TELEGRAMS. Accident at the Parramatta Railway Station
SYDNEY, Saturday.—A serious railway accident happened at the Parramatta railway station this morning to a boy named Morrison, son of a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1884
330 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 17
Original Correspondence. Railway Conveniences. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—Will you kindly allow me space in your columns to call attention to the great want of conveniences felt in railway carriages in this colony,…
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WAGGA WAGGA, Saturday.—A railway accident occurred near the Sandy Creek station on Thursday evening, A mixed train which left Wagga at 9…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Thomas Goff, a railway guard was charged to-day at the police court with assaulting Elizabeth Hooper, a Public School teacher, in a railway carriage…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A railway collision occurred this morning. The early goods train, with empty trucks, was wrongly shunted by the pointsman on to the main…
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AT the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Monday, Thomas Gaff, a railway guard, was charged with assaulting Elizabeth Hooper, with intent to ravish her, in a…
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A NEW scale of rates to he charged for merchandise, etc., on the railways, has just been published, and came into operation on the 1st inst. The…
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Mr. CORRICK, M.P. of Woolombi has received the following communications from Government on the subjects mentioned, regarding which he has written:â…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A fireman of a tram motor was looking out of the window of his engine when his head collided with a tram which was passing in a contrary direction…
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A STARTLING event occurred on Monday afternoon (says the Echo) in Bridge-street, between George and Pit streets, Sydney, where some buildings are being…
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A COLLISION occurred on January 2 on the Grand Trunk Railway, a short distance east of Toronto, between a train which daily leaves the city, with a car…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—The recent alteration in the railway tariff, to which attention was directed by Mr. Sydney Smith and others in the Assembly on Tuesday…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At a meeting of railway employees yesterday it was arranged that the hours of work under the one break system proposed by the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Cam and Co. are the lowest tenderers for the Molong to Orange railway, at £151,000…
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A SAD and fatal accident occurred yesterday at Tighe's Hill, on the Waratah railway line. The Waratah Coal Company's engine was driving a heavy train of coal in front…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister of Works intends to revise the railway goods rates…
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NEW YORK Dec. 23.—Annie Sestanber, fourteen years of age, left her home, No. 186 Rivington street at a few minutes to seven o,clock on…
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 24, 1884.—The most disastrous accident that has happened on any of the Louiseville Railroads since the Floyd's Fork…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Government have taken possession of the Wagga bridge, which has been opened to the public free of toll…
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LAST night at the City Hall, Dr, Kuaggs delivered the fifth lecture upon "First Aid to the Wounded," to the men employed in the Great Northern Railway. He treated…
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