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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
637 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 32
A railway disaster has occurred at Welling-borough. Some boys placed a lug ago barrow on the line, with the result that a Midland express train was derailed. Six persons were killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Date of letter under reply:—12 h. July last, from Mr.James Smith, of Stoney Creek, Rouchel. Subject:—Drawing attention to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Date of letter under reply:—16th. inst., addressed to the District Engineer, Muswellbrook. Subject:—Drawing attention to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While at work this morning on the railway near Wyong, on the Northern line, two men, who were employed unloading and stacking rails, were seriously injured. While placing the rails into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Montreal and New York express train collided with a trolly car near Cohoes, and eighteen persons were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two spans of a railway bridge which was in course of erection over the river St. Lawrence, at Cornwall, Ontario, fell, and precipitated 100 work-men into the river. Thirty lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR.—The reply to my letter, by Mr. Garnham, about the state of the above road is evasive, and he gets away from the question as far as he can by alluding to other roads…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Now is the time to buy cheap books and rending matter. The painters are nt work painting LAMBERT'S and he is soiling a good bundle of magazines and papers for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Pall Mall Gazette states that the agreement entered into between Germany and Great Britain provides for the construction of a joint line of railway from Tientsin to Chinkiang, one of the treaty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Montreal express, when near the Conoes, collided with a trolley car, resulting in the death of 18 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following letter has been received by Mr. R. G. D. Fitz Gerald from the Department of Public Works:—I am directed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At 6.45 p.m. on Tuesday a special cheap excursion train, by which people could travel to all stations in the north or north-west at about half the ordinary rates, passed through West Maitland. A…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SIR,—Mr. Elkin is evidently a funny specimen of the genna homo. He first asks a number of question, and invites a member of the District Council to reply ; and, whon I do so, he says I am…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The first experiment in N. S. Wales with pioneer railway lines, that from Narrabri to Moree, has been such a success financially that the residents in the districts concerned have on several occasions'…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An unusual spectacle was witnessed in the City on July 20. Forty motorcars passed along the streets in an unbroken line, temporarily stopping the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Great Northern Railway servant who travelled express to Grantham clinging to the ironwork under tho carriage, where he was working unknown to the engine driver and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant re the road from Singleton to Jerry's Plains road to Warkworth,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our correspondent sends for publication the undermentioned official communication received by Mr. C. H. Dight, M.L.A., and we are pleased to note that the much needed improvements at this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE system of running the SydneyBrisbane mail trains has not been subjected to much improvement during the past year or two. This is not by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Once more we, Daily Mercury, suggest to the Government, if it is determined to spend public money in finding work for the unemployed, that such money may be more profitably used…
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