Singular Disaster to an Express Train
AN extraordinary but very horrible accident recently occurred near Andover, Massachusetts. A train of freight cars rumbling leisurely towards the above town was passed…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1890
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Railways and Tramways. Report for the Quarter
MESSRS. EDDY, Fehon, and Oliver, Commissioners for Railways of New South Wales, have made to the Minister for Railways (Mr. M'Millan) their report for the quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Resumption of Land on the Newcastle-wallsend Road. a Park Contemplated. SYDNEY, Friday Night
IN to-day's Government Gazette appears a proclamation notifying that it is the intention of the Government to resume the whole of the surface area (with the exception of…
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THE Commissioners for Railways have lately had ambulance material and life-saving apparatus placed on the wharves at Newcastle and the dyke, Carrington, and have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland. Cable Tramways
The chairman of the Brisbane Tramway Company has applied to the Municipal Council for their concurrence in the intention of the company to introduce a cable system…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District News. Plattsburg. Ironbark Creek Road
The following official communication has been received by the Council-clerk, from Mr. J. Creer, M.P., relative to the long-promised road to Ironbark Creek boatsheds:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Australia. Uniform Railway Guage
With regard to the proposal of the South Australian Government to hold an Intercolonial Conference to consider the question of a uniform gauge of railways for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carrington Bridge
AT the last meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works, Mr. BARLING, Under-Secretary for Works, made a statement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tasmania. New Railway
The tender of Mr. R. C. Patterson, of £52,807, for the construction of the Sorel railway, has been accepted. The work is to be completed by June 30, 1891. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway-men's Diseases
ACCORDING to M. Duchesne, railway men improve in health during the first four years, but at the end of 10 years they are tired out, in 15 years they are actual sufferers,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →TRAMWAY V. Light Railway. Result of the Conference
IT will be remembered that last month a conference was held at Lambton on the above question and other matters in connection with the tramway system of this district,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Chinese Railways
ACCORDING to news received by mail at the offices of the Exchange Telegraph Company from China, the Emperor has been made to take rather an undignified course regarding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Tram Accident. a Girl Cut to Pieces. SYDNEY
THIS morning a horrible tram fatality occurred, and a little girl 5 years of age, named Mabel Lloyd, living with her stepfather, at 17 Holdsworth-terrace, Comber-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suicide from Clifton Bridge
ANOTHER suicideâmaking the thirty-first of the melancholy recordâwas discovered recently at Clifton Suspension Bridge. The body was found under the south buttress, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Collision
NEW YORK, Sunday.—A collision took place to-day between two goods trains at Burds-town, Ohio. Three men were killed, and both engines, together with several care, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Brisbane, Tuesday. Railway Bridge Burned
One of the bridges on the central railway line near Westwood was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Public Works Committee. The Bullock Island Bridge. SYDNEY, Tuesday Night
THE Public Works Committee this afternoon presented their report on the proposed Nyngan-Cobar railway, which was recommitted and amended in certain particulars,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian News. New South Wales. Railway Accident
ON Monday evening at the Redfern railway station, a lad named Victor Martin, 11 years of age, who resides at Petersham, had a narrow escape from death. As the 6.17…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland. Equalising Railway Rates
The Railway Commissioners have decided that the wool rates on the central and northern railways be assimilated to those of the southern and western lines, and that goods…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Correspondence. Hamilton Commonage Road. to the Editor
SIR,—Through your valuable paper I desire to call the attention of the Hamilton Council to the bad state of the above road. The Commonage people, in return for their rates,…
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