Railway Employees' Dinner at Goulburn
THE Goulburn Penny Post states that on Saturday, June 28th, the first annual dinner of the locomotive department of the Government Railways was held in the hall of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1878
188 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 10
Railway Extension in Victoria
THE following letter, published in the Stawell Chronicle, will give some idea of the progress which is being made in cutting the track for the railway through the mallee to…
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THE Brisbane Water correspondent of the Maitland Mercury of Saturday states:—The public mind here is at present much occupied with the proposal to have a railway line constructed across…
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ON Monday evening a rather serious accident occurred on the line near to the A. A. Co.'s Bridge. A train was engaged in shunting some loaded waggons on to the Government staiths…
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YESTERDAY morning, between eight and nine o'clock, an accident occurred at the New-comen-street crossing by which twenty-four sheep were killed. It appears a mob of…
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Mr. Eckford, M.L.A., introduced a deputation to-day consisting of several gentlemen drsirous of pressing on the attention of the Government the advantages of constructing…
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THE idea of a railroad from the Northern District to the Metropolis seems to be growing prevalent. On Wednesday last a deputation from the…
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ON Wednesday morning, at 10 o'clock, a deputation of gentlemen interested in the carrying out of the proposed line of railway from Sydney to Newcastle, via Gosford and…
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DURING the past few weeks considerable agitation has existed in the minds of residents in the Brisbane Water district, for fear their interests should be ignored in the event…
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ON Monday evening last the Hon. J. Sutherland, Minister for Works, Hon. J. Leary, Minister of Justice and Education, Hon. H. E. Cohen, Colonial Treasurer, and a large…
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THE Toowoomba Chronicle of Saturday says:—"The past week has shown how very little attention is paid to railway management. Since Tuesday last hardly a train has arrived…
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HAVING received a kind invitation from the Minister for Works to be present at the official opening of the railway to Wagga Wagga,—on Saturday last, in company…
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PERHAPS few towns in the interior of New South Wales have acquired a greater celebrity than North Wagga Its connection with the notorious…
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THE members of the various municipal councils of the district are awaking to the fact that the Government have a right to subsidise the large amount of money spent by…
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A PAINFUL casualty occurred about noon on Friday at the railway station to a man named Robert Kyle, aged thirty-three. Kyle was engaged unloading a railway goods van, and…
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A MEETING of the General Committee appointed to draw up a memorial to be submitted to the Government, and also to prepare resolutions to be submitted to a public…
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WHILE we are gratified at learning that the various Surburban Councils have, in the words of our Lambton correspondent, awoke to a knowledge…
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SIR,—Passing through the Junction, I noticed a very nice piece of road, which the Borough Council, I presume, call finished. The road, or that I refer to, is…
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ATTER a long period of inaction, the citizens of Newcastle have at last arisen to a sense of their political responsibility, and, perhaps, to a sense of the…
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THE following is the text of the memorial to be submitted to the citizens at a public meeting to be held on Monday next, at the Court House, Newcastle, at half-past seven, to…
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