Trams and Trains
There being no attractions of any signifieance at Maitland or the other surrounding districts yesterday, the holiday traffic was more than maintained in so far as the trains…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1896
388 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 20
Road Improvements
The East Maitland Borough Council employees have within the last week or two made a number of minor improvements in the thoroughfares of the municipality,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Disaster in South Africa. Thirty-two Persons Killed. Fifty Seriously Injured
LONDON, Monday.—A shocking railway disaster has occurred in South Africa. The mail train from Johannesburg to Durban became derailed at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Friday. the Cable Tram Accident
THE lady who was injured on the cable tram yesterday has been identified as Mrs. Shearston, mother of the Rev. T. S. Shearston. The lady resides at Rushcutters Bay. She is…
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During the half-year ending 31st ult. the Roads Office at East Maitland gave out 36 contracts for general road and bridge work and two for the supply of coal at ferries…
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The demands of the residents of Rothbury and Allendale for the granting of a sum of money to cover the cost of repairing the thoroughfare between the two centre have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maitland District. the Farley Road
A FEW weeks ago the resident engineer accepted a tender for the reducing of the grade of the Wollombi-road, a distance of 17 chains from the Farley Bridge in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Selling Railway Tickets. a Fine of £15. Sydney
THE Railway Commissioners are determined to put down the traffic extensively carried on in Sydney of the unauthorized sale of railway tickets. At the Central Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tramway Accidents in Sydney. Sydney
Two tramway accidents took place yesterday, one being fatal. A motor and two cars attached was returning from Bondi to Sydney last night, and when in Oxford-atrest a man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reduced Railway Fares. Escaping from the Heat. Sydney
A deputation comprising Messrs. Willis, Price, Waddell, Collins, Millen, Ashton, Carroll, Hassall, Perry, and Crick, M's.L.A., to-day requested the Railway Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Uneven Roads
Although several portions of High-street, West Maitland, have recently been improved by the laying down of new material the thoroughfare is not yet in the condition that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Painful Railway Accident
A PAINFUL railway accident happened to a guard, of a train, named Charles Wills, at the Wallsend Junction yesterday, day, which necessitated his removal to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Outrage at Morpeth
A diabolical act was perpetrated on Tuesday night between 9 and 10 o'clock which jeopar[?]ised the lives of about 15 people. The train came in as usual at about 9.15 p.m., the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Accident
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the Northern line between Werris Creek and Tamworth last evening. A ganger named Potter was riding a railway tricycle when the down train,…
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So far the West Maitland Borough Council have not received a reply from the Railway Commissioners to their lest communication on the subject of a reduction in the fares…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Road Grant
Some little time ago Mr. J. Gillies, M.P., was asked by the Pokolbin Progress Committee to use his influence with the Government to grant a sum of money to assist in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Accidents in the United Kingdom
A SUMMARY of accident and casualties which have been reported to the Board of Trade as having occurred upon railways in the United Kingdom…
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WILLIAM POTTER, the ganger who was overtaken by the Northern express while riding a railway tricycle between Worris Creek and Tamworth on Thursday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Concessions
In response to representations made by him on the question of procuring cheap fares from Maitland and Newcastle districts to Now England during the present hot weather,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trams and Trains
The traffic on the tram lines was very good yesterday, particularly in the afternoon, when a large number of people came in from the suburbs…
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