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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1866

5 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

The Extension of the Morpeth Railway

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 7 March 1866 · page 3

Last Wednesday morning, a deputation, consisting of James Campbell, Esq., M L A., Benjamin Lec, Esq., M.L.A., E. C. Close, jun., Esq., and J. B. It. Robertson, Esq…

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Poet's Corner. Only a Tramp

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 2 May 1866 · page 4

Only a tramp, squalid and vile, Smoking his pipe on a roadside stile. Soil'd and sullied without and within By many a sorrow and many a sin…

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Proposed Change of Railway Rates

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 6 June 1866 · page 4

A revised table of rates to be charged on the public railways has just been sanctioned by the Executive Council. It was intended originally that they should have come into…

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Public Meeting. a Railway Station for the Borehole

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 28 July 1866 · page 2

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Pit Town, Borehole, was held at Mr. Cameron, [?] Queens Arms, on Tuesday evening last, at half-past eight o'clock, for the purpose of…

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The Threatened Reduction of Wages of Gangers on the G. N. Railway

The Newcastle Chronicle · Saturday 20 October 1866 · page 3

We are credibly informed that, on Saturday last, all the gangers on the G. N. Railway received notice, that a " reduction of their wages of one shilling per day would take place, the…

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