Reduced Railway Stock Freights
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 2
A deputation from tho Stook Board Council of Advice waited upon the Railway Commissioners yesterday to ask that buyers of quantities of stock at Flemington or Maitland for ordinary pastoral…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 July 1899 · page 4
The Sydney papers contain particulars of a partially new scheme for the extension of the railway from Redfern to the centre of the city. It does not touch the surface of Hyde…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Hawkesbury Bridge. (By Telegraph) Sydney
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 3
COMMENTS were recently made to the effect that the railway bridge, Hawkesbury River, was showing signs or insecurity. Upon inquiry at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to the Editor. High-level Bridge at Luskintyre
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 4
SIR,—I do not intend to continue a controversy that would injure a cause which I fear is already too weak, but as I have had all sorts of selfish and narrow motives imputed…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 July 1899 · page 2
Shortly before 2 o'clock on Saturday the dead body at a woman, who has not yet been identified, was discovered not yet been identified, was discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parramatta to Singleton Railway
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 July 1899 · page 2
A meeting of the Singleton—Parramatta Railway League was hold, in the South Singleton Council Chambers on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. W. J. Quinn presided…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 July 1899 · page 2
The Government has purchased the Rosehill Railway for £22,500, being an advance of £2,500 on the amount authorised by the Works Committee…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 7
The Railway Commissioners have very little to say with regard to the demand for extra trains on the northern line, but they have read with considerable interest interviews published in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bicycle Road Race
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 12
On Friday afternoon a road race was run under the auspices of the Maitland Bicycle Club, the course being five times round the Trappaud Road course. There was a large attendance opposite the Governor…
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The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 3
As the stock train which leaves Murrurundi about 4 a.m. was drawing out of the siding on Thursday morning, a slight mishap occurred. Is appears that nearly the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed on the Railway
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 7
The dead body of a woman was found on the Milson's Point railway line, near the Edwards-road railway station, on Saturday morning, the 8th instant. The whole of the scalp at the back of the back…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1899 · page 13
A deputation from the Stock Board Council of Advice waited upon the Railway Commissioners on Friday to ask that buyers of quantities of stock at Flemington or Maitland for ordinary pastoral…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Railways in China
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1899 · page 3
An English-American syndicate, comprising the Rothschilds, the Morgans, the Vanderbilts, and the Mortons with a capital of 65,000,000dols. (about £14,000,000), has been formed to construct the…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 2
The two local Municipal Councils may and a profitable hint from a more advanced method of road-making than obtains here. It is generally recognised that one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Paper Train Movement
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 2
YESTERDAY'S issue of the lending metropolitan journal contained two columns of opinions collected from commercial, professional and banking citizens of Newcastle, in favour of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Railway Smash On the West Wallsend Coal Company's Line. Per[?] Plight of Passengers. [?]
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 July 1899 · page 4
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the West Wallsend Coal Company's line on Wednesday night. It appears that a train of about . It appears…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The City Railway
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 19 July 1899 · page 2
The extension of the railway into the city is provoking a great deal of discussion. Under the most favourable circumstances the enormous sums of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Collision. Sensational Experiences
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 19 July 1899 · page 4
A SRIOUS accident occurred on the West Wallsend Coal Company's line on Wednesday night. It appears that a train of about 30 coal-laden trucks,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Paper Train Movement
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 4
SIR,—As I believe in Hunter River and not in Hunter-street interests, I am pleased to see your leader on the paper train movement. I am astonished to see so many firms in Newcastle so…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bridge Stealers of Russia
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1899 · page 3
A traveller arrives at a rives which he calculates on being able to cross. Not a bit of it! The bridge has been solen in the night by the 'peasants! True it is that these bridges are…
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