Scotch Railway Strike
LONDON, Monday.—The strike of railway employees in Scotland is assuming a more serious aspect every day, and at present there appears not the least chance of the dispute…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1891
512 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 26
Sticking up a Train
LONDON, Tuesday.—A dispatch from New York reports that news has been received of a daring train robbery in Texas. A mail train while proceeding through a lonely part…
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IN replying to a question on the subject to-day, the Minister for Works stated the Government intended to invite tenders early in March next for the extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →(From Sydney and Melbourne Papers.) English Railway Employees
LONDON, Wednesday.—There is much excitement among the employees of the Great Western Railway Company owing to the refusal of the directors to concede the men's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CABLEGRAMS. The Railway Strike in Scotland
LONDON, Wednesday.—The Provost of the Edinburgh Council of Magistracy has memorialised the Board of Trade, petitioning Government to intervene and prevent the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Differential Railway Rates. Centralisation System Abolished. SYDNEY
ON February 1st the new system of differential rates introduced by the Railway Commissioners will be carried into operation. Hitherto a differential rate system existed,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Summons Cases. Breach of the Railway Bylaws
W. J. Boyer pleaded guilty to a charge instituted by the Railway Commissioners, of entering a train while in motion, at Newcastle, on the…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, president of the Board of Trade, replying to a memorial of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, states that the Government is not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gippsland Coal. Railways Refuse to Use It. Melbourne
THE residents of Coalville waited on the Railway Commissioners to-day, and urged the Government to continue to buy local coal, as hundreds of persons were depending on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Brisbane, Friday. Prohibitive Railway Rates
A deputation waited on the Minister for Railways to protest against the exorbitant rates imposed by the Railway Commissioners. The deputation pointed out that the rates…
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LONDON Sunday.—The strikers at Edinburgh and Glasgow are still resolute. They are elated at the action of Parliament; nevertheless, traffic is well maintained…
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The agent for the Isis Investment Company, Maryborough, complains that although his principal's tender for 3000 tons of coal for the Northern Queensland railway was 4s…
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THE City and South London Electric Railway was opened for passenger traffic on December 18 from the station at Stockwell to King William-street, between which…
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LONDON, Monday.—The directors of the North British Railway Company are proceeding against the Scotch Railway Union, at whose instigation the strike was commenced,…
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Although it is stated that about 1800 men are on the books of the recently-formed Railway Traffic Employees' Union, only about 100…
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IN the Municipal Council last evening, Alderman THORN moved, "That this council (by deputation or otherwise) protest against the Government taking the tramway…
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ABOUT twenty-five minutes past 11 o'clock yesterday two waggons, attached to a loaded coal train from Young Wallsend, slipped the points, and left the road, when entering the…
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THE fact that several thousands of pleasure-seekers attended the regatta at Wallsend Reserve, Lake Macquarie, on Monday, besides the large number that found enjoyment…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian News. New South Wales. Killed by a Train
A MAN named Thomas Brogy, while waiting at Rydal railway station for the mail train on Tuesday morning attempted to swing a swag on to his…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.— A train, which was bringing home 70 cavalry end artillery men from the Indian war, collided with another train at Kansas. Both were wrecked, and it…
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