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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1900

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Railway By-laws. Ordinary and Excursion Fares

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 19 May 1900 · page 6

On Friday week the Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Owen, and Mr. Justice Cohen dealt with a matter which is somewhat…

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Wee Waa. the Narrabri-wee Waa Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 May 1900 · page 3

The Parliamentary Works Committee sat here during the whole of yesterday and up [?] late hour last night taking evidence re the construction for the proposed railway from Narrabri to Wee…

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Serious Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 May 1900 · page 3

A man, whose name has not yet been ascertained, was knocked down by an electric at Circular Quay this morning, receiving injur[?] to his head and right leg, the latter being almost severed at the…

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Local and General News. The Northern Mail Train

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 2

For some time past the people of Singleton have been complaining to the Railway Commissioners of the inconvenience to which they are subjected when, on holidays or busy…

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Walgett. Railway Matters

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 May 1900 · page 3

A large and [?] public meeting was held last night at [?] Hotel under the [?] of the Walgett Railway beague. Mr. W. H. Wright occupied the chair. The following…

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Shooking Railway Fatality

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

A TERRIBLE accident happened at Glenferrie ( Melbourne) railway station on Sundy night. Thos. Fricker, 35, a booking clerk, was crushed to denth…

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A Railway Employee's Claim

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 May 1900 · page 2

A special case affecting railway employees was, decided by the Fall Court on Friday, an ex-engine-driver claiming about £70 under peculiar circumstances. This…

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A Ride on a Railway Buffer

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 3
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

The " Telegraph" Paris correspondent telegraphs a strange story of a girl of 18, from Auvergne. She had been living in the French' capital with a…

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A Railway Employee's Claim

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 2

A special case affecting railway employees was decided by the Full Court last week, an ex-engine-driver claiming about £70 under peculiar circumstances. This represented the…

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A Terrible Railway Accident. a Shunter Killed. Sydney, Saturday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 June 1900 · page 3

At a very early hour this morning a horrible accident occurred at Waterfall railway station, which resulted in the death of as shunter named Robert James Algar Watson. The body was…

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The Queen's Railway Travel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 June 1900 · page 5

All Londoners and many of their provincial [?] know Paddington station, the [?] of the Great Western railway, but how many of these who " know it inside out," as one…

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The Longest Railway in the Empire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 June 1900 · page 6

Frederick Dolman describes in Cassell's Magazine what he call the longest railway in the Empire. This is the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the story is quite romantic…

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Important to Road Contractors

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1900 · page 2

There have been numerous accidents in this district through contractors heaping up stones and gravel on the public roads, often leaving the…

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Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 June 1900 · page 3

While man, whose name is supposed to be George McFarlane, was crossing Lower George-street this morning, he was struck by an electric tramcar and knocked under the cow-catcher. He…

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A Railway Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 June 1900 · page 3

The hearing was concluded this afternoon of an action brought by Mrs. Annie Matchott, of Whitton, against the New South Wales Railway Commissioners to recover £2000 damages for injuries…

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City Railway [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 June 1900 · page 3

The [?] Railway Esten[?] has [?] to commercial [?] give also…

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A Fatal Railway Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 7

At a very early hour on Saturday a horrible accident occurred at Waterfall railway station, which resulted in the death of a shunter named Robert James Algar Watson. The body was…

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Transvaal War Many Guns and Men Captured at Pretoria. Prisoners Resist Boers and Capture a Commandant. Canada Congratulates the Queen. Barbarity to British Prisoners. Kruger's Capital His Railway Car. He Boasts That the War Is Only Beginning London, June [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 3

Mr. Bennet Burieigh, the correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, states that many guns and several hundred Boer officers and men were captured by the British in Pretoria. The town is intact. When…

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Destroying the Railway. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 June 1900 · page 3

The Boers claim to have destroyed a portion of the railway south of the Vaal River…

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