Waratah Tramway
While other suburbs have the tram service, and are only concerned in the increase thereof, the residents of Waratah, or rather of the Hanbury portion, and also…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1905
366 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 19
Railway to Afghanistan
LONDON, Monday.—The counstruction of the first section of the railway from Pesahwar, on the north-east frontier of India to the border of…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—Viscount Selby has been appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission to inquire into the Acts and regulations applying to…
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For the last two years and a-half the engine drivers and firemen on the Victorian railways have been bitterly complaining that the promises of fair play and…
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Receal announcements by American railway companies (says the "New York Tribune" of 12th June) indicate that within the next few weeks the…
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Messrs. M'Gowen, Hollis, Nielsen, and Thrower, Ms.P., waited on the Railway Commissioners to-day as a deputation from the Parliamentary Labour party to…
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At about one o'clock yesterday afternoon a child named Lilly Pearl Pitts, aged 18 months, daughter of Mr. John Pitts, living at Orchardtown, New Lambton, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Sydney Letter. the Amount of Bad Money About.—a Suggestion for the Customs House.—the Clumsiness of Many Shipping Receipts.—badly Designed Customs and Postal Documents.—standing in and on the Trams.—the Commercialism of Shorthand. Sydney
An astonishing number of bad coins are going about in this city. Some of them are bad through being over-smooth; others are bad through being battered, others…
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LONDON, Monday.—Passenger and freight trains came into collision on the railway line from New York to Chicago, between Lorain and…
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An Inquest was held at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday morning by Mr. C. Hibble, District Coroner, into the circumstances of the death of the little child,…
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Mr. Henry Charles Moore, in the July number of "Good Words," writes on the subject of London street traffic, and gives some facts about the immediate future…
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LONDON. Friday.—An excursion train approaching Norfolk, in the United States, was precipitated over a draw bridge into the Elizabeth River…
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The road race from Bathurst to Sydney, a distance 127 miles, took place on Saturday. Great interest was manifested in the event, as never since the introduction…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District "Newcastle Herald" Branch Office: High-street, West Maitland. Railway Improvements
The railway yard in the vicinity of East Greta Junction was a busy scene yesterday, when about 70 railway employees were engaged in connecting the new road…
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The jubilee of the New South Wales railways, which is to be celebrated next month, is an event which should [?]waken more than ordinary interest…
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A remarkably daring robbery of mail matter was reported this morning upon the arrival of the train which reached Sydney at 5.40 a.m. from the west…
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Further light has been thrown on tae robbery of mail bags from the western mail train by the discovery of an opened letter on the railway line near Perth, a…
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Mr. Thomas Hall, an ironmoulder, 40 years of age, was killed to-night by a motor ear in Nicholson-street, driven by Mr. Macpherson Robertson, junior,…
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The stability of the coal bridge connecting Bullock Island and the mainland has again been questioned. The matter is one which has repeatedly…
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The youthful portion of the cycling community, who have banded themselves into a juvenile club, brought, off their initial road race on Saturday afternoon…
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