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Railways, roads & transport, 1874

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Extraordinary Outrage in a Railway Carriage

Evening News · Saturday 26 December 1874 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

A murderous outrage was perpetrated on Saturday evening, on the South-eastern railway, between Charing Cross and Cannon-street, London. A young gentleman employed by a firm in the City, and…

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Latest Intelligence. Reuter's Telegrams to Australian Associated Press. Frightful Railway Accident. London, December 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 December 1874 · page 4

AN express train on the Great Western Railway left the railks near Skipton. The carriages were precipatated into a canal, and thirty person[?] were killed…

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Shocking Fatal Railway Accident

Evening News · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 2

TO-DAY, as the 1 o'clock passenger train from the Southern line ran into the Sydney Railway station, an accident occurred which resulted fatally. It appears that as the train approached…

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Victorian Railways

Evening News · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 4
Also in Empire

THE following is a brief summary of the annual report of the Minister of Railways in Victoria, as laid upon the table of the Assembly, just before the prorogation:—…

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The Railway. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 5

SIR,—On Saturday afternoon (Boxing-Day) I went down to the Five Dock platform, intending to come in to Sydney by the train that, according to the recently altered railway time-table, ought to call at the platform at 5.56 p. m. [?]…

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Fires.—railway Engines. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 December 1874 · page 2

SIR,—It may not be out of place to call the attention of the Commissioner for Railways to the necessity of causing a screen to be used by the various locomotives on the Southern and Western lines of railway…

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Shocking Fatal Railway Accident

Empire · Wednesday 30 December 1874 · page 3

YESTERDA, as the 1 o'clock passenger train from the Southern line ran into the Sydney Railway station, an accident occured which resulted fatally. It appears that as the train approached…

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Telegrams This Day Cable Messages. (Reuter's Special Telegrams.) Appaling Disasters. Burning of the Ship Cospatrick, with Loss of 460 Lives. Heartrending Details of Suffering. Shocking Railway Accidents. Upwards of 100 Persons Killed and Injured

Evening News · Thursday 31 December 1874 · page 2

[A portion of the following appeared in our Second Edition of yesterday.] LONDON, via Singapore, December 27. Received in Sydney, December 30, 5.40 p.m…

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Coroner's Court. Fatal Railway Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 December 1874 · page 2

AN inqest was hold, yesterday forenoon; by the Coroner, at his office, Hyde Park, touching the d[?] Anthony Maguire, who was killed at the Rodfern [?] Tetminus on Tuesday last…

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Dreadful Railway Accidents. London, December 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 December 1874 · page 5

A railway accident, which is almost unparalled, occurred at Shipton, on Thursday after[?]. The trian consisted of two engines and [?]een carriages. It was proceeding at the…

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