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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1901

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British Finance a French Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 3

British capitalists finance the French concession for the railway from Jibutil, on the African shere of the Gulf of Aden, to Adisabeba, with the right to continue it…

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Mishap on the Railway. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 2

A wire from Lithgow states that it leaked out to-day that a few nights ago what might have been a calamitous accident happened to the mail train travelling over the Zig Zag, near Lithgow. The up…

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Railway Water Supply

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 19 January 1901 · page 2

We notice that owing to the continued dry weather the Railway Department have been compelled to [?] the donkey pump on the river bank near the Arnold Bridge…

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Nyngan Killed on the Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1901 · page 3

John Grimes, a carpenter, who was run over by a goods-train at Nyngan yesterday morning and killed, appears to have fallen form the platform on to the rails…

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Killed on the Railway. [By Telegraph]. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 January 1901 · page 2

John Grimes, a carpenter, who was run over by a goods train at Nyngan yesterday morning and killed, appears to have fallen from the platform on to…

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Murder in a Train

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 23 January 1901 · page 4

A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred in a train on the London South Western line. Just as the train had left Surbiton one of the passengers, an…

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A Railway Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1901 · page 3

The Brussels Appeal Court has, in the Selati Railway case, acquitted Louis Warnastand Braconier. It has increased the sentence of Eugene Oppenheim from two years to three years, and that of Henri…

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Ben Bridge's'story

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 7

BEN BRIDGE, who a few months ago was back to the colony from West Australia on a, chage of escaping from goal, has been lecturing in the…

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Raced the Train Against Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1901 · page 2

William S. Night recently told a very strange story of a chair car in a Chicago Great Western railroad train that was afire and full of passengers with the train at full…

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The Shanhaikwan Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 3

The Russians have transferred the railway from Taku to Shanhaikwan to the Germans…

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Late News by Cable. London, Jan. 25. China—the Railway Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 January 1901 · page 3

Dr. Morrison, the Times correspondent at Peking, stated that Great Britain withdrew her objections to Russia's conditions connected with the transfer of the Shanhaikwan railway to Germany. "Our position,'…

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The Tamworth Mail Train

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 January 1901 · page 2

It is now weeks and weeks since the Tumworth mail train, due here about 3 p.m., ran to time. While the holiday traffic was in full swing people accepted…

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The Wheat Boom. Heavy Railway Traffic

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 February 1901 · page 4

THE wheat traffic on the railways continues to be singularly heavy. During the present month over 1,100,000 bushels have been delivered at Darling…

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Railway Bridge Bell

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 4

In this issue appears a letter referring to the bell on the railway bridge, established some time ago by tbe Commissioners when the public asked that a signal-man should…

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Son Bridge's Story

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 6

Ben Bridge, who a few months ago was back to the colony from West Australia on a charge of escaping from goal, has been lecturing in the…

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The Railway Bridge Bell. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 4

SIR,—On Wednesday night last the bell on the railway bridge was set ringing as usual from the station, to give the customary warning to…

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Curious Railways

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 5
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Spain has a novelty in the way of a submerged railway It runs through the surf off. Oretom[?] nean Bilbao, 650ft. out into the ocean. The mines of…

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Heavy Railway Traffic. The Wheat Boom

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 February 1901 · page 1

THE wheat traffic on the railways coutinues to be singularly heavy. During the month of January over 1,100,000 [?] have been delivered at…

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The Tomworth Train

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 February 1901 · page 2

The Tamworth up-train was late again on Saturday and yesterday. She is due about three p.m., but yesterday she was 20 minutes late. This has now been going on…

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