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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1926

4,039 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 65 of 202

Local and General. Railway Revenue

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1926 · page 4

The goods revenue received at the East Maitland Railway Station for last month amounted to £312/15/7. The revenue, for the corresponding…

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Proposed Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1926 · page 4

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., has received an acknowledgement in regard to representations on behalf of the town clerk of Muswellbrook…

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Final Motor Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1926 · page 4

The final motor carnival for the season will be held on the Maitland Speedway on Saturday evening next. In aid of the Maitland Ambulance…

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Motor Cycle Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1926 · page 4

A special meeting of the Maitland Motor Cycle Club will be held at Mr. A. Tegg's offices, High-street, West Maitland, this evening. Members are…

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Frightful Death. Cut to Pieces by Train. Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 May 1926 · page 5

Frank Sewartz, employed as a cleaner in the Roma-street locomotive shed, was run down and cut to pieces, in the railway yards at…

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Railways Affected

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 May 1926 · page 2

The closing down of the coal mines has had a serious effect on the operations at the Bathrust Railway Depot. The shortage of coal trains has…

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Final Motor Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 May 1926 · page 4

At the final motor cycle carnival to be held on the Maitland Speedway on Saturday night the 15th instant, an important function will take place…

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Singleton Motor Cycle Club

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 May 1926 · page 2

A meeting of the Singleton Motor Cycle Club was held on Tuesday night. Present were Messrs C. Littlejohn, L. Severs, L. Dickinson, J. Griffin, S…

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Our Roads

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 3

While not agreeing in the main with Cr. Bell's remarks at the last meeting of the Muswellbrook Shire Council his observations have served to draw…

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Aherglasslya -[?] Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 4

Mr. w. F. O Hearn, M.L.A., has been informed that the Minister of Local Government. Mr. Fitzgerald. will. on his return from Queensland, have a…

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Tomalla Developmental Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 6

At last meeting of Upper Hunter Shire Council (Scone) a letter was read from the Clerk, Gloucester Shire Council, stating that…

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Branxton-elderslie Road. a Big Improvement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 3

The Cessnock - Branxton - Elders[?]e road was the subject of a report by Mr. W. R. Lindsay, engineer of the Cessnock Shire, at the administrator's…

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Cable Breaks. Scare in Electric Train. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 5

While an electric train was passing through Fairfield, the overhead cables fell on to the train, smashing windows and' scaring passengers…

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Overturned Car Found. Accident on Muswellbrood Road

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 8

A car was found overturned on the Main Northern Road about three miles on the Singleton side of Muswellbrook on Tuesday morning, and…

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Aberdeen Railway Crossing Fatality. Coroners Scathing Remarks

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Swaddling) held an inquiry at Mus wellbrook last week, touching on the death of Mrs. E. A, Thorley, the…

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Motor Collision

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 2

Several people had narrow escapes when two cars crashed into each other and overturned at the intersection of Carthgate and White Streets, Tam…

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Railway Employee Injured

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 2

Mr. G. Freund, an examiner at the local railway, while effecting repairs to a carriage on Sunday night, slipped and sustained painful injuries. We…

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Head On. Tram and Car Smash. Five Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 6

When a motor car and a tram crashed together practically head-on at the corner of Oxford and William streets, Paddington, last night, five…

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Motor Body Workers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 4

It appears probable that an extenslon of the trouble will take place during the week-end. Notices have been posted p in all te motor body…

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Fatal Motor Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 3

When returing from attending, the funeral of Mr. Alex MeKenzie, of Stroud, on Sunday Mr. George McDonald, a resident of Maitland, and one of the firm of…

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