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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
81 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 5
Wednesday evening, August 7, was a singularly unfortunate one for the Metropolitan and Metropolitan District Railway Companies: two accidents having occurred on their lines within a quarter of an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Old San Franciscans will remember a small zinc house which stood on the old Mission road about two furlongs beyond the cametery of Yerba Buena. It was a plain little house, standing in a very remote…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Deniliquin people, according to a report in the Pastoral Times of Saturday last, have drawn from Sir James Martin, as Premier, a very emphatic declaration of opinion that he will not consent to any…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parliament has given its sanction to a scheme which, when carried out, will quite transform one part of London, the waste howling wilderness around that splendid engineering work, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On the 7th August a daring attempt was made by a prisoner to escape from custody while being conveyed by train from Uxbridge to London. At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two young fellows were brought up before the Police Magistrate, Mr. Uhr, charged with having set fire to the grass at Quee, and thereby destroying a quantity of fencing, the property of Mr. Manchee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A collision occurred to-day on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, between a freight train and a passenger train, by which the following persons were killed: One of the conductors;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the morning of Sept 6 a most lamentable accident occurred on the Lancashire and Carlisle Railway,near Garstang Station, and situate about ten miles from Lancaster, whereby four labourers were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is within the bounds of possibility that the public, who are wondrously inquiring about many things, would like to know how the Great Northern Railway is progressing northwards from Wingen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(From "The Summer Tourist," edited by Miss Braddon.) A lawyer's office in summer-time is bY no means an agreeable place of sojourn. There is a prevailing sense of dryness and a lack of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. BYRNES stated, in answer to Mr. Stewart, that the judges receive free railway passes. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Mr. FALLON presented a petition against the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[We copy also from the Herald the full report of the discussion upon a question winch has been debated repeatedly in both Houses for several years past. The Government proposal is to pass a bill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A mournful occurrence is reported from Yoxford, Suffolk. The wife of the gatekeeper at a levelcrossing on the Great Eastern Railway was attending to the gate in the temporary absence of her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A few evenings since, when the train from Manchester to Liverpool reached Kirby station, a man named Wanless, having the appearance of a commercial traveller, and a woman, name unknown, who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEN attempts were made to get up a general agitation against the new tariff of railway charges some months ago, we abstained from taking part, on this ground amongst others, that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Herald's full report of the railway rates debate includes the following speeches, among others: THE INCREASED RAILWAY RATES. Mr. MACLEAY moved,—"That this House is of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →We proceed to give Mr. Byrnes's speech in full, as reported in the S. M. Herald, as representing the present views of the Government and its engineers on the narrow gangs question. But we may as well…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The House went into committee on the Public Roads Bill and a discussion arose as to the priority of the amendments of Mr. Darley and Mr. Ogilvie. The former had proposed two new…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Malta Times says:—"While people are talking of a railway to India direct, to accomplish the passage from London to Calcutta in five days, the Viceroy of Egypt has actually…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following remarkable document has been forwarded to as for publication, showing the great want of a passenger bridge at Aberdeen in addition to the Railway Bridge, and also of…
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