The City Railway
The Minister for Works has informed a deputation that plans of the city of railway extension will be submitted to Parliament in the coming session…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1885
299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 15
Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. Railway Collision
It is expected that two or more actions against the Commissioner of Railways for damages arising out of the Darra railway collision will shortly come before the…
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ABOUT 7 o'clock last night a shocking railway accident befel a woman named Bridget Pritchard. From particulars gathered, it appears that the woman was…
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In the House of Commons, yesterday, Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for India, announced that the Government was massing material in Quetta,…
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The Government have offered to work the Largs Bay railway for £12,000 yearly, end the directors of the Large Bay Company have accepted the offer…
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Messrs. Smith and Young, M.L.A., yesterday asked Mr. Wright to bring down an estimate in the next session of Parliament for the construction of the…
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Tenders have been called for a loan of £160,000 at 5 per centum, for the Wellington and Manawatu railway, the minimum being fixed at £98. Tenders…
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JAMES ROSE, 29, and William Green, 25, guards on the Government railways, were charged in the Central Police Court, Sydney, on Monday, by Senior-Constable Day and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Newcastle Railway Waggon Co. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—I have very often been impressed at the supiness of the inhabitants of the city and district of Newcastle in allowing the immense…
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A SHOCKING discovery was mode on June 17 at the Old Trafford tunnel, on the Manchester and South Junction railway, near Manchester. On the…
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Two railway guards, James Rose and William Green, were committed for trial for embezzling sundry good entrusted to their care…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Press Railway Passes
THE Commissioner for Railways has issued a circular to proprietors of newspaper notifying that it has been decided to concede to pressmen the privilege of…
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The Government propose in connection with the railway opening to Bourke, fixed to take place on the 3rd September to issue specially cheap tickets for the…
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Sarah Thomas, 53, was knocked out of a tram motor at Parramatta. She was run over and fearfully mangled…
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An accident occurred at the Rooty Hill railway station this evening, when two goods trains collided. The damage done to the rolling stock is enormous. The mail…
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WITH respect to the inconvenience anticipated on the Maitland-road of the proposed use of explosive material Mr. T. Coz, Mayor of Waratah, has received the following telegram…
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Lord Loftus has expressed his intention to visit the Darling on the occasion of the railway demonstration at Bourke…
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It is contemplated by the Government to improve the tramways to a considerable extent, with the object of reducing the cost of repairs to the roads and to the rolling…
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OUR Wallsend correspondent writes:—The navvies' camp has been removed from the vicinity of Cockle Creek to Cooranbong. This will show the progress the Messrs…
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A married woman named Gifford attempted to cross the railway line at the level crossing, near Moama, yesterday, as the Deniliqu[?] train was approaching,…
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