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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
732 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 37
A WELL-ATTENDED MEETING was held at the Traveller's Rest Hotel, last night, so consider the advisability of urging upon the Commissioners for Railways the necessity of erecting a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR,—Yesterday evening I happened to be travelling by a train running from Maitland to Newcastle. When arriving at Waratah, there got into the carriage in which I was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A CENTRAL News telegram from Chicago says:—An express train from Chicago for Cincinnati ran into the rear of train of mixed carriages near Cincinnati. Four persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letter has been addressed to the Editor of the Maitland Mercury:— "Sir,—In asking you to publish in your next issue the enclosed letter from the Works…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT a meeting of the Forth Bridge Railway Company, held in Edinburgh recently, a report was read, which stated that the capital created, viz., £2,150,000, had been called up,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MESSRS. CREER AND MELVILLE, Ms P., to-day called at the Works Department in connection with the roads in Northumberland. As Mr. Bruce Smith is away in Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Commissioners have reinstated James Brown, the secretary of the Railway Servants Mutual Association, who was recently dismissed on the ground that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the regular meeting of the Newcastle Council last evening, the following letter was read:— "Sydney, 24th March, 1890…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The members of the Ministry have conferred with Mr. Speight, chairman of the Victorian Railway Commissioners, who had been authorised to assess the Main Line of rails…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE Mayor, Alderman Christie, requests us to publish the following letter, which is self-explanatory:— "Sydney, 24th March, 1890…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—To show how inconvenient the North Shore St. Leonards railway is, I may state that the St. Leonards Bowling Club, when they visited us on the 8th, had to go…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →As a fitting accompaniment of the public agitation in Newcastle against the construction of a temporary bridge for the purpose of connecting Carrington with Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →YESTERDAY afternoon at about half past 4 o'clock, a young man named Walter Cook met with a terrible death on the Burwood line near Merewether's office. It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE following letters which have passed between the Mayor of Lambton and Mr. Murray, tramway inspector, will serve to show that an apparent change has come over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A FATAL railway accident occurred recently on the Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago railway. It seems to have resulted from the breaking of a rail, and took place while a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE postponed meeting from Monday night, advertised to take place at the Glesgow Arms Hotel, Carrington, to protest against the proposed temporary bridge to Carrington, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE road to Cockle Creek railway station is now in a most deplorable state. Some seven months ago contracts were let for the forming and metalling of a large length of this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN inquest was held at M'Auliffe's Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, before Mr. G. C. Martin, district coroner, at half-past 10 o'clock yesterday morning, on the body of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SIR,—I see in Wednesday's paper that Mr. W. M'Leod, hon. secretary of the Newcastle Bowling Club, thinks that the above railway ought to be constructed in order, among…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Wednesday.—It is reported on good authority that the Russian Government has obtained a monopoly of railways throughout Persia…
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