Adamstown. New Lambton Road
On Monday the District Road, Superintendent, accompanied by Mr. Edden, M.P., and Alderman Croudace, Mayor of New Lambton, and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1893
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Plattsburg Tram Accommodation
Now that the passenger trains have ceased to run to Wallsend, increased accommodation will be required from the tram service. Foremost amongst those should be a parcel van to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Longest Coal Train
A TRAIN of 225 loaded four-wheeled coal cars passed over the Lehigh Valley Railroad (U.S.) a few days ago. It was the longest and heaviest…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →News From Broken Hill. Intense Heat. The Unemployed and Railway Passes. Broken Hill
TO-DAY it was again intensely hot, the thermometer registering as high as 114deg in the shade. About 8.30 to-night a heavy thunderstorm broke over the town, and the lightning…
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THE necessity for altering the recently-erected booking office on the outside platform at the Newcastle Railway Station is manifest to the public, and the work should be carried…
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AT about 7 o'clock yesterday morning an empty coal train met with an accident when proceeding to the Burwood Extended Colliery. Upon reaching the first points near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Changes in the Railway Service. Departure of the Divisional Engineer
THE numerous friends of Mr. E. M. Halligan, the divisional engineer for the Northern railways, will be sorry to hear that he is shortly to be transferred to Sydney. On account of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parliament Tuesday, 7Th February. Legislative Assembly. Expenditure on Roads and Bridges, Another Hostile Motion. Ways and Means. SYDNEY
THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4.30 p.m. Sir GEORGE DIBBS made a Ministerial statement which appears elsewhere. ANSWERS TO QUEATIONS…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Excursion
THE Railway Commissioners have arranged for the running of a specially cheap excursion train on the northern line on Wednesday, the 15th instant. It will leave Sydney at 1 p.m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fatal Accident on the Railway. Sydney
A RAILWAY accident of a terrible nature happened this morning at the old Newtown railway, station, whereby a wood and coal merchant, named William Jones, who carried on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parliament Legislative Assembly. Cost of Last General Election. The Conspiracy Laws. Dining-room Cars. Land Resumed for Railway Purposes. The Queensland Floods. Mining on Private Property. SYDNEY
AFTER our report of the proceedings in the Assembly last night bad concluded, the consideration of the Mining on Private Property Bill in committee was continued, and at 2.30…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Fatal Accident on the Railway. Inquest and Verdict. SYDNEY
AN inquest was held to-day on the body of the man William Jones, who was killed on the railway line at Newtown yesterday. Constable Henry Mitchell gave evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Workmen's Weekly Railway Tickets. Sydney
A CONCESSION to working men in search of employment has just been granted by the Railway Commissioners. It seems that a holder of a workman's weekly ticket between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident
A YOUNG man named Lewis Walters, who has for some time been employed as a ganger on the permanent way, met with a very serious accident at about 20 minutes past 10…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State of the Roads
THE recent heavy rains have been he means of showing up the weak portions of the roads of the district, and as a consequence some of them are almost impassable in places…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Lines. SYDNEY
The Railway Commissioners this afternoon received information that the railway lines have been sufficiently repaired to allow of the mail trains running to and from South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farming Industry. High Railway Freights
LONDON, Wednesday.—Mr. A. J. Mundella, President of the Board of Trade, to-day received a deputation consisting of 200 members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Slips
OWING to the exceptionally heavy rains in Queensland, a number of railway banks on the range between Ipswich and Toowoomba have slipped and caused delay to traffic. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railways
The heavy rains which fell in the northern part of the colony on Thursday and Friday did not interfere with the railways on this side of the Queensland border…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Midland Railway Company. Meeting of Bondholders
LONDON, Friday.—A meeting of the bondholders of the Midland Railway Company, West Australia, was held to-dy. Mr. Smith, who presided,…
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