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Railways, roads & transport, 1887

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The Windsor Railway Accident. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 8

The inquest concerning the deaths of the persons who lost their lives by the railway accident at Windsor on the 11th instant, was continued to-day at the Atheniuum. There was a large attendance of the…

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Inquest. Killed on the Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 6

The City Coroner held an inquest yesterday morning at the South Sydney Morgue relative to the death of Henry Baker, an elderly man, who received fatal injuries on the railway line…

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The Victorian Railway Accident. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The inquest on the Windsor railway accident was advanced another stage to day. The examination of the youth Blackburn was concluded, but nothing new…

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The Railway Association. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 May 1887 · page 5

ORANGE, Thursday.--A general meeting of the Orange branch of the Railway Employes Association was held at the guards' barracks, Orange, on Wednesday evening, at which there…

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A Railway for Luddenham

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 4

A public meeting was held on Saturday evening, May 2lst, at Luddenham, 120 persons being present, for the purpose of advocating railway extension to Luddenham…

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The Nepean Times. Published Every Saturday Morning. Saturday, May 28, 1887. Railway to Luddenham

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 4

The public meeting held at Luddenham on Saturday night last was unanimous with regard to the want of some better means of…

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Railway Accident in Victoria

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 5

Quite a number of persons during the late elections expressed opinions that our railways were badly managed, and that we should adopt the Victorian system…

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The Victorian Railway Accident. Alarming Disclosures

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The inquest on the persons killed in the Windsor railway accident was resumed this morning. Blackburne, who is a mere boy, gave evidence with…

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Shocking Death in a Railway Tunnel. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Murrurundi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 12

An inquest was held this afternoon, before Mr. [?] W. Parker, coroner, and a jury of 12, at Doughboy Hollow on the body of a woman named Kate Coyle, who was killed yesterday evening in the Liverpool Range tunnel by a…

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Proposed Opening of the Railway to Wollongong. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 12

An influential meeting was held in the Town Hall this evening, to take steps for the celebration of the Queen's Jubilee and the opening of the railway. In spite of the bad weather the attendence was large. Mr. Woodward,…

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The Windsor Railway Accident. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Own Correspondent.) Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 12

The evidence taken to-day at the inquest on the persons killed in the Windsor railway accident was of an interesting though not a sensational character. A boy named Peglar stated that, seeing the ordinary train…

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The Proposed Tarago-Braidwood Railway

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 1122

A meeting of the residents of Braidwood was held in Wallace's Hall, Braidwood, on Monday evening last, to take into consideration the replies recently given by the Colonial Treasurer to Mr. Sydney Smith, M.L.A…

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The Windsor Railway Accident

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 1122

The inquest on the persons killed in the Windsor Railway accident was resumed on Wednesday. Mr. Gedge, the Prahran station-master, put in the correspondence which had passed between himself and the…

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The Illawarra Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 5

WOLLONGONG, Friday.-- Much interest is being taken in the arrangements that are being, made for the opening of the third section of the Illawarra railway here, from Coalcliff to…

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Mount Gambier-narracoorte Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday.--His Excellency the Governor, with the Chief Secretary and the Commissioner for Public Works, will leave for the south-east on Wednesday, June 15, to open…

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The Victorian Railway Accident. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The inquiry into the Windsor railway accident was to-day advanced a further stage, A lad named Pegler deposed to having noticed the ordinary train stuck up…

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Agitating for a Railway

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 May 1887 · page 11

An influential meeting of the Narrabri-Walgett Railway League has been held, and the matter of urging the measure has been placed in the hands of the…

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The Illawarra Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 May 1887 · page 3

The members of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, at the invitation of Messrs. Smith and Rowe, contractors for the section, paid a visit of inspection on Saturday to the works now being executed on the Illawarra…

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Killed on the Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 May 1887 · page 5

DUBBO, Saturday.-- A ganger on the Western railway line named Richard Thomas was in[?]ed early this morning near the Ponto Railway Station between Wellington and Dubbo…

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Complaint Against the Express Train. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 May 1887 · page 5

Sir,—Will you kindly use your influence to have the intercolonial travellers' complaint against the express train, remedied? Hitherto the express train was comfortable, and the travelling, public were studied, and were grateful…

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