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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
149 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 8
The terrible railway disaster near Cootamundra was almost the sole topic of conversation in Sydney ou Sunday, and the anxiety of everybody to hear further news of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IN reference to the condition of the passengers who were in the railway disaster near Cootamundra. the special reporter of the Sydney Daily Telegraph says:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →All the persons enquired for by their friends have been heard of. There is no reason to believe anybody else is now missins in the railway disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fat Cattle.—On Tuesday 910 were yarded. Good quality very scarce, and sold very readily; market for other sorts unaltered; the beat average was £8 3s 4d. On Thursday the supply was smaller than…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following is a complete list of the passengers by the wrecked train:— Saved: John Knowlman, A. Triglowe, John Pattison, G. H. Risby, John M'Donald or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"WE are now in possession of fuller information than was last week available, on the subject of the lamentable disaster at Cootamundra. The subject must be looked at in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A few nights ago five armed and masked robbers stopped a railway train some three miles from Little Rock, Arkansas. They covered the train officials with revolvers, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT the end of 1888 there were 270.000 miles of railway in the world, which would make a line from the earth to the moon, with 20,000 miles to spare…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN important new departure in railway lighting is reported from the district where the passenger railway had its birth—the Liverpool and Manchester line of the London…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney. Friday.—A railway collision occurred at Rooty Hill yesterday, attributable to the brakes of the special train being powerless. The fireman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney, Tuesday.—Six thousand six hundred owes in lamb have been forwarded by rail to Byerock without the loss of a single sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We have been requested by Mr. H. H. Brown to publish the following official letter: Department of Public Works, Office of the Commissioner and Engineer for Roads,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—With your kind permission I wish to say a few words concerning the dangerous state of this bridge. About a fortnight since, I was returnirng home from Maitland, when a valuable horse of mine…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A meeting of road contractors was held at the Exchange Hotel, West Maitland, on last Monday afternoon, for the purpose of forming an association for their mutual…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney, Friday.—The man killed by the train yesterday at Stanmore has been identified as William Holting, formerly residing in Petersham…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following letter from Mr. J. F. Burns M.L.A.,to Mr. W. C. Green, Mount Huntley, will be read with pleasure by the residents at Harper's Hill, who use the road referred…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An accident happened to the down mail train from Melbourne to-day at Wallan Wallan Station, near Kilmore, where the train had pulled up, when it was run into by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A public meeting was held on Thursday evening last at Stephens' Railway Hotel, Narrabri, to protest against the absurd action taken by a few inhabitants of Narrabri with reference to the deviation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 5th March, 1885.—Sir, —Referring to your letter of the 13th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It may be of interest to some of our readers to learn that in Engineering, of January 16 and 23, will be found a very clear article, descriptive of the whole of the railways yet…
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