Alarming Tram Accident
CONSIDERABLE commotion was evented on the Nowtown-road, during the busy hours of Saturday night by the bursting of the steam-gauge glass of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1899
669 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 34
The Chinese Northern Railway. LONDON
The Chinese Government has not agreed upon an impartial investigation into the circumstances attending the dismissal of Hau-Ching-Chang, a…
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During the past mouth or two the number of young men, who have been carrying their swags in the Hunter district looking for wort, has been unusually great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to the Editor. Railway, Maitland to Millfield
SIR,—I shall be glad if you will kindly allow me the use of your correspondence column, to express an opinion that the time has arrived to urge upon the attention of the Government the necessity…
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There is no telling what romance lies hidden in the heart of any man among the thousands that throng the city streets. Back of the most forbidding exterior the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Lion's Leap at a Train
To do battle with a huge mountain lion, seven feet in length and 2531bs. in weight, on a trestle at night, is the thrilling experience that has just befallen Edward C. Depew, an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Lions Leap at a Train
To do battle with a huge mountain lion, seven feet in length and 253lbs in weight, on a trestle at night, is the thrilling experience that has just befallen Edward C. Depew, an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Sandy Creek to Mount Vincent
The Hon. J. N. Brunker sends for publication the following official letter. The information it contains will be received with satisfaction by those of our readers who are concerned in the condition…
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The condition of an unknown man who was knocked down by a tram in Elizabeth-street yesterday is still critical. The patient has not yet recovered consciousness, and very slight hopes are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Singleton-Parramatta Railway
Our Parramatta correspondent writes :— "A very good start has been made by some of those who agreed to collect statistics and other information in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Negotiation
Cecil Rhodes is negotiating with King Leopold for the ultimate junction of Khartoum and Zambesi railways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Parramatta to Singleton. the Suggested Railway
The proposal to connect the Great Northern and Great Western linos of railway by a line from Singleton to Parramntta is not only older than any railway project now before the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Shocking Death. Railway Employee Cut to Pieces. [Br Telegraph] Sydney
JAMES REDDAN, a permanent railway employee, while returning to work after breakfast, was crossing the line and was knocked down by an engine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Engine Driver's Death. Narrow Escape of 200 People. The Dangers of Railway Travelling
THE New York papers contain a sensational account of what is tortned one of tho " queerest of railway accidents on record." A passenger train was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Refund of Unused Railway Tickets
At the recent conference of Railway Commissioners of the various colonies, the question of the unused halves of intercolonial return tickets was considered. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton to Parramatta Railway
Our Parramatta correspondent writes :— "The residents of the more westerly of the two routes surveyed for the railway to Singleton are not going to allow the matter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Silled on the Railway. a Woman's Fatal Mistake. [By Telegraph] Sydney
MRS ANNIE COLEBOURNE, a storekeeper at Oatley, met her death yesterday morning. As the train was approaching the lattter station, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brisbane. the Railway Revenue
The railway revenue of the colony for January shows an increase of £18,848 compared with January of last year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Carriage of Stock. Deputation to This Railway Commissioners. an Experiment to Be Made. Sydney
A deputation interviewed the Railway Commissioners to-day, and urged them to make some better provision for carrying stock over long distances on the railways…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Sandy Creek to Mount Vincent
The Hon. J. N. Brunker sends for publication the following official letter. The information it contains will be received with satisfaction by those of our readers who are concerned in the condition…
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