Entering a Train in Motion
An elderly woman named Amelia Otto, servant to Mrs. Kinglock, of Redmyre, met with a serious accident yesterday at the railway station of that suburb. By…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1885
299 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 15
The Railway Accident at Cootamundra
In the case Adams V. Commissioner for Railways, the jury gave the following answers to specific questions left for their decision:—1. Were the culverts…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—The Russian authorities are actively proceeding with the completion of the railway to Merv…
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WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.—A meeting of members of the Narrabri Walgett Railway League was held in the council chambers, West Maitland, this afternoon,…
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ON Friday evening, about 7 o'clock (says the Dubbo Despatch) a fatal accident occurred on the railway line, about four miles from Ny[?]gan, by which a fettler named Patrick…
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ONE of the regulations in the Railway Department is that workmen meeting with accidents at their employment shall receive four-fifths of their ordinary…
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George, Pillar, a carter, was found yesterday on the railway between Malvern and Caulfield stations with both feet cut off and his head battered, evidently by…
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An opposition petition to the two which are to be presented from Narrabri praying for a deviat on of the Moree extension is being got up. The inhabitants of…
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Mr. Fletcher, M.L.A., had an interview to-day with the Commissioner for Railways, and received the information that the tramway route between Newcastle…
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The Minister for Works is unable to receive the deputation connected with the Walgott-Narrabri railway till the 17th instant. The Ministers will also receive…
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Henry Kegan, assistant guard, while uncoupling a van from the train at Eveleigh station fell, and the wheels passed over him. He died shortly afterwards in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Leap From the Brooklyn Bridge
THE great bridge, ever since it was opened (says the New York correspondent of the S. M. Herald) has been a standing temptation to foolish persons…
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In addition to the Michael Campbell who was run over by a train between the Ascot Vale and Newmarket stations, two similar cases are reported. A carter,…
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The Engineer-in-Chief of the Railway Department and the Traffic Manager left Adelaide to-day for the border, to meet the Victorian Railway Commissioners, to…
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The extension of the Western Railway to Dulvadilla, 40 miles from Mitchell, end 70 miles from-Charleville, will be opened about the second week in August…
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In the Assembly yesterday, the Minister of Railways said that the returns from the railways were so very encouraging that when the accounts of the department were…
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A meeting, influentially attended, was held at Glen Innes on Thursday, when resolutions were carried asking the Minister to have additional surveyors…
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A deputation interviewed the Premier in advocacy of a reduction of railway freights. Mr. Service replied that he was eager to meet the farmers in every way…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Saturday. Shocking Railway Fatality
News reached town this morning that Mr. George Hughes, publican, Cheese-man's Creek, near Orange, and well known throughout the district, had met…
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A few days ago a train was despatched from the Brisbane terminus without a staff, but the omission was not found out till its arrival at Toowong, when a…
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