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ADELAIDE, SATURDAY.-A dreadful burning accident took place on Friday evening, in one of the carriages attached to the Broken Hill train. The Hon. J. G…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The two young men who left for England by the Orient last Saturday, as railway cadets, initiate a system foreshadowed by the Commissioners some months ago. The move is undoubtedly a…
Continued on Trove, page 124 →A railway accident has occurred at Sydney, a settlement on the Union Pacific Railroad, in Nebraska Territory, U. S. The train caught fire, and the whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 126 →MR. FRANK FARNELL, M.L.A., has received a letter from the railway commissioners stating that they would not be justified in constructing a railway siding at Toongabbie,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE, Saturday.--The inquiry into the railway accident which occurred at Oakleigh was commenced yesterday. Counsel is engaged for all parties, and the inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Friday.--Donald M'Carthy, a railway laborer, was cut to pieces at Richmond station this morning. He was working on the line when the Oakleigh express dashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Abbott, Molesworth and Hawken, Ms.P., attended on Thursday afternoon at a combined meeting of the Newtown and Macdonaldtown councils, who assembled in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CROOKWELL, Friday.—The delay in calling for tenders for the construction of the railway from Goulburn to Crookwell is causing dissatisfaction amongst the residents here, A large…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--Indignation is expressed at the action of the Railway Commissioners in accepting the offer of a West Australian firm to supply 10,000 sleepers at is 5 12d each, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,--I do not know whether the notice in your issue of December 23, 1889, that the Commissioners were issuing excursion tickets at 2d and 1d per mile from all stations 50 miles and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ADELAIDE, Friday.--A terrible accident happened to-night to Mr. J. G. Ramsay, M.L.C. He was coming to Adelaide in the north train, being alone in a first-class compartment, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →About 8 o'clock this morning a navvy named Daniel M'Carthy was engaged with others working on the Richmond line, when a special from Melbourne to Oakleigh came up…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Once more the important subject of facilitating the carriage of produce to market by means of cheap and light railways has come to the front. For years it has been urged that, owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →The recent visit, of the Railway Commissioners to Camden and their inspection of the Campbelltown and Camden Tramway should be productive of agreeable results to the public. In the first…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →To compare a small event with a big one, it may be said of the Penrith Tragedy, as it was remarked of the Battle of Navarine, that it was very…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →KIAMA, Saturday.—An accident occurred at the Derniping siding, at the Rombo Stone Quarries, on Friday evening, which nearly caused fatal results. A ballast train was at this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DURING the course of an interview with Mr. W. Pullman, of the Pullman Palace Co., the other day and a representative of the Melbourne STANDARD the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Monday. -- James Horton, butcher, while on horseback in the city on Saturday, collided with a tramcar and was thrown to the ground and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHNNY BEEHAG,. a bright-looking little fellow, and son of an ex-alderman, was amusing himself shying stones promiscuously round in Bay-street. One of tho missiles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.--Mr. J. G. Ramsay, M.L.C., who was burned by the explosion or breakage of a lamp in a compartment of the northern train at Stockport on Friday night,…
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