The Division of the Works Department Into Works and Railways
ONE of the first measures to be introduced by the present Government will be a bill to separate the Railways from the Works Department, making…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
356 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 18
The North Shore Tramway
The contractors for the North Shore tramway had an interview with Mr. Goodchap, Commissioner for Railways, as to the opening of the line for traffic. This…
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The train which left Bathurst at 5 o'clock this morning, when coming down the second zig-zag towards Penrith, owing to the brakes not acting well, ran…
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A special meeting of tram and rail employees has been called to consider the Commissioner's minute on the proposed amalgamation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Railway Employees' Gathering
A special meeting of all grades of railway and tramway employees is convened for to-morrow, for the purpose of taking into consideration the minute of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Slaughtered by a Train
A train ran into a mob of cattle near Wellington, and the line for the eighth of a mile was like a slaughter yard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident at the Zigzag
RUMOURS reached town on Monday morning that a railway accident had happened at the Zigzag, and that several persons had been killed and…
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The tender of Stephens and Co. has been accepted for the extension of the railway from Tenterfield to the Queensland border…
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A deputation waited on the Minister for Works to-day with reference to the railway from Pearce's Corner to North Shore. Mr. Ives, M.L.A., introduced the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rail and Tram Employees
A monster meeting was held to-night in the Protestant Hall of railway and tramway employees, to protest against the recent circular issued by Mr. Goodchap,…
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A son of Dr. Jamieson, of Melbourne, has been run, over by tramear and killed…
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The South Australian portion of the Intercolonial Railway will be opened on May 1st…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hordern's Railway Company
AT a recent meeting of Mr. Hordern's railway company (Western Australia), held at the British Mutual Bank, London—Mr. Powell in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Maitland Road Muddle
IN another column appears a letter from Alderman Cox respecting the abominable condition of the Maitland-road, between Tighe's Hill and Waratah. For some years…
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SIR,—Once again the traffic on the Maitland-road is stopped, to the great inconvenience of the municipalities of Waratah and Wickham, and indeed it may be said to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fall Off a Railway Engine
As a goods train was approaching the Moonee Ponds station in Victoria, at about 10 o'clock the other night the stoker suddenly missed the driver,…
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A VERY sensational accident occurred on Thursday night about 10 o'clock, as the goods train from Seymour to Melbourne was running past Essendon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Railway Employees Association
THE annual meeting of the Victorian Railway Employees' Association was held the other evening in the hall of the Y. M. C. A., Melbourne. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramway From Newcastle to Wallsend
MR. MANLY, Government engineer, acting under Mr. Bewick, made a preliminary inspection yesterday of the route through which the new tramway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Protection of Railway Passengers in France
A LONDON correspondent writes that the murder of M. Bariême has led the French Government to institute an inquiry into the steps which should be…
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