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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
732 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 37
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,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Government have placed a number of rollers under the tramway waiting shed at Webster-street, and a day or two will no doubt see the structure at Steel-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday Evening.—A powerful American syndicate is taking steps to promote a railway in Palestine, connecting the sea coast with Jerusalem, Gallilee, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PATRICK MURPHY, the engine-driver of the train which came into collision with the runaway carriages containing the children of the Sunday-school excursion from Armagh to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON behalf of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants an important letter has been sent to the directorates of the various railway companies, containing proposals for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ON Sunday evening word was received at the Newcastle railway station that heavy rains were falling between Singleton and Murrurundi, and in consequence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE most recent proposal for a huge bridge is for one across the Bosphorus, a project for which has been made out by a French engineering company. The historic and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AT a meeting of the Public Works Committee this afternoon the proposal to erect a new bridge between Newcastle and Carrington was considered. Mr. J. P. Abbott,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A contract for the construction of a railway from Bellerine, opposite Hobart, to Sorrell, was formally accepted on Monday. The tenderer is Mr. R. C., Patterson, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IF the people of Newcastle and Carrington do not make a long, strong, and simultaneous pull together an injustice of the worst kind will probably…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Hunter River had fallen so much at Maitland yesterday morning that the 7.40 passenger train from Newcastle was enabled to proceed right through, and by noon the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A DEPUTATION from the Wickham Council will wait on the Minister for Works to-day for the purpose of representing the profound feeling of dissatisfaction aroused in this city…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. J. CREER, M.P., has received the following communication from the Under-Secretary of Public Works:— "Department of Public Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GREAT indignation is expressed by citizens in reference to the proposal to substitute the long-promised Bullock Island bridge by a temporary structure, and this will probably…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Brakes Board held its first meeting on Wednesday. The members are: Mr. Neale, New South Wales; Mr. Allison Smith, Victoria; Mr. Roberts, locomotive…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A PUBLIC, meeting of the residents of Lower Hexham was held last evening in Wheeler's Hotel, for the purpose of taking stops to have a railway platform constructed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR. CURLEY, M.P., who with Alderman Myers and Mr. Hogue, of Wickham, waited upon the Minister of Works today with reference to the Maitland-road, also…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mu. JAMES CURLEY, M.P., accompanied by Alderman Myers, Mayor of Wickham, and Mr. Hogue, Council clerk, waited upon the Minister for Works to-day, in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting of the residents of Newcastle, convened for the purpose of taking into consideration, and protesting against the proposed action of the Government with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A TBLEGRAA from Denver City reports that there is every reason to fear that the Howard Athenæum Company, of Boston, have been buried in an avalanche of snow. The train in…
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