One Cause of Railway Accidents
The subject of railway accidents having become a paramount one, travellers occasionally send an account of their experiences to the newspapers. Here is one of them:—"On…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1871
81 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 5
Suspension Railway Projects. (From the Scientific Writer in the Melbourne Leader.)
Some two or three years ago a model of a suspension railway was exhibited in the Melbourne Exchange by Mr. Dyer, he having invented it several years before. He got a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Largs Road
The following reply has been received by the Mayor of East Maitland (A Dodds, Esq.,) to the letter sent to the Commissioner for Roads respecting the breach in the Largs road, between…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arrival of the Suez Mail, Per "Avoca." Latest News to December 23. No War with Russia. Defeats of the French Armies in France. Paladine Removed From Command. Prussians Threatening Further Cities. French Government Removed to Bordeaux. Dissensions in Paris—provisions Reduced. Attempt to Kill the King of Prussia. Russia Does Not Wish War—conference to Be Held in London —Russia and Turkey Both Unrestricted Number of Vessels. Difficulty Between Prussia and Holland. Wool Active. Grant's Message to Congress. Restoration of the Bonapartes Probable. Fearful Railway Accident. Snider Rifles Issued to Volunteers. Wool Sales Closed at Advance. Baby Farming Disclosures. Mercury Office, Maitland, Tuesday morning, January 17
We have received the following important mail telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The mail steamer has arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narrow-gauge Railways
The following letter, published in the Melbourne Argus, is of interest in all the colonies:— Sir,—By the last mail I received a letter from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bishop's Bridge
The annual school feast of the day and Sunday schools in connection with St. Andrew's Church, Bishop's Bridge, was celebrated on Anniversary Day with much eclat. This is the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Employes and the Government
We understand that on Wednesday morning a meeting of persons employed by the Railway Department on the Great Northern Line was held at Newcastle, when resolutions were passed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murderous Outrage at the SiX-MILE Creek, Gayndah Road. (From the Maryborough Chronicle, Feb. 4.)
Yesterday morning the inhabitants of Maryborough were horrified at the intelligence that a young man named Cleary, the nephew of one of our oldest settlers, had been barbarously shot…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opening of the Launceston and Western Railway, Tasmania. (From the H. T. Mercury, Feb. 13.)
Friday, the 10th February, 1871, may be considered to mark a new era in the history of material progress in Tasmania, when the northern colonists had the pleasure of seeing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Railway Disaster
The first news of the disaster reached London on the 7th December. The newspapers reported a frightful collision which occurred upon the Sunderland and Newcastle branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Railway Accident. (From the Home News, Dec.30.)
A terrible accident occurred to the 4.25 down train on boxing Day from King's-cress to Peterborough, which consisted of a powerful engine and tender, a nearly-new second-class carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road in the Cape Hawke District
The member for the Williams has received, after the lapse of five months, the following reply to an application for a road survey:— " Department of Lands,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assaulting a Railwaypassenger. (From the Newcastle Pilot, March 8.) Police Office, Newcastle, March 7. ASSAULT
Frederick William Cox, Alexander Curran Hogarth, and Edward Williamson, pleaded not guilty to acharge of assaulting Henry O'Meagher, solicitor, of East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads. Report From Commissioner on Works Executed During the Year 1870. [Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 16ft February, 1871.] the Commissioner for Roads to the Secretary Eor Public Works. Road Office, 9th February, 1871
Sir—In accordance with instructions conveyed in the letter of the Under Secretary for Public Works, dated 28th January, to forward report on the works executed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads.—mr. Bennett's Report. [Concluded.]
Having dwelt at some length on the road construction, the bridges and culverts should now be referred to. It has been suggested that, in lieu of bridges and calverts, causeways should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrible Disaster—burning of the New York Train. (From the News of the World, February 16.)
New York, February 7th.—The train leaving New York at 8 o'clock last evening met an oil train on the New Hamburg drawbridge. The oil train jumped the track, and broke in two,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District News. [From Our Various Correspondents.] Paterson. Public Meeting on the Bridge Question
On Thursday evening last a public meeting, convened by circular and notices, was held at the Court-house, Paterson, to give the committee (appointed by the public meeting held in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cut to Pieces on Railways
On Tuesday, Dec. 27, two fatal accidents occurred on the Midland Railway near Leicester. Thomas Dakin, forty-seven, a painter, of London, had been to Leicester to spend the Christmas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland District Council. a Bill to Dissolve the Maitland District Council and to Repeal the Maitland Road Trusts Acts. [Mr. Eckford;—21 March, 1871.] Preamble
Whereas by the Actof the ImperialParliament fifth and sixth Victoria chapter seventy-six the Governor of the Colony of New South Wales is empowered by letters patent under the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Terrible Railway Accident in France
The papers of Marseilles give detailed accounts of the railway accident which took place on the 5th February between that town and Toulon. The train started from Marseilles at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →