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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
215 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 11
WE have to record the most terribly sensational, railway casualty, and that of most serious cost in life and limb, which has occurred in New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WITH reference to the withdrawal of the Government advertisement inviting tenders for the construction of 25 tramway motors, it may be pointed out that this is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Patterson, the Victorian Commissioner for Railways, says that the revenue from Victorian railways falls short by £150,000 of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, October 1.—A movement has been started in the city for the formation of a Syndicate for the construction of the Australian Transcontinental Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Tamway Engineer, Mr. Gjedsted, has been suspended on the recommedation of the Commissioner for Railways, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON Monday last the annual picnic of the Locomotive Department of the Great Northern Line took place, with great success The spots selected on previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, October 11.—Another terrible railway accident is reported as having occurred to-day. An excursion train on Pittsburg Railway, containing a large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TAMWORTH, Tuesday.—The contractors for the Uralla extension have at length received a most solemn warning of the necessity to provide gatekeepers at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The question of publicans' licenses being issued to railway refreshment rooms will be discussed to-day, when a deputation will wait upon the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One day the usually impassive Leger Sombreker (an engine driver on Lyons railway) was found in the engine-shed giving way to a furious…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WE notice certain portions of the main road, near Cottage Bridge, are not a little in need of repair, and it would be well wore the custodians to bear in mind the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE are requested to call attention to the at that the notice or removal of material railway land, as given in the official advertisement, expires this clay (Saturday),…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—Some time ago you gave us two fine leading articles on having no roads in this district, which moved the inhabitants and Municipal Councils to, send…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE extensive improvements at the Newcastle Railway Station are at length assuming an appearance of completion. The newly-formed passenger platform on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A most destructive fire broke out at the Railway Terminus, Redfern, at ten minutes past 12 this morning, causing considerable alarm throughout the city,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Tenders have been called for the extension of the Great Northern Railway form Uralla to Glen Innes. On the North-Western Line, from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A NUMEROUS and influential deputation, introduced by the Mayor of Sydney, waited upon the Hon. John Lackey, Minister for Works on Friday morning, for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—I have advocated this line for five years. It is true that "time is money;" but G. A. Lloyd and Mr. Fletcher must surely understand that the advocacy of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—In reference to the girl that was killed by the engine at the Wickham railway crossing, this week, I would beg to inform you that, with a view of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE extraordinary casualty of a railway train being lost has actually happened in the United States to the Kansas Pacific Railway, which has spent 2500dol. in…
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