London Bridge
London Bridge, the new extension of which is nearing completion, has an extraordinary history, Originally built in 994, it was soon destroyed by the Danes, and again by flood in…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1904
582 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 30
Bicycle Road Race
A very successful bicycle road race for two handsome pendants, a gold one for the first man. and a silver one for the second, was run off on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Train to Travel 300 Miles an Hour
Dr. Albertson, a distinguished electrical engineer of the Royal University of Denmark, has finished an invention as the outcome of which,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The 100-Mile-an-hour Train. Only Possible on a Special Line
The Prussian State railways between Hamburg, Hanover and Berlin will shortly conduct an interesting competition between steam and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Singleton-Cassilis Railway. To the Editor of the Chronicle
Sir,—From time to time this proposed railway has caused a great amount of criticism, despite the investigation by the Public Works…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Great Railway Scheme
President Roosevelt's Pan-American Railway Commissioners, after visiting the South American Republics, report favourably on the construction of an intercontinental…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Death of Mr. Kitching Popular Railway Official Gone. Sydney
A very popular railway official in the person of Mr. W. G. Kitching, who had been for several years past District Superintendent at Newcastle, passed away this morning, after…
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AN accident occurred on Wednesday night at Toongabbie, Gippsland, to Mr Hall, the owner of Ferny Estate, who was crossing, the line in a hooded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Molong. Fearful Railway Fatality
A frightful railway accident occurred near Gumbool siding, Molong district, this morning. It appears a fettler named McLaskey was inspecting the line in advance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Land Near the Railway Station
The Cabinet to-day practically decided to sell the surplus land surrounding this new City Railway Station, the proceeds to be devoted to the diminution of the loan account…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Victorian Railway Trouble
THE railway trouble in Victoria is not quite dead. On Sunday a meeting of 400 railway employees was held in Melbourne, for the purpose of raising…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Electric Railway
The Liverpool and Southport line has been opened as an electric railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder of an Old Man. a Cowardl1y Crime. Police in Search of a Tramp. Campbelltown
News came to hand to-day of a ghastly murder having been committed on Douglas Park-road, about one mile from the railway station, in a cutting near the hill known as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Across the Anges
The railway across the Andes, between Chile and the Argentine Republic, which was projected twenty years ago. Is at last to be completed, the Chilean…
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London Bridge, the new extension of which is nearing completion, has an extraordinary history. Originally built in 994, it was soon destroyed by the Danes, and again by flood in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wireless Message to a Moving Train
Signals were recently exchanged between a station and a train which was running at the rate of 50 miles an hour. No attempt was made to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An Express Electric Tramway
We must go to Detroit to find the fastest tram in the world, which traverses a journey of 40 miles, including stoppages, in two hours and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Time Table October 25Th 1903. Murrurundi to Sydney
The passenger train lcaves Murrurundi at 10.31 a.m. daily (Sunday excepted), arriving at Singleton 12.53 p.m. Newcastle 2.57 p.m. and Sydney at 6.36 p.m…
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The Railway Commissioners commenced their annual inspection of the railway lines of the State on Sunday evening last, when they left Sydney for the north by special…
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