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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
43 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 3
The melancholy accident to young King, recorded in Wednesday Chronicle, has terminated, fatally—a result which was feared from the first. As intimated in our notice on Wednesday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Richard Pearce appeared to answer the charge of allowing his horses to stray on the G. N. Railway. Mr. Bewick proved the charge. The defendant said the gates were left open, and there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The most serious railway collision that has lately happened on our railways, occurred this morning, at about nine o'clock, at the Newtown Railway Station. The passenger train, due in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One of those distressing and terrible casualties, occurring from time to time on railways— which seem, in some inexplicable manner, suddenly to defeat every wise precaution that can be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The verdict of manslaughter returned by the coroner the driver of the goods train and the station-master at Petersham in consequence of the carelessness displayed by them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →James Darcey, labourer, pleaded guilty to having assaulted one James Barrack, a railway porter at Newcastle, when in the execution of his duty on the 4th instant. He was sentenced to be imprisoned in Maitland gaol for two months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robert Blair and James Wotherspoon, miners, were each fined 5s. and 5s. 6d. costs for travelling in a railway carriage between Newcastle and [?] without a ticket…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[We received the following important telegram from our Sydney telegraphic agents yesterday evening, but owing to a great pressure of business in the preparation of a heavy mail supplement-alluded to elsewhere..we were unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We regret to hear there is some reason to fear that an attempt will be mode by a number of men employed on the Great Western Railway extension to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Thursday afternoon last there was hud upon the table of the Legislative Assembly, an official report, written by Mr. J. H. Thomas, tho Engineer for existing lines of railways in this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir Having read in your issue of the 22nd instant some remarks from your Wallsend correspondent regarding the state of our roads and also commenting on the negligent manner in which the trustee supposed to look…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In its issue of Saturday last our contemporary, the Sydney Morning Herald, waxes facetiously jubliant over tho fact that seventeen miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—I have been often urged by many of the inhabitants of Hexhan and others who are completed to travel on the Newcastle and Maitland Road, to call a meeting for consultation how best to bring under the notice of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday evening last, about a dozen persona assembled in the Court-house, in connection with the movement for putting the road from Newcastle to Lambton and Wallsend in a state…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir It in now somewhat over three months since great reduction in the rate of carriage, upon the up journey to Sydney, was made upon produce and other I items carried by [?] on the Southern and Western lines,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir [?] this is an age of wonders, and I think the greatest one extant after the carthquake, is the generous impulse which has so suddenly seized on the good folks of Newcastle, respecting the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The American journals describe a disastrous accident on the Erie Railway. Carr's Rock is 16 miles from Port Jervis, and overhangs a tributary of the Delaware. The cliff itself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Co. eat it off. my daughter dear, Though [?]ful if they be, and sweetly bring the s[?] here, Th[?] I she dead [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are favoured by the H. R. N. S. N. Company with notes of a deputation of Thursday on these subjects to the Honorable the Minister for Public Worts, on the part of th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR - Following up a letter which I observe in your issue in reference to railway fares, there is another "dodge" in vogue on this Northern Line, and one which I took upon as unjust and incomprehensible - it is the…
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