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New England · Railways, roads & transport
33 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 2
THOSE interested in the extension of the Great Northern Railway beyond Tamworth will be glad to learn that the work of constructing that section of the line…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE schoolmaster at Glenrowan, Mr. Curnow, who was the means of preventing the wreck of the pilot-engine, and probably the train conveying the police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →IT is now nearly 40 years since Professor "Page's discovery in electricity suggested to him the possibility of an electric railway ; but in those days the costly galvanic battery was the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHEN I was just seventeen, a cadet at West Point, I was on my way home for the first time within three years. Early in the morning I took my seat in the cars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A CORONER'S in quest on the body of Peter Mullally, burnt at his camp on the Bundarra road, was held on Friday last, before Mr. Coroner Fraser, and a jury of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE opening of the Gara Bridge was celebrated last Saturday. There were about 40 persons present, mostly from Armidale. After Mr. Donnelly had inspected and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON Sunday last a man named [?] shot man of the name of Joseph [?] deliberately through the breast, at Jamieson's Creek, about 35 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LAST Saturday, at the invitation of Mr. Alexander Amos (of the firm of A. and R. Amos, contractors for the extension of the Great Northern Railway from this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ONE day the usually impassive Leger Sombreker (an engine driver on the Lyons railway) was found in the engine shed giving way to a furious storm of passion because some one had made a great stain of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ONE of the largest fires ever known in Sydney broke out about ten minutes after 12 o'clock this morning, at the Railway Station, Sydney. The damage has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →R. PRESTON and wife, a couple who were recently happily united, arrived in Arkansas, en route for Texas. The story of their marriage is a rather romance one ; not that it abounds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →R. PRESTON and wife, a couple who were recently happily united, arrived in-Arkansas, en route for Texas. The story of their marriage is a rather romance one ; not that it abounds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"TAKE your seats if you are going on Right!" These words, followed by a shrill whistle, echoed by the shriek of the locomotive, are the sounds we associate in…
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