Opening of Back Creek Bridge at Minmi
ON Saturday last quite an interesting ceremony was performed, viz., the official opening for traffic of the newly-constructed bridge over Back Creek by Mrs…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1883
202 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 11
Trial Bay-armidale Railway
The Macleay Chronicle says that "little progress has been made at the coast end with the trial survey for the Trial Bay-Armidale-railway. The Surveyor met with…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The axle of a goods truck train, between Junee and Hay, broke, throwing several trucks and carriages off the line. Seven passengers in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A shocking tramway accident occurred to-day on the Waverley line. Mrs. Ann Richards, while attempting to cross the line, was…
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A MEETING of subscribers and persons interested in the proposed demonstration at the time of the opening of the railway was held in the Town Hall on…
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JAMES and party, who have been engaged in surveying the route for a railway from Palmerston to the Reefs, returned to Adelaide on Monday in good health. The…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The body of the man killed by the tram has been identified as that of George Fowler, a bricklayer, and not Quinn,…
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FROM our London files we learn that the London and North-western Railway Company have introduced, into their fast passenger service between London and…
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LONDON, Jan. 18.—The employees on the Caledonian Railway are on strike, and impeding the factories and collieries from working…
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The Armidale Railway Demonstration Committee has published a programme of sports, with prizes amounting to one hundred and twenty pounds, (£120), for Feb. 2nd…
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THE Illawarra railway will be constructed with a double line as far as Hurstville, about 8 miles from Sydney, and consequently the Cook's River…
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THE Dalby Herald, writes:—"The railway question in Queensland does not hinge upon the more advisability of land grants, or otherwise, but upon the respective merits…
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In our advertising columns particulars of special train accommodation will be found. Ordinary excursion tickets will be issued as follows:—At all stations north of Singleton…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A deputation, composed of Messrs. Fletcher, Ellis, Melville, and Tighe, M's.L.A., waited on the Minister for Works, urging on…
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THE Pennsylvania Railway Company has, we learn from the New York Medical Record, purchased 2000 tin boxes, containing a few simple surgical…
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PARRAMATTA, Saturday. An accident occurred yesterday at the Parramatta Railway Station, owing to the neglect of the pointsman Cox, who while…
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ARMIDALE, Thursday Evening.—The official opening of the extension of the Great Northern Line from Uralla to Armidale—a distance of fifteen…
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THE proposition of Mr. HORDERN, of Sydney (as the representative of a great English syndicate or company) to the Government of Western Australia…
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ARMIDALE, Thursday, 7.40 p.m.—The Ministerial train, which left Newcastle this morning, at three o'clock, arrived here to-day, at 2 p.m. having aboard…
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A NOVEL tramway experiment was witnessed in the yard of Mr. Thomas Wearne's factory at the Glebe on Wednesday. It was that of a model locomotive and…
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