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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
846 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 43
EARLY on Friday morning the greatest engineering work in connection with bridges attempted in the Australasian colonies was advanced another and important stage…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday.—Further particulars with respect to the disaster on the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway show that the accident was caused by the breaking of one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—In Saturday's issue you published an extract from the Railway Commissioners' report for the quarter ending 31st December, 1888, which shows a marked improvement in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON more than one occasion it has been pointed out that the action of the Railway Commissioners in removing the officers of the traffic and audit branch of the Great Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE report of the Railway Commissioners for the quarter ending December, 1888, furnishes valuable and interesting information concerning the general management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Railway Commissioners have issued their first quarterly report, which will be found in another column. It is a highly satisfactory and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As the result of the conference between the Sydney and Brisbane Parliamentary authorities, it was decided that the time of the journey could not be reduced below 33½…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Twenty miles of the survey of the Mount Zehan railway have been completed. The work is diffiult one account of the scrub. HANLAN…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IT has been resolved by the many friends of the late Acting Traffic Manager, Mr. Fred R. Nield, who has just been transferred to the charge of the Western District, to mark…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A late edition of to-night's Evening News contained the following:— "A rupture is reported to have taken place in the Railway Department between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE report of the commission upon the alleged attempted bribery of members of Parliament in connection with the tramways was laid upon the table of the House on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Tuesday.—It is reported that Mr. J. C. Newton, of the London and Tilbury Railway, is likely to be appointed Commissioner of Railways for Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the alleged attempts made to bribe members of the late Parliament in connection with the proposal of a syndicate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THIS morning a deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Newcastle (Mr. Buchanan), Messrs. H. E. Stokes, Joseph Wood, J.P., and Donnelly, waited upon the Commissioners for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AN accident occurred to the 7 p.m. train from West Maitland to Newcastle last night, and the passengers were detained for over two hours at Hexham. About 25 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—Your Sydney correspondent has sent you a very fair report (condensed of course considerably) of the interview between the Commissioners and the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ABOUT 7 o'clock yesterday morning the body of a man named James Campbell, who resided with his wife and family at Hexham, was found lying between the double line of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE report of the interview between the deputation from the recent public meeting held in Newcastle and Mr. EDDY, on Friday last, and published…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. G. C. MARTIN, coroner, held an inquest yesterday forenoon, at the Primitive Methodist Church, Hexham, on the body of James Campbell, who was found dead on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE New South Wales Commissioners for Railways state that the information received from Brisbane on Monday to the effect that an agreement had been arrived at between the…
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