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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
149 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 8
SIR,âI was somewhat surprised to learn that the Progress Committee, whose reported fundamental principle is to benfit the district at large (having the services of an experienced wire-puller, according [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN" writes [?] European Mail of June 19:-[?] informed that quite a dozen [?] have been sent in by leading…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 18th July, 1885.— Sir.—Referring to your letter of the 6th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Department of Public Works, Office of Commissioner and Engineer for Roads, Sydney, 18th July, 1885.—Sir, —Referring to your letter of the 20th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Commissioner for Railways has issued a circular to proprietors of newspapers notifying that "it has been decided to concede to pressmen the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This evening, at about 8 o'clock, an accident occurred at the Rooty Hill railway station, two goods trains colliding and causing considerable[?]damage to the rolling stock. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Following are the principal items of the report of the Commissioner for Railways for 1884, which has just been issued. The total [?]mount of railway capital which ha[?] been authorised to be raited by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Department of Public Works, Sydney, 14th August, 1885.—Sir,—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, enclosing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whatever may be said [?] to the desirability or otherwise of constructing a road from Katoomba to the Fish River or Jenolan Caves, there can be no question that, as an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An engine driver on an American railroad, in relating some adventures of his life, gave an account of the conflagration of an oil train which occured several years ago on the Buffalo, Corry, and Erie Railroad…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →For many years past, says the Herald, various Governments have been urged to grant leases of Crown lands for tramway purposes, and although one or two such leases…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BELOW will be found an official letter in reference to the Goorangoola-Singleton road, and accompanying it is a return of moneys expended on it during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The ceremony in connection with the opening of the Great Western Railway extension to Bourke took place on Thursday afternoon, and appeared to bo in every sense successful. The weather was fine,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The construction of the cable tramway along the main thoroughfare of St. Leonards has now (says the Herald) reached a stage at which its completion comes within a measurable period, and the tram…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Department of Roads and Bridges Sydney, 9th Sept., 1885.—Sir,—With reference to your letter of the 2nd inst., requesting the expenditure of funds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Assembly to to-morrow Mr Gould is to ask the Minister for Works :—" Is he aware that the road from John-street, Singleton, to the river Hunter,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN the Assembly on Wednesday, Mr Gould asked the Minister for Public Works:—(1) Is he aware that owing to the Insufficient quantity of rolling stock on the Great Northern Railway, large numbers of cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"THAT'S what I like to see-a good [?] looks like blooming hospitality. Buti[?] greatly add to my present hospitality. But it was a little of the stuff that breaks up homes."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of the inhabitants of the Hunter and Goulburn Rivers was held in Denman on Wednesday last, for the purpose of discussing the most desirable route for the extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From the official report on the Indian railways it appears that there were open for traffic on March 21,1885, 12,004 miles, of which 9966 were in the hands of companies, 4344 State lines, and 664…
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