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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1857

56 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 3

The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, April 7, 1857. Postal Changes Connected with the Railway

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 April 1857 · page 2

IT may be reasonably anticipated, and indeed we believe it is the fact, that the Postmaster General will lose no time in taking advantage of the increased…

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The Maitland Merrury. Thursday, April 9, 1857. Extension of Railways

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 April 1857 · page 2

THE evidence taken by the Select Committee on Railways, and which forms the basis of their fifth and final report (elsewhere given), leaves a, very…

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Parliamentary Paper. Railway Extension.— Final Report

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 April 1857 · page 4

THE SELECT COMMITTEE of the Legislative Assembly, for whose consideration and report was referred on the 19th November, 1856, the "Sole Commissioner of…

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Supplement to the Maitland Mercury. Poetry. the Anti-railway Traveller

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1857 · page 6

1.—The Newcastle bodies down below, They really mak an unca show; Their spirits are in highest flow About their rail;…

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The Maitland Mercury. Tuesday, April 14, 1857. the Accounts of the Maitland Road Trust

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 April 1857 · page 2

WE find in the Government Gazette of last Friday abstracts of each half-year's receipts and disbursements of the Maitland Road Trust, "from the 16th…

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Parliamentary Paper. Railway Extension

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1857 · page 6

General Report on the Explorations and Surveys made by the Detachment of Royal Engineers under the command of Captain J. S. Hawkins, R.E., with a…

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Railway Department.—great Northern Railway —Notice

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1857 · page 3

The commissioners for railways incorported by an [?]ct of the G[?]vernor and Legislative Council of New South Wales, do hereby give notice, that they intend, after the expiration of forty days from the publication…

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The Great Northern Railway

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 May 1857 · page 2

WE hope, before Mr. Weekes leaves Maitland, his attention will be forcibly drawn to the long delay the Government are permitting in the extension of the…

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Road Trust. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1857 · page 7

GENTLEMEN—Not wishing to encroach too much on your valuable columns, I hope you will favour me with a small space. The Victoria Bridge hits two lamps, now I wish…

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Road Trust. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1857 · page 4

GENTLEMEN—Not wishing to encroach too much on your valuable columns, I hope you will favour me with a small space. The Victoria Bridge has two lamps, now I wish…

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The Great Northern Railway

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 21 May 1857 · page 2

The effects of the heavy rains of the last ten days upon the roads of the diatrict having awakened in some minds a degree of solicitude as to the condition of the railway, a few rough…

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The Great Northern Railway

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1857 · page 2

WE take from the Northern Times of yesterday the following correspondence, respecting the delay in proceeding with the Northern Railway extension to West…

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Our Railway. To the Editors of the Maitland Mercury

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 30 May 1857 · page 7

GENTLEMEN—It is a subject of oomplaint with many as well as myself, that there is not sufficient accommodation in the railway train for passengers on general holidays and…

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Railway Department.—great Northern Railway.—notice

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 27 June 1857 · page 7

The commissioners for railways incorporated by Act of Council, 18th Victoria, No. 40, hereby give notice of their intention, at the expiration of forty days from the…

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Parish Road Morpeth. Department of Land and Public Works, Sydney, 14th July, 1857

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 July 1857 · page 3

With reference to the Government notice dated [?]th May last, relative to the opening and making of a Parish Road from Morpeth to the proclaimed line of Road from Maitland to Raymond Terrace; Notice is…

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Fatal Accident on the Geelong Railway

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 August 1857 · page 2

The Melbourne Argus mentions that, as the train which left Williamstown at nine a.m. was approaching the Geelong station, about halfPast ten a.m. on the 6th of August, the engine…

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Road

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 August 1857 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor General, with the advice of the Executive Council, having deemed it expedient to open and make a parish road (to be maintained at the…

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Maitland Road Trust

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 August 1857 · page 2

This body met on Monday the 24th. Messrs. Portus, Close, and Brown, attended, Mr. Portus being called to the chair. Mr. Chambers reported that he had had an interview…

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Railways in Victoria

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1857 · page 7

The Argus, in its summary for England by the [?] has the following statement of the progress of railway enterprise in Victoria—including the decision just arrived at to forward…

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ROADS. Department of Land and Public Works, Sydney, 30th September, 1857

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 October 1857 · page 7

Their Excellencies the Administrators of the Government, with the advice of the Executive Council, having deemed it expedient to open and make a parish road (to be maintained at…

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