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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1888

350 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 18

The Amended Railway Time Table

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 May 1888 · page 3

Comparing this table with that which it replaces we find a multitude of small alterations, the disappearance of some trains and the addition of others. Persons who intend to travel will…

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Original Correspondence. Decentralisation and the Railway Rates. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 10 May 1888 · page 3

SIR,—Will you allow me space for a few words on the decentralisation movement which has begun on the L[?]er Hunter. Decentralisation — the couragement of local industries and the creation of…

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The Amended Railway Times Table

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 12 May 1888 · page 3

Comparing this table with that which [?] replaces we find a multitude of small alterations, she disappearance of some trains and the addition of others. Persons who intend to travel will…

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Running of the Northern Mail Train

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1888 · page 6

We publish tho following oflicial letter, at the request of Mr. J. P. Abbott, M.P.:- Department of Railways, Sydney, 9th May, 1888…

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ADELAIDE. Tuesday. Railway Earnings

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 May 1888 · page 3

For the week ending May 5th, £16,400 was received on the South Australian railways, as against £12,000 during a similar period last year…

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Racing Clubs and Free Railway Passes

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 May 1888 · page 2

UNFAVOURABLE comments have been made in sporting circles with regard to the recent disposition to deny any privilege in the matter of railway travelling to…

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Railway Proposals

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 May 1888 · page 3

The Government hope to be able to submit their new railway construction proposals to the Assembly either tomorrow or Thursday…

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The Jerry's Plains-cassilis Railway

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 May 1888 · page 3

In the Assembly to-day, the Minister for Works, in reply to Mr A. J. Gould, said that the matter of promise for a trial survey for a railway from Singleton…

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The Belmore Bridge

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 17 May 1888 · page 4

From the appended correspondence it will be noted that the Mr. R. W. Thompson, M.L.A., has succeed in inducing the Works Department to see the necessity for action towards repairing the…

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Original Correspondence. Members of Parliament and Railway Carriages. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 17 May 1888 · page 2

Sir,—In answer to Mr. McElhone's letter of the 9th instant, asking for the information promised by "Up Country Traveller," I beg to state that the gentleman who took possession of the carriage so…

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The Amended Railway Time Table

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 17 May 1888 · page 3

Comparing this table with that which it replac[?] we find a multitude of small alterations, the disappearance of som[?] trains and the addition of others. Persons who intend to travel will…

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Suicide of a Railway Stationmaster. (From the Herald.) Hay

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 17 May 1888 · page 3

Rumours have been circulated for some days past that the accounts of the stationmaster, Mr. William M'Kee, were wrong. An officer from Sydney came to investigate the accounts, and Mr. M'Kee…

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A Channel Bridge

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 2

A Frenchman has completed a Scheme for bridging the English Channel from Dover to Calais, a cost of £40,000,000 the structure to carry four lines of…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [The insertion of letters is no endorsemen of their contents.] the Bulga Bridge. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 May 1888 · page 2

SIR,—Some time ago your Bulga correspondent had occasion to call attention to the dangerous state of the Bulga bridge, the floor of which was so bad that some of the…

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The Amended Railway Time Table

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1888 · page 3

Comparing this table with that which it replacee we find a multitudo of small alterations, the disappearance of some trams and the addition of others. Persons who intend to tiavel will…

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Falling from a Train

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 4

A. girl about 14 years old, named Hetty Aitken, while travelling on Saturday by the Western day train to Sydney, with her aunt, was leaning out of a second-class carriage…

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More Railway Worrying

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 4

It has oozed out, in the customary mysterious fashion, that the railway authorities con[?]emplate another amendment so called of the time-table between Sydney and Brisbane…

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The Amended Railway Time Table

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1888 · page 3

Comparing this table with that which it replaces we find a multitude of small alterations, the disappearance of some trains and the addition of others. Persons who intend to travel will…

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Railway Libraries

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 May 1888 · page 3

THE Minister for Works, when recently on a tour of inspection on the Southern and Western lines, alluded to the grant made to the railway…

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Bulga Road Via Darkey Greek. Department of Public Works, Sydney, 18th May, 1888

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 May 1888 · page 2

SIR,—Referring to your letter of the 27th ultimo, and previous corespondence on the subject of the deviation of the Bulga Road via Darkey Creek, I am directed to inform…

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