Railway and Tramway Return Sydney
The return by the Railway Commissioners for the quarter ended 31st March, 1901, shows the following figures:—Railway revenue, £900,106; expenditure,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1901
548 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 28
Railway Deviation Work. an Expenditure of £70,000 in Hand
The rain during the past few days has interfered with the progress of the extensive work of deviating the Northern railway between the Adamstown tunnel and…
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LONDON, Monday.—Parties of Boers blew up the Western railway in three places between Grasspan and Belmont, and entered Belmont…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Major De Moulin's column, after scouring the district south-east of the Orange River, has brought to Aliwal North thirty…
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The great efforts that have been made during many years by the residents of the Clarence River district to promote railway communication…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Fatality Another Shunter Killed Crushed by a Buffer. An Extraordinary Coincidence
A few minutes before 7 o'clock last evening the Newcastle goods yards was the scene of another fatality, by which Shunter Martin P. Kane lost his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →International News. Imperial Parliament. Writ Against a Railway
LONDON, Wednesday.—The House of Commons last night, by 210 votes to 202, rejected the bill of the London and North-Western Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Railway Fatality. Inquest and Verdict. How the Accident Happened
An inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Martin Kane, the railway shunter who was killed on Wednesday evening, was held…
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The sincere sorrow felt for Mrs. Kane by the death of her son Martin Kane, the shunter who was killed on the railway near the Newcastle Station on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Recent Railway Fatalities
Sir,—The railway fatalities, in which Shunter Kane, also his brother, lost their lives within a week of each other should I think cause the Railway Commissioners…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ELECTRIC v. Steam Railways
There is a general idea that electric energy will at an early date supersede the steam locomotive of our main lines of railways. The attention of electrical…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydenham Railway Accident. Sydney
The City Coroner resumed his inquest to-day into the death of Herbert Henry Darnley, who was killed in the railway accident near Sydenham station on February…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Commandant Kriutzinger burned a supply train near Stormberg, but later sustained losses at Drietfonzein…
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The work of constructing the loop-line at the railway station, where some 40 men are working, is proceeding at a rapid pace, with the exception of the crane and its…
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Sir.—Who is responsible for that abomination now being erected on the eastern end of the Newcastle railway platform, with its…
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The Railway Commissioners report that the train traffic to Melbourne in connection with the opening of the Federal Parliament has been exceedingly heavy. From…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—There are now 15,000 troops between Komatipoort and Pretoria, a distance of 312 miles, and these find it difficult to protect…
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Sir,—I has pleased to see that letter, In your issue of this morning, complaining of the high-handed manner in which our precious Railway Commissioners deal with…
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Sir,—Will you allow me to draw the attention of the powers that be, besides the general public, to the disgraceful state of a portion of the road…
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LONDOS, Thursday.—Owing to the Emperor of Corea disapproving the arrangements with a Franco-Russian syndicate for the railway loan, the…
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