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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
63 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 4
A public meeting was held in the hall of the Maitland School of Arts, on Tuesday evening, " for the purpose of petitioning the Government to have the railway workshops, which it is now contemplated to remove from Newcastle, erected in West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting of the inhabitants of this city was held on Wednesday evening, 27th instant, at the courthouse, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of memorialising the Government against the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Wednesday evening a meeting was held at Mr. Wade's, Lamb Inn, Dunmore, to protest against the manner in which the trustees are expending the recent grant to the Phœnix Park and Dunmore road. Upwards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The last new thing in railway signals, says a contemporary, is perfectly original, and promises to be the most popular yet brought out. A tube is inserted in the roof of each carriage, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the inhabitants of the Upper Hunter district was held on Tuesday afternoon at the Royal Hotel, Murrurundi, for the purpose of memorialising the Government on the subject of proceeding with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE meeting at Murrurundi on Tuesday last, afforded a timely opportunity for the expression of public opinion upon a subject of extreme importance to the Northern districts and to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The North British Mail furnishes an account of a robbery of a singularly daring and romarkable character, which has just been perpetrated on the Dundee and Arbroath section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At twenty minutes past 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, 26th February, a very appalling accident happened at Clifton, near Penrith, on the London and North-Western Railway. It…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE observe that the Minister for Works is expected to pay a visit to Morpeth, this week, and that the municipal authorities purpose laying before him a statement of the "grievances"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir John Young' Baronet, &c., Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of New South Wales, and Vice-Admiral of the same…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The great event of the day (Queen's Birthday) was a public meeting of the leading townsfolk, held in the Court-house, to take into consideration the state of the road from here to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The report of the Board of Land and Works as to the Government Railways for the year 1866 has been submitted to Parliament. We take from it the following particulars:âThe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE doctrine laid down by Mr. Byrnes at Morpeth, on Saturday last, namely, that the Government ought to let public roads running parallel to railways fall into a state of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday evening a shocking fatality occurred on the London and North-Western Railway, about a couple of hundred yards south of the Wigan passenger station, and close to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The traffic on the Great Northern Railway line has not been resumed as early as anticipated, the damage don by the late flods being of a more serious nature than at first imagined. On Wednesday last, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A very respectable and numerous meeting was convened by circular, at Mr. M. Murphy's hotel, on the evening of Monday, 1st July, 1867. On commencing the business of the meeting,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of the Maitland Road Trust took place on Tuesday. Present: The Warden, Councillors Bowden, O'Brien, and M'Mahon. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Does it ever occur to travellers up the country that when they are on the high road, within about twelve miles from Muswellbrook, they begin to have on their right hand a population, consisting of hundreds of families supported…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A very respectable meeting was convened by circular at Mr. H. York's hotel, on Monday evening, 5th instant, the purport of which was to petition the Government for a road from here…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Herald has published a portion of the papers on the defalcations in the Railway Department. The documents themselves, it is stated, occupy upwards of one hundred pages…
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