The Late Railway Accident in Sydney
The City Coroner held an inquest at his office, Hyde Park, on Tuesday forenoon, on the body of a man named Anthony Maguire, lying dead at the Sydney Infirmary…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1875
127 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 7
Sensational Suicide from Clifton Suspension Bridge
On Monday afternoon, a girl, named Lucy Emma Durrant, aged 20, in service at Elgin Park, Clifton, and belonging to Stowmarket, Suffolk, after some unpleasantness about a…
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On Saturday night a collision occurred at Pontymister, near Newport, between an up passenger train and a Monmouthshire goods train. The accident is said to have…
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WE have, on numerous occasions, received and heard complaints about the dirty railway carriages in which passengers to and from Wallsend are compelled to travel in, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tasmanian Items. [?]Erious Accident on the Main Line Railway Tasmanian
An accident occurred on the railway line, far Richmond, yesterday forenoon January by which several men were injured at nine o'clock, a material train. consisting…
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The Toowoomba correspondent of the Ipswich Observer supplies the following particulars of this extraordinary accident:— The Warwick train started from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Station Accommodation for Anvil Creek and Greta
SINCE I had the honour of representing the Advocate in these parts, I have availed myself of every conceivable opportunity of agitating, by word and pen, the erection…
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We have much pleasure in directing attention to the following letter, stating that the Municipal Council of Wallsend has been appointed trustees for the expenditure of £250, for the erection of a…
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AN inquest was held on Monday, at Mr. R. Johnsen's Commercial. Hotel, Wallsend, before Mr. F. J Shaw, (district coroner), on the body of Richard Groves, who died on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Between Lambton and Newcastle
We would draw the attention of our readers to a letter signed "Traveller," which appears in another column. If this road is shut up from the public for want of being proclaimed, we consider that steps ought to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Search for Coal at Bishop's Bridge
For some time past a small party has been at work in the neighbourhood of Bishop's Bridge prospecting for coal. A report was current in Maitland that a very thick seam of coal had been discovered; but we…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accommodation to Wallsend. Probable Stoppage of the Passenger and Goods Traffic. Deputation to the Government
FOR some months past, we understand, negociations have passed between the Wallsend Coal Company and the late Government, respecting the passenger train traffic to and…
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The Murrurundi correspondent of the Mercury says:—Mr. Wakeford is fast pushing ahead; too fast indeed for many of us In twelve months Murrurundi will be all but a deserted township. So much has property…
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WE have, on several occasions, alluded in strong and condemnatory terms to the disgraceful state of the main road between Newcastle and Wallsend, but more particularly…
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On Friday last a deputation waited upon the Colonial Secretary and Minister for Works urging the Government to place a sum of money on the estimates to construct a line of railway between Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Illawarra Railway Scheme
A FEW DAYS back a deputation waited upon the Government, with reference to a new pet idea of certain interested capitalists, to have a railway constructed between Sydney and…
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WE are pleased to see that the people of Newcastle have at last deterermined to be up and doing, and we hope the agitation will not, as heretofore, end with the public meeting to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Accident on the Wallsend Railway Line. Two Children Run Over by the Wallsend Passenger Train and Terribly Injured
ON Wednesday afternoon last one of the most painful and lamentable accidents that it has ever been our lot to witness occurred on the Wallsend line, near the White Gates, about…
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The meeting announced to take place at the Court House, Newcastle, on Wednesday evening last, to protest against the erection of a railway to Wollongong (as alluded to in our editorial columns in last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Illawarra Railway Scheme, and Harbour Requirements
THE meeting that should have been held in Newcastle on Friday evening last, of parties interested in the welfare of the port of Newcastle, and to protest against the Illawarra…
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