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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
56 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 3
The Act passed during the last session of the Legislative Council for incorporating the Pyrmont Bridge Company is now the law of the land; and its operation is likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An Englishman was bragging of the speed on English railroads to a Yankee traveller, seated at his side in one of the cars of a "fast train" in England. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →His Excellency the Governor General has been pleased to appoint Messrs. Henry Sanderson, Edward Twynam, Josiah Rowland, John Berry, Thomas John Oliver, John Henry Grogan, Thomas Berry, John…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A party of Government surveyors have for some little time been engaged in surveying the country from West Maitland onwards towards Singleton, as groundwork for the Intended railway line. It is well known that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the gentlemen connected with the preliminary surveys now being made in this district, preparatory to the extension of the railway line beyond Maitland,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The meeting of this body took place on Tuesday, pursuant to adjournment. Present— the Warden, and Messrs. Walsh and Borthwick. There were not enough members to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE are many ways, as it appears to us, in which, after a colony has been entrusted with the power of legislating for itself, and, for all practical purposes,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Newcastle correspondent of the S. M. Herald, reporting the festivitiesthere on the Queen's Birth-day, gives the following report of the first working use made of the Hunter River Railway, for conveyance of goods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Times' Vienna correspondent writes that not only is the railroad mania violent, but speculation has taken possession of all classes there; and it is credibly asserted that there…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—Observing in your publication of 3rd instant, a paragraph respecting the importance to Armidale and its neighbourhood of a nearer and better road to some shipping port…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., has been delivering an address to the institution of Civil Engineers, of which he was recently elected president,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GENTLEMEN—The letter of Veretta to the Sydney Morning Herald, placas the subject of a railway on sa just a principle that I am induced to continue the subject in your columns…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir—In a letter to the Argue, Mr. Brooke estimates the cost of a railway from this to Williamstown at £400,000, a distance of nine miles. At this rate a railway to Bendigo would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMEN—The Government account of the expenditure of the railway, as inserted in the Mercury, on the 28th ultimo, is most fallacious. The report of the Commissioners, in clause 12…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday afternoon last a meeting was held a[?] the Fi[?]z Roy Hotel, West Maitland, the attendance of all persons interested in the extention of the Newcastle Railway to West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have received a statement of the passenger and goods' traffic, together with the number of passengers, on the Sydney and Parramatta Railways, daring the quarter just terminated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GENTLEMEN—I have much pleasure in furnishing you with authentic returns of Traffic, which have been taken under my directions, on the Northern Road, during the months of May and June. I must trouble you to return the original documents, as they may be required by the Government to form a basis of calculation respecting the revenue which may be derived by an energetic prosecution of the line of railway northwards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Friday evening a meeting was held in the Court-house, West Maitland, to approve of a petition to the Legislature for the attainment of this object…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE meeting of Friday evening last resulted, as will be seen by our report, in the adoption of a petition to the Governor, praying that a railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MANY of our readers will be gratified to learn that this petition will be presented to the Government in a shape entirely free from the chance of misconception…
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