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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
512 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 26
PENEITH has again been the scene of another sad railway fatality, which cost Laurence Martin, aged 30, his life. It seems Martin was a railway shunter, and was following his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—The Russian Government is continuing to expend enormous sums of money on its military forces, and is constructing a railway to facilitate the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THIS morning at 10 o'clock, a navvy named David Kieran met with a shocking death at Penrith. As the train was approaching, he threw down his pick, and made a rush for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PASSENGERS at Halewood Station, near Liverpool, had a starting experience the other day. A porter walking along the platform was confronted by a full-grown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THOSE interested in the promotion of a line of railway to Broken Hill are looking eagerly around them for chunks of literary blue metal, to hurl at the heads of those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. J. Sheppard, president of the Railway Employees Association, has resigned, partly owing to ill-health, and partly owing to the existing friction with the Commissioners,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ON Saturday evening an accident occurred to the tram which left Lambton at 4.23 for Newcastle, which might have proved serious to a number of passengers, the driver, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Suburban Bicycle Club" hold their third road race on Saturday afternoon. The course was from the junction of Melville and Bull streets, down Bull-street, Darby-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ABOUT 11 o'clock on Friday night, a labourer named James Ellie, 27, was in the act of crossing the line at Tuggorah Railway Station, when he was knocked own by a train, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,âI venture to lay the following before you and a discriminating public. Last week a Mr. Russell, of Hamilton, a hotelkeeper, was fined in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THERE is every indication that at at no distant date an immense development will take place on the western side of the Australian continent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE unfortunate man, John Ellis, who was admitted to the Sydney Hospital on Saturday morning, having lost both his legs through being knocked down and run over by a train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWS arrived this afternoon that a young man was cut to pieces by the train from Melbourne to Brighton last night. In his pocket was found a free railway pass for all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A STRONG agitation is going on here in favour of the construction of the Cobar to Cockburn railway. Mr. Collins, manager of the South mine, is proceeding to Sydney forthwith to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A LARGE deputation, consisting of residents of Balmain, introduced by the members of the district, waited on the Minister for Works this morning in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A PUBLIC meeting was held from the balcony of the Criterion Hotel, Hunter-street, last evening, with the object of taking action against the opening of a colliery on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SOME dissatisfaction exists among the employees at the railway workshops, Eveleigh, at the sudden dismissal of about 150 men. The reason given for this step is the scarcity…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—Seeing that the Public Works Committee have finally decided to recommend the construction of the Cobar-Broken Hill railway a few facts concerning the Lachlan…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE suit brought by the Scottish Australian Mining Co., Limited, against the Redhead Coalmining Co. Limited, was continued before the Chief Judge in Equity to-day. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE London police are just now earnestly endevouring to solve the mystery of a railway ay van. The story (says a London paper of March 24) dates from last Wednesday,…
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