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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
40 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 2
To the Editor of the Nautical Magazine—Six You may have remarked how many collisions have occurred from a misuse of the role about tho port helm—how many disasters of this kind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The progress of the Morpeth railway extension has been so "melancholy" and "slow," that we are disposed to think that it has not been only-unfriended, but has also been the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—A district represented by men, who would roast their neighbour's fowl house to cook their own egg, can hardly be expected to study the interests of their constituents; but the constituents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We are glad to be in a position to state that our surmises with respect to the collision on the Wallsend line, briefly reported in our last issue, turned out to bo correct, the accident,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last evening, about eighteen minutes to 8 o'clock, an accident of a very terrible character occurred at the Newtown railway station. A goods train proceeding up country was shunted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The main thorough fare "between the town of .Newcastle and Maitland two ,of the largest 'ia the colony has long'been in a chronic state of disrepair. Year after year, since the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of owners' of property in the above localities was held at the Royal Hotel, Blane street, last evening, to receive the report of the. committee appointed to collect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good roads are sure indications of civiliza-tion in every country and wherever the pub-lic thoroughfares are neglected the romissness is either attributed to semibarbarism or to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A railway without cuttings embankment tunnels, viaducts, or bridges no matter how hilly the country to be traversed. Such is the definition given by Herapath's Journal of an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR It appears Unit some progress has at length been effected towards the erection of thin bridge. From what I can hear, Dr, Brookes has secured one step in progress towards the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting of the property owners of Bullock Island, was held at the Post Olfice Hotel, Blane-street, on Saturday evening, to receive the report of Dr. Brookes' recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About three years ago, the first iron, cylinder of the above bridge was laid by the then Minister for, Works, Mr. Byrnes, in the pre-sence of the mayor and aldermen of west…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The officers of the Erie Railway give the following account of the accident at West Hope. The through freight train hound west backed on the switch to get out of the way of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →" A railway without cuttings, embank-ments, tunnels, viaducts, or bridges, no matter how hilly the country to be traversed "-such is the definition given by Herepath'a Journal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For more reasons than one, it is absolutely necessary that both the "Western and Northern Railways should be pushed ahead with as little delay as possible, in order to reach the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday was a day long to be remembered , in the annals of Maitland -the occasion being the opening, for public traffic, of the West Maitland Bridge, by the Hon. the Premier,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An extraordinary account of a dispute between the Erie and Albany railway companies which led to a regular battle, is thus describe by the New York Times of the 12th last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR- After a lapse of some two year I see the late train movement has at length assumed something approaching a tangible format least, so far as it goes, but which, in my humble opinion, is not half far enough,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Monday, while. Dr. Paterson was returning from a professional visit to a person in the eastern portion of Logic parish, he was met by a messenger who requested him to see…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A shocking suicide, says the Melbourne Leader of the 13th instant, occurred on Monday afternoon, on the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Rail way, about sixty yards on the…
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