Startling Railway Incident
The sexton of the Sutherland Cemetery was returning home from Sydney on Tuesday by the 2.10 p.m. train (writes our Sutherland correspondent). He occupied a seat in the second…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1901
6,238 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 250
The Railway Disaster. Meeting at Rockdale. Organising Relief for the Sufferers
A public meeting, convened by the Mayor of Rockdale (Alderman J. F. Hegerty) was held at the Town Hall, Rockdale, last evening, for the purpose of raising assistance for those injured in the recent…
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The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Chillagoe Railway and Mines Company was held today. The chairman of directors, Mr. J. S. Reid, in moving the adoption of the statements of account and…
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The Mayor (Alderman Dodd) wired to the Minister for Works to-night as follows:—"Have just been interviewed by a deputation and presented with a petition signed hy 188 men who are waiting for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria. Railway Accident at Talbot. Engine-driver's Presence of Mind. Melbourne
A serious railway accident happened at Talbot this morning. A passenger train from Ballarat to Maryborough was nearly a mile out of Talbot when one truck ran off the line. On each side of the line at…
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Messrs. Dick, Shepherd, and M[?]F[?]rlane (members of the Public Works Committee), accompanied by Mr. C. Lyne (secretary to the committee) and Mr. M'Dougal Stuart (railway engineer), commenced an…
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At the Town Hall, Rockdale, a public meeting was held last night in regard to the question of raising assistance for those who received injuries by the recent railway…
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BRAIDWOOD, Wednesday.--The sectional Public Works Committee again took evidence to-day respecting the proposed Braidwood to Tarago railway mainly regarding reefing and…
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The Camden council, introduced by Mr. Kidd, M.L.A., interviewed the Minister for Works yesterday to ask for a low level bridge over the Cowpasture River, at Macquarie…
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Mr. S. E. Lees, M.L.A., yesterday introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works (Mr. O'sullivan) to ask for Government assistance in the construction and maintenance of the road from Kingswood to…
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Speaking to a deputation which waited upon him yesterday with a request for road works, the State Minister for Works (Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan) said that in the absence of local…
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Bringelly-road, which runs through the Mulgoa, Penrith, and St. Mary's municipal areas, and is the main artery for the traffic of a large area of country, is in a deplorable…
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Mr. Kidd, M.L.A., yesterday introduced to the Minister for Works a deputation which urged the construction of a low-level bridge at Macquarie Grove Crossing (on the Cowpasture, tributary of the…
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The construction of a low level bridge at Macquarie Grove over the Cowpasture River, a tributary of the Nepean, in place of a proposed causeway, was the request of a deputation to…
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This evening, at half-past 7 o'clock, the eleventh annual meeting of the subscribers to the New South Wales Railway and Tramway Employees' Hospital and Convalescent…
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LONDON, Thursday.--General Lord Kitchener returned to the Transvaal from Northern Cape Colony immediately after he witnessed the action between some British…
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MOLONG, Thursday.-About Christmas an unsuccessful attempt was made to burst open a safe at Manildra Railway Station. This morning, at 1 o'clock, the stationmaster (Mr. Green) was…
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Sir,-I should be pleased if you would kindly insert my disinterested testimony, regarding the above. Having travelled continuously for nearly seven days in corridor cars in Rhodesia, and…
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A splendid series of pictures illustrative of the terrible railway accident at Sydenham appears in the "Town and Country Journal" this week. It includes full page pictures of the scene at the…
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The Mayor of Rockdale presided over a large meeting held in the Town Hall, Rockdale, on Wednesday night for the purpose of raising funds for the assistance for those…
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