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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
202 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 11
SIR,—I am glad to see someone taking up the matter re the above road—"or bog, or mountain bullock-track"—and will, with your permission, tell the "One, who has suffered through the bad roads"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The plans for the extension of the railway into the city are under consideration…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A new tram-motor and carriage . manufactured by Mr. Thos. Wearne, had a successful trial yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The railway returns for 1882 give the amount expanded on construction as £16,776,642 and the net earnings at £763,228, which shown a yield of 4.55 per cent. on the capital invested. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A meeting of railway employees was held on Saturday to receive the result of the late deputation to the Minister for Works, regarding the dismissal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.âA workman, named Coghlan, was knocked down yesterday by a passing train at Everleigh station. He was taken to the hospital, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A terrible railway accident occurred at Steglitz on Sunday night, September 2. The accident, which may be called a massacre, stands probably unique in the annals of railway disasters. The day being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Orders have been issued that Crown Lands be reserved on thirty-nine proposed railways and surveys…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following is a list of proposed lines of railways and surveys, in connection with which instructions have been issued by the Cabinet to reserve all Crown Lands passed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Joseph Perkins, grocer, of Forest Lodge, was knocked down by a steam motor at Leichardt-street yesterday. The wheels passed over one of his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A tram conductor McDermott fell from the ears to-day, and was severely injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Launceston Examiner of Saturday, October 13, states that on the previous Thursday night, between 12 and 1 o'clock, a cowardly action was perpetrated at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Hawthorne railway accident will cost the country over £120,000. Counsels' fees and costs amount to £6,800, and medical expenses to £7,648…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A deputation, consisting of Messrs, waited to-day on the Minister for Works, Fletcher, waited to-day on the Minister for Works, urging the metalling of that portion of the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—In reply to a question asked in the Assembly a return has been prepared which shows that during 1880 Wright, Heaton, and Co. paid to the Railway Department, £157,170; during 1881,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Stuart, in reply to Mr. M'Elhone, last night, said he was not aware that 255 tradesmen and worming men laid been dismissed, and that 150 were about to be dismissed, from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Bolger, traveller for Hardman Bros., in crossing the railway at Petersham, was knocked down yesterday by a passing train, and both his legs wide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A boy two years of age was knocked down by a tram car in Elizabeth-street, yesterday, and one of his legs was severed from his body…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Seven tenders were opened to-day for the third section of the Illawarra Railway, twenty-eight miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A newsboy, named Morris Ellis, nine years of age, fell from the step of a tramcar to-day. He was taken home, and died of concussion of the…
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