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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1908

1,332 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 53 of 67

Disastrous .Railway Collision. Terirble Incidents. Passengers Mutilated (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 September 1908 · page 2

Later accounts show that the railway collision in Berlin threw a third-class ear full of passengers into a courtyard, twenty feet below the line, smashing the…

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Merriwa Railway Proposal

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 September 1908 · page 4

The Minister of Public Works has promised to bring before Parliament this session, for re-investigation by the Public Works Committee, a railway…

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Road Rollers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 30 September 1908 · page 4

SHIRE Councils as well as Municipal Councils would do well to consider the question of obtaining a good roller [?]o the purpose of rolling their newly…

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Bicycle Road Race. An interesting [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1908 · page 4

[?] from Morpeth, through Hinton, Largs, and Bowthorne, a distance of about 12 miles, promoted by Mr. R. F. Foster, representing Mr. A. W. Fitness, was held at Morpeth on…

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The Railway Motor Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1908 · page 4

We are no doubt on the eve of important developments in our railway systems in Australia. So far they have been run on a too uniform system instead of being adapted to the requirements of…

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Differential Railway Rates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1908 · page 5

Who Commonwealth Constitution prohibits differential and preferential railway rates far the, purpose of diverting trade from its natural course to benefit one State as…

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Bicycle Road Race

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 2

The employees of Chant and Co., Ltd, tried conclusions yesterday afternoon in a bicycle road race over a 14-[?] course between Rutherford and the Oswald turn off…

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Fatal Fall From a Train. Murrurundi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 3

A young man named William Prentice died in the local hospital this morning from injuries received by falling from a train on Tuesday night near Blandford. Leceased…

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Tramway Mens' Troubles

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 3

After a long argument on the legal question of jurisdiction, the Tramway Hoard late on Wednesday afternoon precipitately plunged into a mass of evidence dealing with the ticket system. Mr…

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A Bulgarian Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 3

A semi-official statement, issued from Sofia, announces that the question of independence has not occupied the attention of the Bulgarian Government, and the…

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The Orient Railway. The Powers Take Action. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 2

Germany and Austria demand from Bulgaria the restoration of the Orient railway to Turkey. The British foreign Minister informed Bulgaria that Great…

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Dismissal of Railway Hands

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 3

A working arrangement, between the leading railways and the depression in trade has led the Great Western Railway Company to close forty railway…

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The Singleton Argus Thrursday, October 1st, 1908. Railway Development

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 2

The importance of linking the land in the interior of this State with the centres of population containing the principal markets, by light lines of railway,…

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Braybrook Railway Disaster. An Anonymous Letter

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 3

The trial of Leonard Alifburn and Gilbert Dolmam engine-drivers, on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the railway disaster at Braybrook on Easter…

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Tarro Shire Roads. (To the Editor.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 7

Sir,—Would you kindly allow me a small space in your paper to comment on the state of our roads as we find them to-day under the control of the Shire Council. The…

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Condemned Railway Sleepers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 5

Mr. Gifbort, the member for Newcastle, keeps a watchful eye upon the condemnation in South 'Africa of railway sleepers from New South wales. He praised the Minister…

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American Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 October 1908 · page 5

They look some away ahead in the United States. The railway companies supply trains free for farmers to go in big bodies, and see how the State farms plough and…

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Great Train Robbery

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 3

A gang of 30 youths, by means of revolvers and bombs, captured the mail train from Warsaw to St. Petersburg at Bizzany. They overpowered the…

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Wilbur Wright's Aeroplane. the Fanatic of Flight

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 9

The man who walked out of the rough wooden shed to meet me wore a cloth cap and was in his shirt sleeves—I noticed that his shirt was of a curious deep green…

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The Railway Motor Car

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 October 1908 · page 4

"We are no doubt on the eve of important developments in our railway systems in Australia. So far they have been run on a too uniform system instead of being adapted to the requirements of…

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