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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
393 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 20
IT seems that the delay in carrying out the long-contemplated improvements at the Newcastle station has been due not so much to the opposition of the council, re the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Patents have been applied for recently in several countries by a Dunedin man, Mr A. M'Gill, builder, for an important invention in connection with tramways for passenger…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IT is stated that Mr. W. R. Rowe, ex-Chief Inspector of the Auditor-General's Department, has been appointed traffic auditor in the Railway Department, vacant by the death…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday.—The Russian Budget for 1897 provides for an extensive railway construction. A sum of 129,000,000 roubles (about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →According to information derived from a well-informed source (says Reuter's Moscow correspondent) the following is the present state of the preparations for the building of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →John Boyce, a shunter, summoned William Fears, a fireman, for having assaulted him at Newcastle on the night of the 6th…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The progress of Russia is clearly demonstrated by the fact that the budget for the present year devotes no less a sum than the equivalent of £13,000,000 to the construction…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The general manager for the Burwood Company, Mr. T. Croudace, has almost completed the work of constructing a siding and platform at the colliery to accommodate the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In consequence of the numerous accidents that have taken place on the Government road between Adamstown and Charlestown, the local municipal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN connection with the Pasturage Reserve drainage scheme negotiations are going on for the resumption of land between Broadmeadow and New Lambton for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR GRIFFITH, M P, has been informed by the Works Department that £100 has been granted for expenditure on the Ash Island-road and £30 on the Mosquito Island-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →As already briefly mentioned, the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway was opened last month. It runs not along the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. KIRKALDIE, the chief traffic manager of the Railway department, and Mr. Thow, the chief mechanical engineer, yesterday visited Newcastle, and inquired into certain matters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For a long time past members of Parliament have travelled free on the railways without questions being openly or secretly asked as to the nature of the business which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THT workmen's train commenced to run to Burwood Colliery on Tuesday morning, and it is needless to state that the men enjoy the ride home after a hard day's work. Though…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The residents here are highly displeased with the manner in which they have been treated in the matter of the recent road grant. They consider that they should have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, Thursday.—The opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway by the Czar and Czarina of Russia will be made the occasion of lavish…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The East Maitland-Morpeth road is in a very bad state, and complaints regarding the thoroughfare are being made by numbers of persons resident in the locality. The greater…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, Monday.—President Kruger has stated that it is necessary to encourage the construction of railways in the Transvaal because the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As previously stated great dissatisfaction exists owing to the Dudley miners not being allowed to ride in the train that conveys the workmen to…
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