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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1892

518 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 26

Cardiff Roads. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1892 · page 4

Ms. EDDEN M.P, to-day saw the Under-Secretary for Works with reference to the construction of a road at Cardiff. He pointed out that at present there was no…

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The Carrington Bridge. Conference of Aldermen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1892 · page 5

A CONFERENCE between representatives from the Newcastle, Wickham, and Carrington Councils and the members for the city, took place in the City Council Chambers last…

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Railway Commissioners' Report. Results of the Depression. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1892 · page 5

THE report of the Railway Commissioners for the quarter ending March 31, concerning the railways and tramways, has been forwarded to the Minister for Railways…

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Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Railway Tenders

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1892 · page 5

THE Railway Commissioners have accepted the following tenders:—Renewal and alteration of electric light at Redfern and Eveleigh: H. H. Kingsbury and Company,…

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Australian News. New South Wales. Fall Off a Tram

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1892 · page 6

A BOY named Francis Ford, residing with his father, Mr. John Ford, foreman of No. 2 Fire Station, George-street West, fell off a tram while in…

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The Sells' Train Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1892 · page 4

IT will be remembered that at the inquest on the victim of the railway catastrophe to one of the special trains conveying Sells' Circus from the Northern border to Armidale,…

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The Carrington Bridge. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1892 · page 5

MESSRS. Fegan and Grahame, Ms.P., have again seen Mr. Lyne, the Minister for Works, with reference to the bridge to connect Newcastle and Carrington. Despite the…

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The Carrington Bridge. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1892 · page 3

Sir,—It is now over two years since agitation by public meetings, municipal discussions, memorials, and deputations to ministers, to induce the…

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Queensland. Brisbane, Thursday. Railway Construction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 May 1892 · page 5

The Government have declined the offer of Overend and Co. to construct, upon Treasury bills, the section of the Bundsberg-Gladstone railway intervening between the sections…

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Queensland. Railway Complications

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1892 · page 2

Serious complications have taken place between the Railway Commissioners and the engineers for the northern division. The matter will probably be brought before…

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Another Tramline

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1892 · page 5

SOME agitation has recently taken place at Adamstown on the subject of the extension of the tram to that suburb, and the matter is being taken up with considerable energy…

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An "Honourable" in Trouble. Assault in a Railway Carriage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.—The Honorable Patrick Nugent was brought up to-day charged with assaulting a lady in a Brighton railway carriage. The prisoner pleaded…

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CABLEGRAMS. Demonstration by Railway Men. Bands Playing and Banners Flying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1892 · page 4

LONDON, Monday.—An immense demonstration of men employed by the railway companies took place in Hyde Park yesterday afternoon in favour of shortening the hours…

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The Carrington Bridge. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 3

Sir,—The Minister for Works should be congratulated by all the councils interested, especially by Carrington, for the wise decision he has…

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The Tighe's Hill Tramway. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 3

Sir,—Now that the construction of the tram line to Tighe's Hill has commenced it would be advisable for the Wickham Council to carefully…

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Railway Accident. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1892 · page 5

A LAD named Breeze, employed at the railway works, was crushed between the buffers of two engines last night and severely injured. He was passing between a stationary…

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Victoria. Melbourne, Friday. the Railway Commissioners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1892 · page 5

It is stated that there is a doubt as to whether the Government acted legally in suspending the Railway Commissioners; but Mr. Shiel[?] maintains that they were fully…

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Correspondence the Inverell Railway. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1892 · page 8

Sir,—Many of those who have written on this subject have not looked at the question in its wider bearing. It is not a local matter affecting only a few small towns in the…

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Train Traffic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1892 · page 5

As might have been expected, the train traffic was not nearly so heavy as it usually is on holidays, and consequently one or two of the specials were cancelled. A train left…

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Tasmania. the Hobart Tramway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1892 · page 6

Men have been put on to extend the Hobart tramway, the money having arrived from London for the completion of the work…

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