The Wallsend-Newcastle Tramway. Important Item
We learn that during the past week or two the Government Surveyor, Mr. Manly, and Mr. Schelchier, Civil Engineer, of Sydney, have definitely fixed the water-ways in…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1885
299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 15
As Others See Us. a Metropolitan Journal on Our Railway Arrangements
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Daily Telegraph of to-day has a leading article on the Wallsend and Newcastle railway arrangements, and says: "The Northern lines…
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AT the beginning of the year it is a wise and beneficial custom, not only to take stock of the good things we actually possess, but also to look…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The brother of Mr. Paterson, a coal merchant of Melbourne, has been killed by a number of trucks going over him at Spencer-street…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Howard, a railway porter at Mulgrave, was killed yesterday whilst spragging a truck…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Liberal Association are soliciting the Minister for Works for a train to Mount Victoria on Sundays…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.âA child was born yesterday in the express train from Sydney to Melbourne…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A railway passenger has been fined £5 for using a post dated (?) ticket. Another passenger has been fined £10 for riding in a first-class carriage…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The tram fares were increased to-day to 3d…
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YESTERDAY morning a Wallsend miner named William Garbett, was admitted to the hospital suffering from broken ribs and injuries to his leg. On Saturday night he wandered on to the Great…
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AT length an indication of the falling-in of the main road to Wallsend has taken place. At the brow of the hill near the cemetery, near the intersection of the New Ballarat road, a subsidence has…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A terrible railway accident occurred on Sunday evening to the mail train. A culvert at what is known as the Salt Clay Creek, about three…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Edward Wehlow, son of Mr. Edward Wehlow, of the Woolpack Inn, Parramatta, a guard on the Illawarra railway, fell from the footboard, and the…
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The latest information from the Railway Department is that no express train will be dispatched from Sydney for some nights, but the mail train will leave as usual. The…
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THE frightful railway catastrophe on the overland line to Melbourne, near Cootamundra, is happily one which occurs only once or twice in a decade…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An inquest was commenced yesterday on the six bodies recovered from the railway disaster near Cootamundra. Other people are supposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision on the Western Line
AN accident occurred at Lawson station on the Western line on Saturday, when two engines collided while shunting, and three persons were injured. A dense fog has…
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A RATHER serious accident occurred on the Kemble Coal Co's line on Saturday. In the afternoon two locomotives were on the line; one was going down and the other…
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THE following description of the recent railway disaster, and the scene of the catastrophe is abridged from the "S. D. Telegraph," and will be read with interest:—…
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The Government have decided not to run any express trains for the present between Sydney and Albury, but the mail train will be despatched from Redfern as usual to the point of obstruction on the…
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