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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
19 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers
The other night, a most disgraceful act was perpetrated on the South Wales branch of the Great Western Railway. It appears that the down goods train, which is due at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the death of George Hudson, we have lost a notability whose life had been as chequered as that of any man living. At the height of his career he was known as "The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the 30th ultimo, Mr. G. A. Lloyd, the member for Newcastle, addressed the following letter to the Sydney Morning Herald, relative to a paragraph appearing in that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the 30th ultimo, Mr. G. A. Lloyd, the member for Newcastle, addressed the following letter to the Sydney Morning Herald, relative to a paragraph appearing in that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Northern line has been so far completed as to allow of its being opened to Murrurundi, to which point, contracts have been let. The surveys have been proceeded, with towards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Saturday morning, June 1st, the town was thrown into a state of excitement through the occurrence of a most melancholy accident, which resulted in the death of a labourer on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A correspondent of the Daily News quotes from the Correspondencia, the editor of which was a passenger in the train attacked by brigands on Saturday night (March 29), the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAVING single-handed rushed into the construction of a line of telegraph across the Australian continent, and committed themselves to a vast original outlay of capital, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TH[?]ion taken by the residents at Inverell, in [?]ting for an extension of the Northern Railway from Murrurundi to Tamworth, and subsequently to Inverell, is a movement that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the 3rd of July, 1850, or twenty-two years ago yesterday (says the Herald) Mrs. Keith Stewart, the daughter of Sir Charles Fitzroy, the Governor of New South Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The opening of railway communication between New England and the Clarence River, in the North, and between the Monaro district and Twofold Bay, in the South, has now…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SIR—The conduct of Mr. J. Hannell, M.P. for Northumberland, in reference to Bullock Island Bridge, for several years past, has been such as could searcely be paralleled in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The San Antonio (Texas) Herald of the 3rd inst., contains the following story:—In our Wednesday's issue, we referred to the rumour of a train being captured by Indians, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The project (says the Illawarra Mercury) that we have been advocating for some years past for the formation of a cheap line of railway between the Illawarra district and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Writing to the Birmingham Gazette, "An Old London Sub-Editor" advances a theory with respect to the Waterloo Bridge Mystery, which is scarcely less startling than…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—I beg the favour of a little of your space in order to draw the attention of our member Mr. Hannell, to the great injustice that the Hamilton Municipality is suffering from the way…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Wednesday morning, at thirteen minutes past eight o'clock, a terrible railway accident happened upon the Caledonian Railway, at Kirtle bridge station, about seventeen miles north…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An inquest has just been held on the body of Alice Blanche Oswald, aged about twenty years, who committed suicide last week in the Thames, by throwing herself from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of about forty gentlemen was held in the Council Chamber, Grafton, on Thursday afternoon, to consider what best could be done to aid the Government scheme…
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