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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1892

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Railway Delay at Wollongong. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 January 1892 · page 5

A SLIGHT occident, which delayed traffic for some time, occurred on the railway near Wollongong station yesterday. Owing, it is thought, to some mistake in the points the…

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Train and Tram Traffic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 5

The passenger traffic on the railways was extremely heavy yesterday, and the crowds of people travelling were well cared for, the trains running well to time, and every…

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Suicide from a Suspension Bridge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 6

THE body of a man was recently discovered near rocks on the Somerset side of the Avon. The appearance of the body left no doubt that death was…

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Australian News. New South Wales. Proposed Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 2

SEVERAL loading Sydney speculators have arrived in Deepwater for the purpose of taking plans for the construction of a tramline from Deepwater through Emmaville,…

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Shocking Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 7

PRIVATE advices from Orel announce that twenty passengers and three officials were killed, while ten persons were seriously injured in a railway…

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Proposed Underground Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 7

IN the ensuing session of the Imperial Parliament a bill will be promoted to obtain power to construct an underground railway from Waterloo station,…

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Terrible Railway Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—A terrible railway collision has taken place at Rosovo, Russia. So far as is at present known, 20 passengers have been killed, and 100 others were…

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Six Months' Railway Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1892 · page 11

RETURNS to the Board of Trade of accidents on railways in the United Kingdom during the six months ended June last show that 547 persons were…

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Tasma[?]a. the New Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 January 1892 · page 6

The first train ran over the new Zeehan and Strahan line on Saturday night. RACING AT BRIGHTON…

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A Railway Track Washed Away

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1892 · page 3

A GANG of workmen have been repairing the wash-outs on the Northern Pacific Railway at Canyon Station, 70 miles east of Tacoma, when several…

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Victoria. Run Over by a Train

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 January 1892 · page 6

Mary Doyle, aged 60, a woman of the vagrant class, was run over and killed by a train in a tunnel near the Geelong station…

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Tram Accident. Boy Killed. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 5

AN accident resulting in the shocking death of a boy named Walter Roche occurred yesterday evening at the Eamore tram terminus. The lad had been given some…

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American Railways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1892 · page 8

THE report of the Inter-State Commerce Commission on the statistics of the American railways for the year ended June 30 shows that the total…

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Malicious Youngsters. Causing a Tram Accident. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1892 · page 5

TREVLYN MARCHANT, 14 and Daniel Brown, 15, were charged at the Police Court, Parramatta, to-day with that, in company, they did maliciously divert a point on the…

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Merewether Tramway. Another Route Determined Upon. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1892 · page 5

THE Minister for Works has decided that a different route to that proposed for the tramway from Newcastle to Merewether shall be taken, and a proclamation has been…

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CABLEGRAMS. Terrible Fire in Leeds. the Midland Railway Station Threatened

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 January 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.—A disastrous fire occurred to-day in a large soap works at Leeds. The damage is estimated at £800,000. One fireman was cremated before the eyes of…

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The Lambton Road. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 January 1892 · page 3

Sir,—I crave a short space for the purpose of drawing the attention of the proper authorities to the disgraceful and dangerous state of repair of a…

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Melville-street Tramway. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 January 1892 · page 3

Sir,—The telegram which appeared in your issue of Thursday last in reference to the above subject, from a special Sydney correspondent, is a…

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The Newcastle-merewether Tramway. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 5

THERE appears to have been some misunderstanding with reference to the route of the proposed tramway from Newcastle to Merewether. The original proposal was to…

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Tramway Penny Sections. Hamilton Requirements. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1892 · page 5

MESSRS. Scott, Fegan, and Grahame, Ms P., waited upon the Railway Commissioners to-day with reference to Hamilton requirements. They asked that the section on the…

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