The Narrabri-Walgett Railway
ONE Of the most influential and representative public meetings ever held in Tamworth took place on Monday for the purpose of hearing the views of the delegates from…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1884
330 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 17
TELEGRAMS. The Illawarra Railway
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Rowe and Smith's tender for £44,318 is the lowest for the second section of the Illawarra railway. The distance is 20½ miles, and…
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IN England railway men, when they enter the service of the companies, usually begin at the lowest rung of the of the ladder. They are not appointed…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The tender of Messrs. Rowe and Smith, at £21,000 per mile, for the second section of the Illawarra railway, has been accepted…
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AT 7.30 p.m., at the City Hall to-day, will be a moment of much importance to Newcastle, and all residents possessed of any spirit of enterprise, ought to make it a point to put in an appearance. It is…
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SYDNEY, Thursday, 7 p.m.—It is stated that in a few minutes the Minister for Works intends to lay on the table the plans of the proposed tramway between…
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WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.—A very large and most successful meeting of the Borough Council was held last night, to receive the railway delegates from…
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AT the City Hall, last night, a public meeting was held for the purpose of urging upon the Government the advisability of immediately extending the line of railway from Narrabri to Walgett, thus to secure to…
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An alarming collision, resulting unhappily in the deaths of a driver and stoker, occurred at the Seven-oaks station on the South-Eastern railway on June 7. It appears that while the Continental goods train…
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THE Hon. G. R. DIBBS, the Acting-Minister for Works, has given instructions to Mr. MORLARTY. Engineer-in-Chief for Harbours and Rivers, and…
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MURRURUNDI, Tuesday.—At a meeting of the progress committee last evening, it was resolved that Messrs. McLaughlan and Fremlin, M's.P., be asked to represent…
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SIR,—I notice in the report of the Walgett Narrabri meeting at Newcastle, for which report we certainly owe you our thanks, you mention that I said Mr. Mann, of Mann,…
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AT a committee meeting, held yesterday, Mr. Richardson, Mayor of Plattsburg, was chosen as a delegate to represent the Newcastle district at the deputation that will…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Pyrmont Bridge, which for years has been such a tax on the people of Sydney and Pyrmont, will to-morrow, 1st August, be thrown…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A very large and influential deputation yesterday waited upon the Acting Minister of Public Works re extension of railway from…
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YESTERDAY afternoon a fatal accident happened to a well-known railway employee at Werris' Creek Junction. The deceased, William Tooze, had for years past been a well-known guard of the goods trains,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Pyrmont bridge has been opened till midnight free of toll…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.—It has been decided to open the railway line to Mudgee on Wednesday, September 10. There will be great doings at Mudgee on that…
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SIR,—As the time is now drawing to a close for the all-important topic of railway extensions to be of any use, it's to be hoped that the gentlemen who so prominently…
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THE following extract from the Sydney Daily Telegraph of Saturday last should act as a gentle stimulant to the "active and energetic" committee in…
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