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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1884

330 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 17

The Glen Innes Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The railway to Glen Innes will be opened about June…

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Killed by the Tram

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man, name unknown, fell from a Newtown tram yesterday, and was killed on the spot…

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Mystery on the Illawarra Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1884 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—A navvy on the Illawarra Railway has been found dead in his hut. His hands and face were covered with blood. His hands were out…

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The Coonamble Bridge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 March 1884 · page 4

COONAMBLE, Friday.—The new Coonamble bridge has been completed…

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The Sydney Connecting Railway Gosford-waratah Section

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1884 · page 4

THE public being necessarily anxious with regard to the state of progress on the Homebush-Waratah Railway, we give the following brief items. They are more of…

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Exciting Fire on the Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1884 · page 3

CONSIDERABLE consternation and excitement were occasioned on Saturday afternoon, about twenty minutes to 5 o'clock (says the Sydney Daily Telegraph) by five…

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The Tramways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 April 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY,Thursday.—Mr. Dalley, in the Legislative Coucil, yesterday, stated that the total expenditure on the tramway service for lines in operation was, at the…

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Terrible Railway Accident in Victoria. Two Trains Wrecked. Loss of Life and Injury to Passengers. Another Gross Blunder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 April 1884 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday, 11.47 p.m News has just been received by telegram that a passenger train from Ballarat to Melbourne ran into a goods train between…

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Another Railway Calamity. Disastrous Explosion. a Locomotive Wrecked and the Stoker Killed. the Driver Seriously Hurt. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 April 1884 · page 2

Early this morning a telegram reached the Spencer-street Railway Station from Sunbury, giving intelligence of a shooking calamity which had just occurred at that…

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Intercolonial Telegrams The Recent Railway Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 April 1884 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The casualties so far at present known of the railway collision in Victoria are—Two engine drivers and one lady passenger killed, and thirty…

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The Late Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1884 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The survivors of the late railway accident near Little River are progressing favourably…

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Frightful Railway Accident. a Man Mangled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Chas. Atkinson, a porter at Macdonaldtown station, wan knocked down by a passing goods train and frightfully mangled…

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Terrible Explosion at Victoria Railway Station, Pimlico

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 April 1884 · page 4

During the night of February 25 an explosion occurred at the Victoria terminus of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, resulting in the complete…

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Votes for Roads and Bridges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1884 · page 2

IN another column will be found a number of resolutions to be moved in the Assembly by Mr. R. B. SMITH, M.P. for the Macleay, asking for sums…

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Fatal Railway Accident. a Man Caushed to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Theodore Le Barbe, cook on the Vernon, was attempting to enter a train in motion yesterday, when he fell between the carriage and platform,…

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Intercolonial Telegrams. Narrow Escape from a Railway Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1884 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A railway collision in Victoria between heavily-ladon passenger trains was averted on Monday by only a few yards…

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The Armidale and Glen Innes Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1884 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.— The Armidale and Glen Iones railway will be finished on Tuesday next…

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Serious Tram Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday.—A serious accident happened to Mrs. Roberts, wife of the superintendent of tramways, which may prove to be serious. Mrs. Roberts and…

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The Sydney Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. John Whitton, Engineer-in-Chief of Railways, has gone to Newcastle in reference to the proposed deviation of the Homebush-Waratah railway…

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The Superintendent of Tramways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 April 1884 · page 4

AN inquiry was held in Sydney on Monday (says the S. M. Herald) into the truth or otherwise of the charge contained in a statement made recently…

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