Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Railways, roads & transport, all years

Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

940 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 45 of 47

[?]Culiar Railway Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 December 1906 · page 5

[?] protruding from a goods train [?] Peninsular Express as it was tra[?]teauneuf towards Avignon. Mr. [?]na, an engineer of the Indian…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Road from Tea Tree Gully to Blind Creek. Public Works Department, Sydney, 3rd December, 1906

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 1

Sir,—With reference to your letter dated 30th October, forwarding a petition from Messrs W. Thomas, of "Flower Dale," Glendon Brook, P…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

The East Greta Railway. Protest Against Resumption

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 4

A deputation comprising Mr. G. Earp, M.L.C., and Messrs. O. K. Young, R. Logan, A. Thomas, Howell, Harle, Trenchard, and Learmonth, representing the interests of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fatal Railway Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 December 1906 · page 3

[?] Hanna, engineer of the Indian [?] Administration, who was injured in [?] to the Peninsular express at [?] France, on Saturday, has…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Terrible Railway Accident. Train falls over a Bridge. Scores of Imprisoned Passengers Drowned

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 12 December 1906 · page 4

Our London correspondent cabled brief particulars of the terrible railway accident that occurred on Sunday afternoon, October 28, outside Atlantic…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

What Our Member is Doing. THE following official correspondence has been handed to us by Mr. W H. Fleming, M.P., for publication:— Proposed Railway Mushwellbrook Via Denman to Merriwa, Public Works Department

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 12 December 1906 · page 4

Sydney, 13th November, 1906. SIR,—I have the honor to inform you, in reply to your letter of 30th ultimo, that the Railway…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Cape to Cairo Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 December 1906 · page 3

The British Government is negotiating for [?] ocssion of a strip of territory on the [?] for the Cape to Cairo railway…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

The Dangerous Motor-car a Driver's Indifference

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 December 1906 · page 3

Robert Adam, of South Melbourne, was on Tuesday night riding a bicycle over a city crossing, when, he was struck down by a motor-par,that came…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Railway Electrification. Progress at New York

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 1

Less than three years ago the New York Central Railroad began the work of electification of the whole of its sytem within a radius…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

North Coast Railway. Commencement of the Survey at Taree and Maitland

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 1

Matters in connection with the proposed North Coast Railway, Bays the M. R. "Times," are beginning to assume a concrete shape,…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Big Engineering. Railway Across Salt Lake

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 December 1906 · page 3

Great Salt Lake, in the Mormon State of Utah, is 70 miles long by 48 wide in its maximum dimensions. Its extent and the lie of the ranges which…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Road Maintenance Men Local Government Change

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 4

An important statement concerning maintenance men was made in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday night. Mr Briner asked if, when the [?]hire…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Railway World

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 7

One roads with a gasp that £100,000,000 will be required to capitalise the gigantic scheme to link Asia with America by means of a railway and tunnel via Alaska, the…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Railway Monopoly

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 4

Mr. Lloyed George, President of the Board of Trade, replying to a deputation protesting against the gigantic railway monopoly indicated that the Government would cause…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The East Greta Railway. Protest Against Resumption

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 14

A deputation comprising Mr. G. Earp, M.L.C., and Messrs. O. K. Young, R. Logan, A. Thomas, Howell, Harle, Trenchard, and Learmonth, representing the interests of…

Continued on Trove, page 14 →

Proposed Resumption of the East Greta Railway

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 3

A deputation of the East Greta Coal Co., and others interested in the railway, interviewed the Minister for Works last Monday,…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Late Railway Accident [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 December 1906 · page 4

The Board of Trade enquiry upon the Grantham railway accident, in England, shows that the [?]river disregarded the danger signals…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Abyssinian Railway Proposal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 December 1906 · page 5

King Menelik is making a tentative proposed for the establishment of a railway from autumn to the interior of Abyssinia, with the view of obtaining a short cut to the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Struck by a Train

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 December 1906 · page 3

An elderly man, Amos Williams, was knocked down by a train at the Goulburm Junction (Vi[?] ) and severely injured. Williams was stru[?]k by the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Startling Incident Bolt Down a Mountain Road

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 December 1906 · page 1

Mr W.H. Kelly [?] had an exciting ex[?] ascending the Macqua[?] He and [?] little boy were [?]…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →