Railway Federation. [By Telegraph.] Sydney
IN the Assembly to-day, the ActingPremier said there was no record in the Railway Commissioners' office of a report made or sent to the Premier…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1897
458 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 23
The Local Road
SIR,—A alight error occurred in your report of my statement about Tocal road at the District Council meeting. I am credited with saying that the portion proposed to be tacked on had been…
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Not many days ago Mr. C. H. Jones, the assistant locomotive superintendent of the Midland Railway, was kind enough to communicate a number of interesting facts about the…
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SIR,—The railways that would best serve the interests of the people of Newcastle, and the country through which they pa[?] are shown on the accompanying map…
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Tram traffic to and from the eastern suburbs be was completely blocked for about an hour this morning owing to a car attached to a motor leaving the rails at the intersection of Elizabeth and Liverpool…
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Application of a familiar term to the yearly report of the Railway Commissioners is justifiable. It is a record report. For the first time since the New South Wales railway…
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As a preliminary to the Conference of Railway Commissioners of Victoria, Now South Wales, and South Australia on the subject of securing a uniform rail tray gauge for Australia, the heads of the…
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About 60 gentlemen sat down to a splendid dinner in the committee room of the Mechanics' Institute, East Maitland, last evening, given as a farewell to Mr. Arthur H. S. Griffin, field assistant…
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SIR,—Your correspondent "Anonymous but Friendly," on this subjects need not have been at the trouble of preparing a map to show what part the country is nearer to Newcastle than Sydney. It…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road via Bulga to Holmes' Creek Public Works Department, Sydney, 20th August, 1897
Date of letter under reply:—6th instant, enclosing a communication from Mr A. C. Robinson, of Singleton. Subject:—State of the road from…
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Mr. Oliver, one of the Railway Commissioners who visited Melbourne for the purpose of attending the conference to consider the question of a uniform gange for the railways of Australia returned to…
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THE Minister of Works on Tuesday gave some indication of what is in his mind respecting the submission of a North Coast railway project to the Public Works…
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Mr F. Clarke moved in the Assembly—"That in the opinion of this House, and in view of the heavy losses of produce incurred by shippers of the…
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A ganger named McEacheran, who resides at Carcoar, was seriously injured last night. He had been to Blayney, and while returning to Caracar on his tricycle was run into by a train. His injuries…
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THE Minister of Works on Tuesday gave some indication of what is in his mind respecting the submission of a North Coast, railway project to the Public Works…
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Gn Monday a number of members of the Morpeth Council had an interview with Mr. W. G. Etching, Kitching Superintendent of Railways, with respect to the running of the Morpeth trams. The…
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The goods train which was running over the mountains early this morning collided with a cow, with the result that several trucks were derailed, and in consequence of this the passenger train to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tuesday, August 31, 1897. Federation and the Railways
DURING the sitting of the Federation Convention in Adelaide Mr. Eddy, who to our grief no longer occupies the place of Chief Commissioner of Railways, made a confidential…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Premiers Arrival. a Splendid Reception in Sydney. Chief Commissionership of Railways [By Telegraph.] Sydney
The steamship Miowera, in which Mr Reid, premier of N. S. Wales, was a passenger, from Vancouver, arrived this afternoon. She reached the…
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A heavily-laden goods train bound for [?] ran off the rails at Jolimont about a quarter of a mile from Melbourne. Shortly s[?] four o'clock this morning the engine by some mischance or…
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