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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1900

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Capture of a Train. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 June 1900 · page 3

Muchinconvenience has been caused to the troops by the fact that the Beers recently captured a train at the Zand River, 35 miles south of…

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Railway Carriage Windows

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 June 1900 · page 5

What is the law with regard to the control of windows in railway carriages? This is a matter that is very difficult to decide, and has probably caused as many disputes as the…

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The Siberian Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1900 · page 2

A CICASTIC scheme of railway construction the greatest in the world—is the Russian scheme for connecting the M[?]ovite empire in Europe with the newly-acquired pert in…

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Late News by Cable. Landon, June 25. Terrible Railway Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1900 · page 3

A terrible railway accident, att under with much [?] life, is repeated from Maudo[?]. In the state of filling in [?], Heavy [?] damaged The hon to such an extent that a tra[?], felt into the…

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Public Works Committee. Narrab[?]-walgettcollarendehri Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 June 1900 · page 2

The Public [?] Committee, as the sitting yesterday, [?] evening in [?] to the [?] railway [?] to Walg[?], with [?]…

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The Very Latest. London, Thursday afternoon. ElECTRIC RAILWAY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 3

The Prince of Wales has opened the Central London Underground Electric Railway from Shipbord's Bush to the Bank of [?]gland…

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Trouble in China. Admiral Seymour's Force in a Desperate Position. a Relief Force Sent to Help the Position of the Ambassadors a Railway Destroyed. Desperate Resis of the Chinese

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 June 1900 · page 3

The Chinese troops desperalely resisted the advance of the from to the [?] of Ti[?] until the 1,7 guns of H.M.S. Te[?]ble [?] the [?] which the Chinese had [?] on the walls…

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Proposed Middle Falbrook Bridge

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 4

Residents of the district will read with interest the following official letter which Mr Dight. M.P., has received from the Public Works Department:—" I am…

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Special [?] for a Road

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 4

WE learn from Mr night, Mr, that the Reads Department has-in reply to a petition from residents, asking that portion of the road from Middle Falbrook, via…

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Bridge Over the Page River at Blandford

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 2

Owing to the inelemency of the weather on Saturday evening last, the me[?]ing with reference to the above which was to have been held at the Plough Inn, Blandford on…

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Calling Road Tenders. An Unfair Practice Complained About

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 8

ATTENTION has been drawn to what those most concerned consider an unfair practice on the part of the Roads Department in dealing with tenders,…

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Latest Cable News. Disastrous Railway Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 1

HEAVY rains damaged the line at MacDonough, Illinois (U.S.), and a train fell into a river. Some of the cars became alight, and 35 persons…

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Public Works Committee. Narrabri-walgett-collarendebri Railway

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 5

The Public Works Committee, as its sitting on Wednesday, took further evidence in reference to the proposed railway from Narrabri to Walgett, with a branch line to Collarendebri…

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The Siberian Railway

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1900 · page 7

A gigantic scheme of railway construction— the greatest in the world—is the Russian scheme for connecting the Muscovite empire in Europe with the newly-acquired port in…

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The Slough Railway Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 July 1900 · page 3

At the inquest on one of the vietims at the railway [?] at the Slough Railway Station on June 16, the jury acquitted the driver of the Plymouth express, which rain into a special race…

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Light Lines of Railway

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1900 · page 2

THE Minister for Works was [?] week engaged with the Eoginear-in-Chief for Hallways arranging a [?] of light lines of railway. It is…

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War in China. Seymour's Column. Despatch from the Admiral. Continuous Desporate Fighting. Capture of a Chinese Armoury. Heavy List of Casualties. A Railway Attacked. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1900 · page 3

Admiral Seymour reports that despite [?] attacks by the Boxers, the Imperial troops, who repulse. them with great loss, the expedition…

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Dairy District Roads

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 July 1900 · page 2

In the Assembly on Tuesday night, Mr M'[?] asked the Minister for Works upon the roads in the coastal districts, caused by the rapid growth of the dairying…

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The Loading Accommodation, East Maitland Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 4

The Hon J.N. Hursker sends for publications the following [?] letter : office of the Railway Commissioners, Sydney, 6th july, 1900,…

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Great Snowstorms, Telegraphic and Railway Communication Interfered Withy. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 July 1900 · page 3

The heaviest snowsterm for over forty years tell at Crookwell on Wednesday night, the round being covered to a depth of eighten inober. Many houses collapsed with the weight of the snow, There was…

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