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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1897

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A Railway Ticket Cass. a Labor Agent Fined

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 February 1897 · page 4

AT the Central Summons Court, Sydney, on Wednesday last, J. E. Hitmann, proprietor of a labor ageney in Castlereagh-street, was proceeded…

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Midland Railway of New Zealand

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 February 1897 · page 3

The appeal against the appointment of Mr. A. Youngs, of Messrs. Turquand, Youngs, Bishop, and Clarke, accountants, an official receiver for the Midland Railway Company of New Zealand, has…

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Bridge Tender

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 2

The Department of Works is calling for tenders for the erection of a timber beam bridge over Stanhope Creek, on the road between Elderslie and Maitland…

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Railway Prospects

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 February 1897 · page 5

The Railway Department's returns of wool carried up to date show an excess of about 25,000 bales over the corresponding portion of the previous financial year. If the present season inland…

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Redfern Railway Station

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1897 · page 5

Giving evidence before the Works Committee to-day with regard to the proposed city railway extension, Mr. J. Parry, of the Traffic Branch, gave evidence about the congested state of the traffic at…

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Accident on the Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1897 · page 5

A ganger named Michael Moss, aged 53, employed at the Hornsby railway line, was run over near Chatswood this morning by a train and his left foot crushed to such an extent that it had to be…

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Narrabri-moree Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 February 1897 · page 5

Owing to delays in the work the Narrabri to Moree railway line will probably not be completed till the end of next month…

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Railway Board Inspection

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 February 1897 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon, last a departmental special, conveying Mr Firth (Engineer-in-Chief for Railways), Mr. Kirkaldy (Chief Traffic Manager;, Mr…

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Railway Tickets

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 February 1897 · page 3

Take a sheet of pasteboard as large as Hyde Park, cut it into slips an inch and a quarter wide, and two and a quarter inches long, and you will have rather less than the number of…

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Railway Produce Rates

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 11

Some time ago Mr. J. T. Kirkwood wrote to Mr. H. H. Brown pointing out the high rate (tonnage) of freight under certain circumstances of the carriage of potatoes on the railway from Maitland…

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Moree to Inverell Railway

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1897 · page 10

Further consideration was given by the Public Works Committee on Tuesday to the proposal, for construction of a railway froes Moree to Inverell. Mr. J. Harper, railway goods superintendent, was…

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The Railway Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 March 1897 · page 5

The strike of the employes of the North-Eastern Railway Company is affecting the collieries, is paralysing trade, and is restricting food supplies. The strike is causing immense loss…

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The Trans-siberian Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 March 1897 · page 3

A detachment of Russian infantry has started for Manchuria in order to protect the surveyors for the Trans-Siberian line of railway through the Manchurian province…

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The Railway Arbitration

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 March 1897 · page 3

The matter McSharry against the Hallway Commissioners was brought before the Full Court to-day on the application of Dr. Sly who with Mr. Hunt appeared for the Railway Commissioners to…

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The Railways under Federation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 March 1897 · page 4

The Premier on Monday night expressed the opinion (says Tuesday's Daily Telegraph) that there could be no 'Federal control over the railways until the financial arrangements of…

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Injury Through a Tram Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1897 · page 3

A man named James Beech, who was injured by a tram collision at Parramatta Road yesternight, still lies unconscious at the hospital…

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The Proposed City Railway Extension

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1897 · page 2

The Public Works Committee on Tuesday, sitting as a Royal Commission, continued the inquiry into the proposed extension of the railway into the city. Mr. Deane, Engineer in Chief for Railway…

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The Proposed Jerry's Plains Railway

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 March 1897 · page 2

Mr J. Harper, goods superintendent of the Railway Department, accompanied by Mr Edwards, of the Railway Construction Branch, spent some days during the past…

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Dr. Road's Presentation Committee

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 March 1897 · page 2

A meeting of the General Committee in connection with the proposed presentation, etc., to Dr. Read on Tuesday evening next was held in the Mechanics' Institute on…

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Railway Breakdown at Branxton

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 March 1897 · page 2

Just as the day train from Newcastle pulled up at the Branxton Station at about half past 2 o'clock yesterday, one of the steam tubes of the engine…

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