Lord Salisbury on Railways
At the forty-first annual dinner of the Railway Benevolent Institution in [?] recently. Lord Salisbury spoke as follows “During the last half-century…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
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Half Holiday V. Railway Employees
This match was played on Wednesday and rather gave the weekly holiday people a shock, by reason of the closeness of the contest. The result was a win for the Half…
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A little girl named Annie Gunning, whilst returning from school at Balmain yesterday, was knocked down by a tram, and carried 25 yards. She miraculously escaped with a few…
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At the [?]vitation of Mr and Mrs. M'Phee, of Ford's Bridge, a very representative gathering of discribe residents assembled on Saturday evening the 15th inst., the…
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The tramway strike in Ohio continues. Another train car has been destroyed by dynamite. An ex-convict arrested with seventy-five pounds of dynamite in his possession. He is…
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The western mail train was again on fire on Saturday. When within four or fives miles of Summer Vale, which is the junction where the up train meets the down mail,…
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Mr. Chadwick was probably surprised on his visit to Walgett, to find that the railway league would not help him in the matter of extension from Narrabri…
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A Coonabarabran petition is being prepared asking Parliament not to pass the Dubbo to Coonomble railway proposal…
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A railway collision has occurred near Paris. Ten persons were killed and ten injured…
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Mr. Chad wick the Newcastle HERALD’S commissioner has returned from Walgett via Narrabri, and has commenced in the HERALD a well written description of his…
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Two express excursion trains collided near Paris yesterday, owing to a storm obscuring the signals. 17 persons were killed and 73 wounded, chiefly women and…
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A passenger car on the electric railway fell over Skelton Heights at Bridge Port, America, yesterday. Forty-six persons were killed…
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A large and influential deputation last night interviewed the Minister for Works and requested that the proposed railway from Narrabri to…
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THE early afternoon passenger train from Sydney to Wollongong was derailed on Saturday, near Clifton, owing to a land-slip. The engine and two carriages wore derailed and…
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Last week, signalman, Henry James Myles at Ashfield Station, reported that he had seen a man (whom he described) doing something to the line and the man,…
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With the advent of every [?], complaints have been made [?] the running of [?] from Bourke to the [?] climates. It has been [?] that same…
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Tue report ot the Public Works Committee recommends that Cconamble be connected by railway by the Dubbo route, but states a possible improvement would be…
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THE following is the abridged report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Public Works on the proposal of the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Dubbo to…
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The Public Works Committee report recommending the construction of the line from Dubbo to Coonamble, gives the estimated cost as £207,285, being at the…
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THE report presented to Parliament last week by the Public Works Committee on the Dubbo-Coonamble railway proposal is a lengthy document of twelve foolscap…
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