Railway Runaways. [?]Ting Chases After Truant Trains
Of the many romantic aspects of our iron roads few, perhaps, are more exciting than adventures in connection with runaway railway engines and trains…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1900
569 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 29
A Well Known Railway Worker
MR HAREY GIBSON, a well-known railway official, ever takes an earnest if quiet interest in all that pertains to the welfare of state or individual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Great Railways. Something about a Time-table. Brht Harte, when he wrote
An [?] hench, a sky of blackest etching A [?] black shed in blackest silbou[?]tte Twelve yards of platform, and beyond them stretching…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increases in the Railway Department
The Railway Commissioners have sanctioned the payment of increased to officers engeged in the lower branches of the service. For some years past the rule…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tramway Employees Inquiry
The report of the Roberts inquiry states that Roberts had been indiscreet and acted in a manner derogatory to his position in accepting gifts and borrowing money from tram conductors. The…
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JUDGE ROVERTS, as commissioner, has found that Robearts, the Tram[?] Superintendent, was indisareet in several matters, but requits him of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Muswellbrook Letter. Tenders for Road Works
The following are the lowest tenders for contracts recently arranged by the Resident Engineer (Mr. R. E. Jones) in the Roads District of Muswellbrook, and which were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Storm at Tamworth. Immense Damage to Roads and Buildings. Over Six Inches of Rain. Tamworth
Storms of exceptional severity occurred on Tuesday night at Nemingha and Dungowan. At the former place five and a half inches of rain were registered by a gauge at Mr. H. J. Week's farm,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Tugela Bridge. The World's Record. Broken By a British Firm
A world's record for bridge building (says the Birmingham Daily Argus in an interesting article) has been made by the Patent Shaft and Axle-tree…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Great Storm at Tamworth. Immense Damage to Roads and Buildings. Tamworth
Storms of exceptional severity occurred on Tuesday night at Nemingha and Dungowan. At the former place five and a half inches of rain were registered by a gauge at Mr. H. J. Week's farm,…
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THE annual picnic of railway employees from Singleton to Tamworlh will be held on Muswellbrook Show Ground on the 17th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transvaal War the British Occupy Stormberg. Further Boer Reverses. on the Road to Kimberley. Siege of Mafeking. Four Thousand Boers Surrounded. Congratulations From the Mikado. Losses of the Believing Column. Boers Near Osfontein. Celebrating Majuba Day. Boers Fight Stubbornly at Dordrecht. What Ladysmith Cost in British Blood. Basutos Jubilant. London, March 6
Reuter's correspondent reports that the Boers evacuated their position at Stormberg, north of Sterkstroom, on Sunday night. Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. Gatacre, with his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →His Time Was Limited. The Train's Delay Was a Matter of Importance to the Traveller
They were holding the west-bound express at Reno for the east-hound to pass, and after a while a tough-looking character came sauntering into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rights of a Public Road. What are They? A Queen Point Decided in England
AT the Wiltshire Assizes, at Devizes, England, on January 15, before Mr Justice Day and a special jury, the cases very heard of Thos. Hickmen v…
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IT is announced in our business columns that the annual picnic of railway employees on the Singleton Werris Creek section will be held on the local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rags and Bones. a Night in a Tramp's Hotel
In the summer the vagrant passes his existence loafing in the sunshine. In the winter he passes his time in a steady journey from one extremity of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr Scarr's Report. on the Sigleton-cassilis Railways. The Large Estates Will be Broken Up. People waiting for the Iron Horse
IN the last issue of the Merriwa Standard Mr Allan M'Rae of Cranbourne, pens the following letter:— " Mr Scarr's report on the Muswell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton- Parramatta Railway
A Parramatta correspondent writes:"Letters from the Sr. Albans Railway League, and also from that of Wollombi, were received by the Parramatta Progress…
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