Dunmore Bridge
Information has been received to the effect that the Dunmore Bridge has fallen into a condition which will necessitate a suspension of all traffic, and the carrying out of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1896
388 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 20
Trains and Trams
The traffic by train and tram suffered considerably by the threatening aspect of the morning, most people having postponed their arrangements before the day broke clear and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parliament. Tuesday, May 26Th. Legislative Assembly. The Reid-Tozer Incident. Explanation by a Labour Member. Provision for the Parkes Family. Fires in Coal Ships. The North Shore Bridge. Sydney
THE SPEAKER took the chair at 4 30 p.m. PERSONAL EXPLANATION. Mr. THOMAS (member for Alma, Broken Hill) made a personal explanation concerning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Selling Railway Tickets
At the Central Police Court George Road, 25, Mark Reed, 29, and Robert Dial, 33, were each charged with selling a railway ticket without being authorised by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Wednesday. Tramway Extension to Adamstown
MESSRS. EDDEN AND THOMSON, Ms.P., to-day, at the request of the Adamstown Council, interviewed the Minister for Works to urge upon him the necessity of the tramline being…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrible Catastrophy. Collapse of a Bridge. Sixty-two Lives Lost
LONDON, Thursday.—A fatal accident involving great loss of life is reported from British Columbia, where a bridge collapsed while a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Soudan Expedition. the Military Railway
LONDON, Thursday.—The work of laying the railway from Wady Halfa is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible. The lines now in position…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Correspondence. Our Trams. to the Editor
SIR,—It was with pleasure that I read a few days since of the many recent improvements in our tram service, and I have since been an eye-witness to the changes that have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Road Grant
Mr. J. Gillies, M.P., has received a communication from the Public Works Department, in answer to representations made by him, intimating that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maitland District. Increased Road Vote
At the last meeting of the Maitland District Council it was decided to apply to the Minister for Works to raise the schedule of M'Clymont's Swamp-road to second-class,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CABLEGRAMS. The Czar's Coronation. the Great Free Feast at Moscow. Frantic Rush for the Booths. Hundreds of Peasants Trampled to Death. Appalling Scenes. Distress of the Czar. Award to the Bereaved Families
LONDON, Sunday.—A fearful calamity, resulting in appalling loss of life, has taken place at Moscow. In connection with the public…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria Bridge
The contractor for the erection of the new Victoria Bridge is now putting the finishing tonches on his work, and the structure will be opened fort traffic to-morrow. The public…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Extension to Walgett
NEWCASTLE people will have to be up and doing again with reference to the extension of the railway to Walgett. At the latter town the other day a meeting was held for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Thursday. Hamilton Roads
MR. GRIFFITH, M.P., introduced to the Minister for Works to-day a deputation consisting of Messrs. Edden, Fogan, Thompson, and Watkins Ms.P., and Alderman Keddie…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Traffic with the Transvaal Action Against the Capetown Trade
LONDON, Friday.—The Transvaal Government and the Netherlands Railway Company are making great efforts to obtain control of the…
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At 10 o'clock on Saturday forenoon the new Victoria bridge was informally opened to traffic, and the circumstance was made the occasion of a happy little meeting. Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Road Grant
At the last meeting of the Maitland District Council attention was drawn by Councillor Grant to the condition of a point near the school house, on the road leading from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Affairs at Buluwayo. Railway Communication
LONDON, Friday.—Mr. Cecil Rhodes, chairman of the British South African Company, has stated that he fully expects that Buluwayo will be in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Telegrams. New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. the Sydney Railway Extension
THE Premier states that the Government intend shortly to submit to the Assembly a motion to refer the proposal to extend the railway from Redfern into the city to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland. Brisbane, Wednesday. Railway Reform
The Government have decided to send Mr. Stanley, Chief Engineer of Railways, shortly to America to examine and report upon the latest system of construction and maintenance…
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