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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
548 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 28
The whole of the contracts for the past year in connection with the local roads department are now practically completed at Is cost running into the substantial sum of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mayor of Hamilton (Alderman S. Donn) and Alderman Arthur waited upon Mr. Norman Grant the Road Superintendent, at the Customs House on Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. George Hardy, the chairman of the Young-road trust, has been notified by the Under-Secretary for Works that the sum of £300 has been placed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The following is a short description of the arrangements about to be carried out at the proposed new central railway station. The rails will be brought into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The report of Mr. C. Y. O'Connor, the Engineer-in-Chief of the Western Australian Railways, on the proposed transcontinental railway from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →For years past the condition of this connecting link between the residents of Wallsend and Plattsburg and the main northern highway has been a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir John Forrest entered the Federal Parliament with a mission. It was to get a railway built between his State and South Australia. In comparison…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The representatives of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association also waited on the Railway Commissioners this afternoon, to urge for a number of alterations in regard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Intimation has been received that Mr. W. T. Dick, M.P., has obtained a grant of £60 to be expended on the road branching from the main road at Fullerton Cove, about 6¾…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rudyard Kipling's latest war poem, inspired by incidents at Blood River Bridge.—From the London "Times." Sudden the desert changes—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →As many of the tramway employees of Newcastle as could assembled at the Shortland Hotel last night to welcome home Trooper Archie Nelmes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday.—Lord Kitchener reports that Commandant Scheepers' commandos on the 21st instant captured and burned a train…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the Legislative Assembly last night, Mr. R. A. Pirce, M.P. for Gloucester, gave notice of his intention to move a resolution affirming the desirability of constructing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—The casualties in the train captured by Scheeper near Beaufort were chiefly Yeomanry and South African Horse…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday.—Seventeen of the steel cables supporting the Brooklyn Bridge, New York, yielded, and some of the girders at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The conference of North Coast delegates, which met at Kempsey on Wednesday to consider the North Coast railway extension, were formally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The workman is splendidly catered for by railways on the Continent, as is shown in a Parliamentary paper just issued. The British Ambassadors in Belgium, France,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →At the Hamilton Mechanics' Institute on Saturday night the members of the Locomotive Engine-drivers, Firemen, and Cleaners' Association (Newcastle branch) assembled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Herbert Williams pleaded guilty to attempting to enter a railway carriage whilst in motion; also to crossing the railway at an unauthorised…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In reference to the speeches made at the Railway Enginemen's dinner at Newcastle on Saturday night, the Chief Railway Commissioner says that…
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