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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1902

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 September 1902 · page 3

William Fahey, aged 38, railway fireman, residing at Hornsby, was killed by his own train at Turramurra railway station last night. He was on duty on the train which left Milson's Point for Hornsby…

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Stinking Gully Bridge

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 September 1902 · page 2

In our issue of the 11th just there appeared a letter [?]ing the steap [?] and des[?]ts to and from the new bridge, in [?] of comptition at s[?]king G[?]…

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Fatal Tram Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 September 1902 · page 3

Mrs. John Langley, who was run over by a tram last night, died in the Hospital this morning…

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Daring Train Robbery

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 5

A daring and successful tram robbery occurred at Marcus, on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railway, five miles north of Savanna,…

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The Uganda Railway

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 3
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

The Uganda railway is expected to be finished in the course of a year or eighteen months. The difficulties of making a…

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Railway Extension to Cassilis

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 2

ANOTHER step forward has been taken with the project to connect Merriwa and Cassilis districts with the northern line, as the following communication,…

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A Railway Thief's Ingenuity

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 3
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

An article entitled " Successful Knavery " appears in the current issue of " Chamber's Journal." In its course the writer tells the…

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The Railway Commissioners and Trades Unions

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 2

The altitude of the Railway Commissioners in declining to officially recognise the unions in which employees of the service are enrolled has for some time been regarded…

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Railway From Wellington to Werris Creek

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 5

FURTHER consideration was given by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works on Thursday to the proposal for constructing a line…

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The Railways LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 September 1902 · page 4

The orders received in England during the past week from Cental and South African railways include orders for 104 passenger coaches, 38…

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Railway Collision in London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 September 1902 · page 3

The Penzance express yesterday, while Blowing down to 20 miles an hour approaching Paddington station, came into a collision with as engine shunting at Westhourne Park. Both engines were looked…

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Railway Collision in England. Several Injured. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 3

THE [?] express, after Howing [?] speed of 20 miles an hour on [?] Radtington Station, [?] with an engine which was…

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American Train Robbers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 3

Adaring nnd successful train robbery occurred at Marcus, on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quiney railway, five miles north of Savanna, about midnight on August 5. A vestibuled…

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The Bagdad Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 September 1902 · page 3

The Novoe Vremya, a St. Petersburg journal, showed itself perturbed in announcing the commencement of the construction of the German Anatolian railway to Bagdad…

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Railway Compensation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 3

An unofficial statement gives the total sum paid as compensation for accidents by the Railway and Tramway Department during the past fourteen years us £206,600…

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Maitland Circuit Court. Thursday, September 25. (Before his Honor Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson and a jury of four.) A'BECKETT V. the Railway Commissioners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 2

After the report of the above case, in which Mary Anne A'Beckett sued the Railway Commissioners to recover £1000 damages for injuries sustained in a tramway accident on the line between Newcastle…

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Friday, September 26. The Court resumed at ten o'clock. A'BECKETT v. the Railway Commissioners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 2

David Walker, tram driver, Newcastle, deposed that he was on duty on the tram on the 9th October, 1901, when the accident occurred. The tram stopped at Beaumont-street about half a minute before the…

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Road Contracts

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 27 September 1902 · page 2

Tenders are invited in our business colomns for Contract No. 28/023, Buxtree Road to Fsis River ( Murphy's Hill deviation) to spended specifications, which may be…

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