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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1879

83 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 5

Disastrous Railway Collision at Parramatta. a Large Number of Persons Wounded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 December 1879 · page 3

ON Boxing Night (Friday), the train from the Hawkesbury races ran into a train at the Parramatta station, at half-past 5 o'clock. Three carriages were…

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The Late Railway Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 December 1879 · page 2

THE oft repeated assertion "We know not what a day may bring forth" was sadly exemplified on Friday last. The evening metropolitan papers of…

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The Late Disastrous Railway Collision at Parramatta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 December 1879 · page 2

GREAT indignation was expressed at the Press being refused admittance at the inquiry, and public feeling demands a non-departmental investigation…

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