Means for Preventing Railway Accidents, or Modifying their Results
THE above subject has engaged the attention of the engineering world for many years, and the question became so important in England that in 1874,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1879
83 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 5
Correspondence. Brisbane Water Road. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—In your issue of Saturday last, 4th Jan., there appears a letter from Mr. 8. 8. Vale, professedly written to make the matter of the opening of the Newcastle and Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Stock
THE fine ship Drumpark, 1470 tons, Captain Bailey, which arrived in port on Saturday from Sydney, conveyed part of her original cargo from Sydney, viz., three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frightful Railway Accident
A FATAL accident occurred on the Stawell and Horseham railway on Saturday evening. A selector named Summers was crossing the rails with his wife in a waggonette, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Fencing. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—I wish to call the attention of the authorities to the rotten state of the railway fence, in places between Woodford and Hexham. On the morning of the 14th…
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YESTERDAY afternoon an accident befel the Minmi coal train as it was coming into Newcastle. Soon after leaving Hexham, the axle of one of the waggons, fortunately the…
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THE usual train from the North, which ought to have reached the Newcastle station at 10.15 p.m., did not arrive till midnight, owing to some mishap to one of the wheels of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waratah Railway Station
WE are in receipt of a lengthy communication from a correspondent (an old inhabitant of Waratah) respecting the want of accommodation at the Railway Station. The…
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With regard to the further extension of the Great Northern railway, the S. M. Herald learns the surveys are expected to be sufficiently forward in about a month to enable…
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RESIDENTS of Wickham and neigbourhood, and all who are in the habit of using the Maitland road, will be pleased to learn that Mr. Meldrum, the road superintendent, has…
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THE consideration of this project of Mr. COPELAND'S came on for discussion in the Assembly on Friday last, and we congratulate the hen. gentleman upon…
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THE following amounts occur in the proposed distribution of the votes on the Estimates for 1879 for subordinate roads in this districr:— Wallsent to Maitland and Gosford Road, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Painful Accident on the Railway
As the down mail train from Tamworth was approaching the Murrurundi Station on Saturday last, an accident of a very painful nature befel the head porter, a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Waratah Railway Station
As the winter is fast approaching, when we may expect cold weather, I feel it my duty to again draw attention to the want of accommodation at this station, in the shape of…
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THE opening of the branch railway from Werris's Creek to Breeza took place yesterday. The attendance at the ceremony was not very large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The North Western Railway Opening of the Line to Breeza
A MOST important epoch in the progress of railway extension into the interior of the colony was reached on Tuesday, by the opening, of the branch line fruit Werris…
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THE trial survey of the railway to connect Sydney with the Great Northern line through the county of Northumberland, is said by a Brisbane Water correspondent, to be…
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THE opening of the line to Breeza has resulted in the following changes amongst the station-masters :—Mr. F. Robins has left Quirindi to take charge of Breeza station;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion of a Railway Engine
ON Tuesday the boiler of a locomotive engine used by the contractors (Messrs. Leslie and Co.), on the Horsham line, exploded about a mile from Horshan, near Melbourne…
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THE annual dinner of the employes in the locomotive department of the Great Northern Railway was held on Saturday evening last, at Galley's Family Hotel, and was a great…
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