bushrangers, our highways appear doomed to become again the theatre of their…

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Hexham Road

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 3 September 1864 · page 2

An adjourned meeting wns held at Mr. J. Hannelly, on Thursday evening, the 25th instant, at 7 p.m., in accordance with an advertisement to that effect. The chair was resumed by Mr. R. Fenwick,…

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The Railway Stores

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 24 September 1864 · page 2

COMPLAINTS have reached us that the stores belonging to the railway, or those for transmission to the interior or coastwise, are no properly protected, acting as a bait for…

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Proposed Railway Line From Muswellbrook to Mudgee

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 9 November 1864 · page 4

THE following respecting the above line, has been forwarded from P. D. Brown, Esq., to the Engineer-in-chief for Railways:— Singleton, 19th May, 1862…

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Railway Extension

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 9 November 1864 · page 2

It will be seen in another column that surveys have been made from Muswell-brook to Mudgee, and the engineering, difficulties encountered are not of a nature…

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A Great Engineering Peat in Connection with Railways

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Thursday 22 December 1864 · page 4

PORT OF SANTOS.—Called by my duties the other day to this small hat active seaport, I was fortunate in having the opportunity of seeing the first experiments in…

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