Attempt to Upset a Train
An attempt was made to upset a train in Adelaide, on which were the Governor and a number of members of Parliament…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1885
299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 15
The Orange-Molong Railway
The Government are unable to state the time of opening the railway from Orange to Molong…
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The annual picnic of the Locomotive Department took place at Woodstock yesterday. Between six and seven thousand persons were present Mr. W. H…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Expensive Tramways
In the action Pugsley (the widow of the man killed owing to the defective state of the nails of the tramway on the Botany-road) v. the Commissioner of Railways a…
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THE employees of the above branch of the Railway Department held their 12th annual celebration on Monday last at the Singleton. Show Grounds, Shortly after 7 a.m. two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murder on the Condobolin Road
THE verdict of the jury at the inquest held on the death of Catherine Regan, an old woman who was found murdered in her house on the Condobolin-road on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The City and District Tramway
This important matter has been so long dangled before the public by the Government in one shape or another without any finality, that the citizens…
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James Humphries a waggon-builder at the Redfern railway works, who was knocked down by a truck, run over, and fearfully mutilated, is dead…
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It is the intention of the Government to propose the construction of a railway from the Crow's Nest to Port Jackson by a line terminating at Ball's Head…
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The London Engineering Co. condemns the Sydney tramway system…
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The Locomotive Department held their annual picnic at Menaugle yesterday, when there was a large attendance…
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Inquiries are being made of the South Australian, Agent-General as to the nature of the qualification for positions on the Railway Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CORRESPONDENCE. The City and District Tramway. (To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate.)
SIR,—Your explanatory letter in to-day's issue of your influential and, widely-read journal on the delay in starting the city and district tramway, has given your readers much information that hitherto…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Requirements
The Government have ordered five Baldwin locomotives for passenger engines, and also 20 engines from Messrs. Kitson and Co., of Leeds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Bridge Over the Hawkesbury
DESIGNS ,for the bridge over the Hawkesbury River in connection with the Homebush to Warafah Railway combined with tenders for the construction and erection of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Goulburn-Cooma Railway
Messrs. Walker and Co., the contractors for the third section of the Goulburn-Cooma railway, have despatched the remainder of their contracting plant, about…
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Two young women, named respectively Maggie O'Connor and l'ottie Tribe, were run over at Balmain-street crossing, Richmond, yesterday, by a train, from…
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An attempt was made to upset the western mail train, between Blackheath and Mount Victoria by placing a large stone on the rails, where it was discovered…
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The Executive Council has approved of the amended railway rates but the particulars are not yet made known…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The N.S.W. Railways
The 30th anniversary of the foundation of the railway in the colony will be commemorated to-morrow by a social gathering of the railway officers…
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