Railway and Tram Accidents
ON Monday night about 9 o'clock the body of a man horribly mutilated was found on the railway up-track a little the other side of Burwood. The remains were brought to town by the special…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1883
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Our Tramways. To the Editor
SIR,—As a resident of Waterloo, and therefore an interested party, I await with no little concern to hear from our new Minister for Works something more definite as to the cause of our tramways not paying. It is…
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A meeting of members of the railway league was held at Wolumla on Thursday. There was a full attendance, representing Bega, Candelo, Panbula, and Wolumla. It transpired that the survey is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tramway Bubble. To the Editor
SIR,—Under the above heading I noties an article in your issue of January 29, and as I have just returned from a 12 months visit to the United States, I am able, from my own personal observation, to endorse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Overland Railway to Perth, West Australia. To the Editor
SIR,—Of all the scheme that have been laid before the public for some time post is the one recently announced in the " Evening News." I refer to Mr. Anthony Hordern's admirable scheme for a large…
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THE extension of the Great Northern Railway from Uralla to Armidale was formally opened on Thursday by the Hon. II. Copeland, Minister for Public Works. About 150 portions left Sydney…
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Mr. H. Shiell, J.P., City Coroner, held an inquest at the Commercial Hotel, Elizabeth-street, on Tuesday, on the body of Timothy Donnelly, which was found on Monday mutilated condition. Mr. John Cobb, locomotive foreman,…
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The extension of the Great Northern Railway from Uralla to Armidale was formally opened to-day by the Hon. H. Copeland, Minister for Public Works. About 150 persons left Sydney by the steamer Maitland, last night, to…
Continued on Trove, page 232 →The Dredge-men and the Railway Porters. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph
Sir,--I noticed with surprise and pain, in a sub-leader in the Herald of the 26th instant, a reflection on Mr. Cameron's motion for the claims of the dredge-men, also reflecting most insultingly on the claims of the…
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IN reference to the accident to Roland G[?]iffin Burgin, third son of Mr. H. W. Burgin, Church street (briefly referred to in our last) we learn that tho unfortunate young man, who…
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IN response to a deputation asking for a reduction of tram fares charged to the Glebe, Mr. Copeland, Minister for Works, said he found, as a matter of fact, that the trams were not…
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A deputation consisting of Messrs. Melville, Fletcher, Ellis, and Tighe, waited on the Minister of Public Works last weak to urge the claims of a tramway from Newcastle to…
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Mr. COMBES, without notice, asked the Minister for Works whether he was aware that some trams passed the usual stopping places at intersections of streets without stopping, to the great danger of the…
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ON Wednesday evening a Ministerial party, consisting of the Hon. H. Copeland, Minister for Public Works, and the Hon. J. S. Farnell, Minister for Lands, accompanied by several members…
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A MEETING to consider the advisability of petitioning the Government to extend the railway from Redfern to the Circular Quay, was held last Tuesday at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street. Mr. John Harris,…
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AN accident of a shocking nature happened on Monday evening on the suburban line near Burwood, where a man named Timothy Donnelly was run over and cut to pieces by a passenger train. The body, in…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Railway Mismanagement. LITHGOW
There is at present one of those bitter outcries which occur at intervals among the miners for want of coal trucks. Sometimes there are coal trucks, and sometimes not. The men are idle…
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The dead body of a young man named John Cottington was found this morning near the railway line, not far from Gillespie's tannery, where he lived, being employed there. It is thought the…
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According to a Melbourne correspondent O'Leary, the long-distance pedestrian who has just arrived from the States, says that some few months ago he met George Francis Train in New York. Train was…
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