The Deniliquin and Moama Railway
DENILIQUIN, Thursday.—An adjourned meeting of the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was held yesterday afternoon. Mr. R. Burrowes occupied the chair. A very Satisfactory report…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1878
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Railway Accidents. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—Since the late fatal accident occurred on our Western line, railway accidents have been the subject of talk. I observed casually in a paper sent to me, viz., Public Opinion, London, December 1, 1877, an article, which I subjoin for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Saturday Excursion Train to Springwood. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—The above train being very largely patronised, there is, of course, a great demand for second-class tickets during the half-hour preceding its departure. As there is only the one pigeon-hole for the sale of these tickets, there is…
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TASMANIA (Hobart Town), Thursday.—Correspondence between the Government and the manager of the main line railway has been published. It shows that Mr. Grant wrote to the Government on…
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This train will run west to Bowenfels on SATURDAY, the 9th instant, leaving Sydney at 8 a.m. The Treasury, New South Wales, 15th January, 1378. PROVISION CONTRACTS.—LUNATIC…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heavy Floods in the Campbelltown District.—the Railway Damaged and Traffic Suspended
Within the last few days the Campbelltown district has been visited with two or three of the heaviest storms of rain known for many yean. At Liverpool the George River was quite low at 1 o'clock yesterday…
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THE Hon. John Sutherland, Minister for Works, laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday afternoon, a series of papers and correspondence relative to railway traflic management, and more especially to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Government Railways. Australian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition. Ballarat, Victoria, 15Th February, 1878
PACKAGES intended for competition at the above Exhibition, and addressed "Secretary Industrial Exhibition. Ballarat," will be received at all stations up to and on SATURDAY", the 9th February, and conveyed FREE OF…
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THE Coroner's jury at the inquest in connection with the late fatal railway accident added to their verdict a rider to the effect that "the authorities should give to those in charge…
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We give on the fifth page of our supplement a view of the locality of the fatal accident on the Great Western Railway. The inquest on the bodies of those killed by the…
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WE have received two letters this week conveying complaints which merit attention from the railway department. One correspondent states that whilst…
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AFTER the lamentable accident which occurred on Emu Plains on Wednesday night, there is of course a general expectation that more effectual precautions will henceforth be taken to prevent the…
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All along the railway line the paddocks are swamped, and in several instances loss of cattle is reported. Houses built on low-lying ground are surrounded by water. The permanent way has sustained…
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THIS week we present our readers with an illustration, engraved from a sketch by our special artist, of the scene at Emu Plains of the most appalling railway accident that has ever happened in…
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Mn. J. Rowland, Division Engineer of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway, writes to the Railroad Gazette:—"It may be interesting to your professional readers to see this report of the most…
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A NUMEROUSLY attended meeting was held at the Mount Murchison Hotel, Wilcannia, on Friday evening, for the purpose of taking steps to endeavour to get the Government to construct tanks or wells on the Paroo Road between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The South Head Road Trust. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—It was my misfortune, yesterday, to have to ride in a vehicle along a part ot the old South Head Road, a part of the new South Head Road, and along the cross road between the two, and I think anyone who has lately had a…
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On Wednesday afternoon, during the process of trucking sheep at the Bathurst railway station, a little boy aged eight years, a son of Mr. Barnett, an employee at Denny's Foundry, was amongst the…
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The seventh half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was held at the Company's offices, at Deniliquin, on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 6th instant. The meeting had been previously…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Waverley Omnibus Traffic and the South Head Road Trust. to the Editor of the Herald
SIR,—In your issue of to-day appear, side by side, notices under both these headings. In your remarks upon the Waverley and Bondi omnibuses you say, " Taken at the best, very little em bo said in their favour beyond this, that…
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