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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1903

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Scone-Gundy Road

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 3

IN the Assembly last week, Mr. Price asked the Secretary for Public Works, —(1.) Has be any recollection of his promise, publicly made to the Hon…

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The Coming Harvest. What the Railways Will Carry

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 3

THE railway authorities have prepared an interesting statement of the probable quantity of wheat that will have to be carried upon the railways…

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New South Wales Railways

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 October 1903 · page 4

THE railway report for the quarter ending September 30th, was issued on Tuesday, and shows that the revenue amounted to £757,832, compared with…

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Great Railway Projects What Enterprise Is Doing in Three Great Continents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 5

Great railway projects seem to be again the order of the day, though they now. make less impression upon the world than they did when such…

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Great Railway Projects. What Enterprise Is Doing in Three Great Continents

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 3

Great railway projects seem to be again the order of the day, though they now make less impression upon the world than they did when such…

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The Quarterly Railway Report. Decrease in Earnings

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 October 1903 · page 7

The railway report for the quarter ended September 30 was issued yesterday, and shows that the revenue amounted to £757,832, compared with £788,971 received…

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The Roads You

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 2

MR. O'SULLIVAN had a bad time from friends and foes about the reduction in this year's estimates of the vote for roads. The proposed expenditure under this head is £150,00 less…

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Train-wreckers in America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 3

Train-robbers wrecked the Topeka express at Apishapa Bridge. The engine and four cars were precipitated into a creek. Thirty people were injured…

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Railway to Yunnan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 November 1903 · page 3

An agreement has been signed between China and France for the construction of a railway to Yunnan…

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Terrible Railway Accident. London

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 3

SOME gravel cars at Indianapolis, United States, while running down an incline siding, telescoped with a coach belonging to a passenger train. The…

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Terrible Railway Accident. University Students Killed and Injured. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 2

SOME gravel cars at Indianopolis, United States, while running down an incline siding, telescoped with a coach belonging to a passenger train. The…

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Late Railway Accident in Missouri. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 November 1903 · page 2

COLONEL HOLLAND, of the Salvation Army, who was one of the victims in the late railway accident in Missouri, United States, has succumbed to his…

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Terrible Railway Accident. LONDON

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 November 1903 · page 2

A terrible railway disaster has occur red at Indianapolis (U.S.) Some gravel cars running down an incline into a siding telescoped passing…

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The Roads Vote

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 November 1903 · page 4

Mr. O'SULLIVAN had a bad time from friends and foes about the reduction in this year's estimates of the vote for roads. The proposed expenditure under this head is £150,000 less…

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The Queerest Railway Ever Invented. Five Miles a Minute on a Magnet Train

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 7 November 1903 · page 3
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The mere thought of travelling 300 miles an hour is enough to take one's breath away, yet such Is the electrify ing proposition of Professor…

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Cost of Central Railway Station

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 November 1903 · page 1

MR O'SULLVAN has been much pertutbed by the statements which were made by some members of the Opposition, to the effect that the new…

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Singleton-Merannie Road

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 November 1903 · page 2

The bad condition of the, above road, during the recent wet weather, has drawn forth more than ordinary comment by those who have been compelled to plough…

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The Proposed Tramway. Towns to Be Connected

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 November 1903 · page 3

The Public Works Committee sat on Wednesday afternoon, when the report recommending the construction of the proposed tramway from East to West Maitland, and on to the Stanford-Merthyr and…

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The Siberian Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 November 1903 · page 3

Colonel Brown, late attache to the Chinese Embassy, estimates the cost of the Trans-Siberian railway at £75,000,000 sterling. He regards it as invaluable for…

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