Road From Cardiff. to the Editor
SIR,—Would you kindly insert the following in your valuable paper. A meeting of the inhabitants of Cardiff was held on Saturday to consider the bad state of the roads…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1890
732 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 37
A Big Bridge
THE bill for the construction of a second bridge across the Poet River has passed to its third reading in the Now York. States Assembly. Congress has already authorised…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Improvements
For a long time past the accommodation at the Newcastle railway station has been in sufficient for the growing requirements of the city, end the public have consequently not…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—It is hoped that £1,000,000 will be subscribed for the West Australian midland railway scheme by the middle of the month of May. Seven…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Attempt to Wreck a Train
A villainous attempt was made on Sunday night to overthrow a contractor's train coming from Murchison to Rushworth on Monday morning. Two or three miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Terrible Railway Collision. Five Passengers Killed. Three Others Seriously Injured. Train Completely Wrecked. SYDNEY, Friday Night
About 8 o'clock to-night, Mr. Collins, stationmaster, Redfern, received a telegram from Bathurst, giving news of a fearful railway accident at that place. The telegram was as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The North Shore Railway
WHEN the Parliamentary Committee on Public Works was appointed, the idea was, says the Evening News, that it should be simply a body to collect evidence and report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Saturday, March 15. (Present: Lord MACNAGHTEN, Sir Barnes Peacock, and Sir Richard Couch.) Brown and Others V. the Commissioner for Railways
THIS was an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court of New South Wales of June 4, 1888, making absolute a rule nisi for a new trial in an action brought by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bathurst Railway Smash. to the Editor
SIR,—It is reported that an order has recently been issued to do away with the use of the side chains of our rolling stock and use the centre couplings only. If this be true,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Strike in Ireland
LONDON, Friday.—A great strike of railway employees has occurred on the Queenstown and Dublin railway, causing the complete suspension of traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strike of Railway Men in Ireland
LONDON, Saturday.—The railway strike which originated in Cork is extending throughout the Southern and Western Railway. The traffic is impeded at Limerick,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Disaster at Bathurst. the Alleged Cause of the Disaster. the Inquest Opened. Sympathy of Lord and Lady Carrington. SYDNEY, Sunday Night. Another Victim
THE girl Maud Radford, who was injured in the Bathurst railway accident, died at the hospital at 5 o'clock yesterday morning. The Suspected Cause…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Run Over by a Train. Tamworth
A VERY serious accident to a railway fettler named Marshall occurred on Saturday night near Werris Creek. Marshall was in the act of jumping off the mail train whilst in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Redhead Coal Company's Railway. a Heavy Claim for Severance
AN arbitration case, arising out of the construction of the Redhead railway, was commenced in the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce, Scott-street, on Saturday at half-past…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Strike in Ireland
LONDON, Monday.—Mr. Michael Davitt, M.P., has made several attempts to mediate between the railway employees now on strike in Ireland and the directors of the different…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Great Northern Railway. a Good Record
THE recent terrible railway accident at Bathurst has been one of the chief topics of conversation in the district during the past few days, and as a consequence attention has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bathurst Railway Accident. the Inquest. Sydney
THE adjourned inquest on the bodies of those killed in the railway accident was resumed at the Bathurst Courthouse this morning. The jury proceeded to the station and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Opening of Parliament. the Governor's Speech. Proposed Legislation. Federation. Railway Policy. District Government. Mining Policy. SYDNEY
AT noon to-day the third session of the fourteenth Parliament of New South Wales was opened in person by his Excellency Lord Carrington. The occasion was surrounded by the usual semi-State…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Brisbane, Tuesday. the Railway Insurance Scandal
The Railway Commissioners have ordered an inquiry into the circumstances in connection with Colledge's negotiations for the insurance of the railway officials…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Strike in Ireland
LONDON, Monday.—Archbishop Walsh is endeavouring to mediate between the railway companies and the employees on strike…
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