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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
1,527 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 29 of 77
On June 30, 1909, there were 943 miles of private railways open for the general traffic in the Commenwealth. Of this mileage, 141 miles were in New South Wales, 14 miles in Victoria, 346 miles in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A gruesome descovery was made early on Thursday morning Oil the railway line near Ipswich (Q.). The body of a woman was found lying across the rails…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Count Jacques do Lesseps on a Bleriot monoplane flew from Calais to St. Margaret's Bay, on the English coast., in 30 minutes. The day was huzy, and Count de Lesseps saw the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five motor boats left [?] in a heavy storm, racing to Havana; about 1300 miles. This Is one of the longest and most daring courses attempted by motor craft…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, Sunday.—M. de Losseps, the grandson of the builder of the Suez Canal, rose in an. aeroplane at Calais to a height of 2800 feet. He described a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Allan Woodman, a New Zealand motorist, has had his leg amputated, and is in a serious condition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The louder of Griffiths and Co., of London-wall. London, for the construction of the mountainous section of the new Chilian railway for [?]1,250,000 has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two trains on the Michigan Central Railway carried the delegates to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers the 224 miles from Dotroit to the Niagara Falls, in Canada, in 224 and 212 minutes respectively…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, pronounced Bewley, was one of the pioneers of automobiling, and may fairly pretend to know all there is to know about a car. In a recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Travelling by rail recently between Teign-mouth and Starcross, a Devonshire sportsman well over three-score years, but hale and hearty as a map half that age, told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →San Francisco, Tuesday.—The express train running between Texas and St. Louis was wrecked to-day at Rogiers. Of the 35 persons Who were injured at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Brenman mono- railway ha been installed the British Japan Exhibition, and the public we able to make trial trips…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An agreement has been signed at Paris admitting the American group of capitalists to participation with British, French, and German groups in the Hankau-Szechan railway lone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The attention of people residing; in the districts to bo sowed by those sections of the North Coast railway now under construction, has lately been attracted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A new Grawert aeroplane, the distinctive feature of which is that it can be easily propelled along the ground on thorougiffares, has been satisfactory tested…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Empire Day at Bishop's Bridge was celebrated by a school picnic although judging by the number of youths and adults present it was hard to tell whether it was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The flight from London to Manchester is accomplished (writes the "S.M. Herald's London correspondent), and the "Daily Mail's" £10,000 prize, long on offer, has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The general secretary of the Political Labour League, Mr. J. Grant, has received a complaint from Mr. Donald Macgregor, president of the P. P. L., and the branch of the Railway Workers'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Brennan is laying 110 miles of mono railway in mountainous country in Alaska, U. S. A., in extension of the present railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In connection with the petition presented by Mr. John Gillies, M.L.A., asking for an alteration in the 5.40 a.m. train from West Maitland, for the convenience of workmen…
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