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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
15 stories in Hunter Valley's papers
We regret to have to announce to our readers, and to the inhabitants of the Hunter more particularly, that the works on the new road have been suspended—as we suppose, for want of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Having lately met with an article on railways in the "Edinburgh Review" for July, 1846, compiled from ten different works on railways—in German, French, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIRâHaving in my former communication sketched the outlay of capital incident on completing and bringing into full operation the lines of railroad in Great Britain-an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The sum of £4000 having been p[?]ided by the Legi[?]lative Council "for making and repairing public roads and bridges on which tolls are not collected" during the year 1848,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A public meeting was held, pursuant to announcement, in Mr. S. Lyons's rooms, on Thursday afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →By a notice published in the Government Gazette of the 11th of last month, it appears that ferries have been established on the new line of road from Sydney to Maitland by way…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—I have observed with much pleasure your notice of any improvement tending to the permauent advantage of the district in which your journal most satisfactorily spreads…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE government has recently introduced a Bill for the improvement of certain roads near Sydney. The object of this Bill is to enable the Governor to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. GRANT to move the following Resolutions:- (1.) That, although the attention of the public in this colony has been principally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Select Committee of the legislative Council, appointed on the 28th of March, 1848. "to take into consideration the practicability and expediency of introducing railways into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Before the town is further enlarged, would it not be most seasonable and wholesome to advise the public who may henceforward think of laying out new roads, to open them at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By Tram, we wish our readers to understand that we mean the ancient jog-trot system of applying animal force to railway carriages; and, by Rail, the more modern method of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN this colony has at length commenced in earnest. A prospectus has been issued of a "Sydney Tramroad and Railway Company," with a capital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The sum of one thousand five hundred pounds having been provided by the Legislative Council "[?]or Roads and P[?]bli[?] Works beyond the Settled Districts." of the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN the Mercury of Saturday last appeared a communication from an intelligent correspondent at Liverpool, exhorting the landholders and other…
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