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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1892

518 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 26

Railway Quarterly Returns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1892 · page 5

THE following additional quarterly returns have just been compiled at the local railway offices:— COAL HAULED ON THE RAILWAY…

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Presentation to the Railway Commissioners. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 April 1892 · page 5

THIS morning the Railway Commissioners received from the stock and station agents of Sydney an expression of thanks and confidence which must have been highly…

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The Watkin-Ingram Marriage. Union of Railways and Newspapers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—Sir Edward Watkin, member for Hythe, was to-day married in St. George's Cathedral, Hanover-square, to Mrs. Ingram, aged 84, widow of the late…

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Tram Accident. No One Injured. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1892 · page 5

A RATHER peculiar tram accident occurred this morning in Belmore Park, where two trams came into collision. A little before 9 o'clock a tram, whilst ascending the steep…

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Inverell to Glen Innes Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 4

THE sittings of the Public Works Committee for the hearing of evidence on the above scheme have hitherto resulted in eliciting a good deal of expert and departmental…

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The Cambrian Railway Directors. Before the Bar of the House

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

LONDON, Friday.—Those portions of the House of Commons eat apart for visitors were thronged last night by an excited crowd, the cause of the unwonted…

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Alarming Railway Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1892 · page 8

AN alarming accident occurred recently in the Central Railway Station, Newcastle-on-Tyne, whereby a considerable number of passengers were injured, although none…

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British Railway Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1892 · page 4

THE cablegrams state that considerable excitement has been caused in the United Kingdom by the dismissal of a Mr. HOOD, stationmaster at…

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Railway Servants' Hours of Labour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1892 · page 3

WITH regard to the dismissal of Mr. Hood, stationmaster, which has drawn upon the directors of the Cambrian line the admonishment of the House of Commons, we…

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The Transcaspian Railway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The Afghans are boycotting the stations on the Transcaspian railway, in the Khojah district…

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Russian Railways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The Russian Government has announced its intention to issue an internal national loan of £11,250,000 at 4½ per cent., for the purpose of extending…

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The Road to India

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

LONDON, Monday.—In a manifesto just issued, the Ameer of Afghanistan states that he continues faithful to the allegiance of Great Britain, because the Russians would,…

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The Carrington Bridge. a Dangerous Structure

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 April 1892 · page 4

FOR some three years the people of this district have been doing their utmost to get the Government to construct a permanent bridge to connect the city with Carrington,…

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Train Traffic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 5

THE railway traffic to and from the metropolis yesterday was so heavy that almost all the long distance trains had to be run in double divisions, and even then it was…

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Interview With a Train Robber

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 12

OLINER CURTIS PERRY, the daring train robber, who was captured after an exciting races with locomotives, said in an interview at the Lyons…

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CYCLING. Northern Road Record

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 7

J. Bradbury, the Northern safety champion, left Newcastle by the 3 15 train for West Maitland on Wednesday afternoon, with the intention of establishing a road…

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The Merewether Tramway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 April 1892 · page 8

MESSRS. Walters and Smith, the contractors for the Merewether tramway, are making excellent progress with the work. The recent rains, and a considerable difficulty…

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Fatality on the Railway. a Sailor Killed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 April 1892 · page 5

ON Saturday evening, shortly after 11 o'clock, a goods train from Sydney ran over a man near the Cardiff station. The driver of the engine states that he saw the man for…

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The Train Traffic

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

On account of the Easter volunteer encampment felling through this year, the railway authorities were quite prepared for decreased passenger traffic yesterday. The…

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The Railway Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 April 1892 · page 4

MR. GEORGE C. MARTIN, district coroner, held an inquest at the Clarendon Hotel, Hunter-street West, at 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon, on the body of Andrew M'Kenzie,…

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