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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1915

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 62 of 62

Serbian Railways Unusable

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 December 1915 · page 5

A French engineer has received expert reports showing the damage sustained by the Serbian railways. For the German offensive it is necessary to convey supplies…

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Germany and Roumania. Hospital Train Delayed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 December 1915 · page 6

The German papers devote their energies to glorifying the success obtained in opening up the Danube. "Simplicisslmus" devotes a cartoon to the subject, and the…

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Gresford Motor Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 December 1915 · page 4

Messrs. Grey and Hancock intimate by advertisement in this issue that their motor car will leave Gresford on New Year's morning at 6.30 to catch the 8.30 a.m…

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Railway Fatality. a Soldier Mangled

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 December 1915 · page 3

Private J. H. M'Donnell, a member of the 20th Battalion, encamped at Casula, was cut to pieces by two or three trains near Casula station early…

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Motor Car Accident. Several People Badly Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 December 1915 · page 3

On Christmas afternoon Messrs J. S. Whyte (Quirindi post and telegraph master) F. Windsor (a stock dealer), R. Mettam (property-owner), Leary (stock…

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Railways and Tramways Wages and Conditions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 December 1915 · page 2

In accordance with a resolution passed recently by a mass meeting of the New South Wales Government Tramways Employees' Union, that allied associations be…

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Reserving Railway Seats

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 December 1915 · page 4

The Railway Commissioners have advised the State Premier that a system of reserving seats in first and second class carriages has been brought into operation in connection…

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Government Trams

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 December 1915 · page 4

On New Year's Day the tram service will be hourly, commencing from Victoria-street, East Maitland, at 7.30 a.m., and Campbell's Hill at 7.59, a.m., instead of as…

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Cycling. Motor Record

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 December 1915 · page 7

Erwin G. Baker, an American motor cycle and automobile trans-continental record holder, has just lowered the previous motor cycle record from Hobart to Launceston, held by…

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RELIABLE and Economical Motoring

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1915 · page 5
Also in The Scone Advocate

Just a few years ago a motor car wan considered a luxury and the farmer that could afford one was looked upon as being very wealthy. But now-a-days a…

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Private Henry M'shane Killed. Victim of Railway Accident

The Scone Advocate · Friday 31 December 1915 · page 2

The local police were apprised by wire on Wednesday that Private Henry Augustus M'Shane, of Scone, who enlisted under the name of…

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Motor Car Accident. Several People Badly Injured

The Scone Advocate · Friday 31 December 1915 · page 6

On Christmas afternoon, Messrs. J. S. Whyte (Quirindi post and telegraph master), Fos. Windsor (stock dealer, and formerly of Scone),…

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Wages on the Trams and Trains

The Scone Advocate · Friday 31 December 1915 · page 6

Rather disquieting is the intelligence that the tramway and railway employees are conferring this week, and that there is no…

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