Tram Accidents
TRAMWAY accidents are now becoming of such common occurrence that, unless they are attended with loss of life, they fail to excite more than a passing comment. That the blundering system of tramway…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1882
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A Railway Meeting. [By Electric Telegraph.] Coonamble
A. LARGE and influential meeting of residents of this town and distinct was held last evening in the Mechanics' Institute, for the purpose of agitating for a line of railway to connect the…
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We are informed that it is at last definitely pressed to open the lines of tramway to Glebe, "Glebe Point, and Forest Ledge on the 15th instant, as previously announced in this journal. It is also stated…
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The cry at the hospital is "still they come," and if the tramway accidents keep on at their present pace the new building will sot be nearly large enough to accommodate the victims. The country is being…
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James Cricker (28), acting as clerk to Mr. John Tait, and residing at 49 Bathurst street, was conveyed to the hospital at half-past 10 o'clock on Saturday night by Constable Dunlop, of No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Orange and Molong Railway. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In your issue of the 29th July I observe a letter from Mr. J. P. Abbott, in which he complains of the delay in the calling of tenders for the construction of the Great Northern Railway from Homebush to Waratah, and fails…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Accident. Narrow Esgape of General Grant
New York, June 29.—The express train from Long Branch to New York, consisting of one Pullman car, one smoking carriage, and four ordinary passenger carriages, ran off line while crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram Accidents at the Same Spot. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,—On Saturday an accident happened opposite the public school at Waverley, where there is a curve. At this curve a child was killed, two men were [?]…
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LONDON, August 9.—The railroad between Alexandria and Cairo has been partially destroyed for military purposes…
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Sir,—I have read your leading article of 27th July, touching upon the question of a railway line along the North Coast from Morpeth to Grafton, endeavouring to show its superiority over a railway line from Grafton to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shocking Railway Accident Near Adelaide. [By Telegraph.] Adelaide
A terrible railway accident happened this morning at Woodville station on the Port Adelaide line, by which a lad named Hamphris, 11 years old, was killed. The whole train passed over the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deputations. Queanbeyan District Roads
A deputation, consisting of the Hon. L. F. De Salis, Mr. Thomas Rutledge, and Mr. Sale, on behalf of the Roads and Lands Association of Qneanbeyan, waited on the Minister for "Works to-day asking that…
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Mr. Angus Cameron, M.P., has received the following official communication from the Commissioner for Railways, which has been sour[?] handed us for publication.— "Department of Public Works,…
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A deputation, consisting of T. Rutledge. M.L.A., T. Power, F. Campbell, and J. Bull waited this morning upon Mr. Lackey to utge the necessity of proceeding with the railway from Goulburn to…
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A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Pigrott, M.L.A.; Henson, M,L.A.; Terry, M.L.C.; Mitchell, M.L.A.; A. Barden, and Dr. Vause, interviewed the Minister for Works on the question of the delay in the construction…
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After a rest of three or four days without an accident, the Sydney tramway system has again asserted its right to be considered one of the most scientific engines of destruction to peaceful life and limb—at…
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The Walgett Mail states that on Saturday, July 29 a meeting was held at Victoria Ball, Walgett, for the purpose of taking steps to urge upon the Government the advantages of railway extension to Walgett. The mover of the first…
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Yesterday, a deputation, consisting of the Hon. L. F. de Salis, M.L.C., Mr. T. Rutledge, M.L.A., and Mr. Sale, waited as a deputation upon the Hon. Minister for Mines to ask that the following roads in the…
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Messrs. L. F. De Salis, M.L.C., T. Rutledge, M.L.A., and Sale, representing the Road and Land Association of Queanbeyan, waited upon the Minister for Mines (Dr. Renwick), for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trial of a Combined Tramway Motor and Car
Considerable notice was attracted yesterday by the trial of the combined motor and car recently imported from Kitson and Co., of Leeds, by the Government for use on the tramways of this city The trial…
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