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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1897

230 stories in New England's papers · page 3 of 12

Local Roads—Unfair Votes

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 March 1897 · page 2

During the recess the member for Armidale has been travelling on some of the public roads of the Northern part of the colony, and he has arrived…

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Hillgrove Road Deviation

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 17 March 1897 · page 2

IT has proved a difficult matter to fix up the deviation from the Grafton Road to Hillgrove satisfactorily. The first new departure, designed to…

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Traveller. Cycling on French Roads

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 1

A clergyman who made a tour through France on his bicycle during the past summer punctured his tyres so frequently upon the highways of that country that he always…

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Fiction. the Bridge-walker. (Concluded from our last issue.)

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 2

The kind of mining that Hank was now witnessing was very interesting. At the same time it had elements of danger for the on-looker, and he,…

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Railway Conference

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 19 March 1897 · page 3

A PRELIMINARY meeting of the delegates appointed to consider the question of railway communication between the Clarence and Inverell was held in the luncheon pavilion on the Show Ground,…

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Moree to Inverell Railway

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 20 March 1897 · page 3

The question put before the members of the Public Works Committee on Tuesday afternoon was the further consideration of the proposed railway…

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Railway Conference

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 March 1897 · page 2

THE following gentlemen attended the Railway Conference on Thursday evening, to receive the report of the subcommittee:--Messrs. W. A. B. Greaves, T. Page, T…

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Railway Management on Commercial Lines

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 2

GREAT complaints are made by New Englanders in repaid to the difficulty of obtaining information in reference to the runuing of special excursion…

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Railway Conference at Glen Innes

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 24 March 1897 · page 4

A meeting of delegates from Grafton, Inverell, Glen Innes, and Guyra was held at Glen Innea on Thursday to urge on the Government the…

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The City Railway. Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 5

An expert witness before the Royal Commission on railway extension into the city, stated yesterday that the cost of land necessary for the construction of the railway…

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City Railway Scheme

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 3

An expert witness before the Royal Commission on the railway extension into the city, stated yesterday that the cost of the land necessary for construction, to avoid…

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Hunting Tramps with Search Lights

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1897 · page 3

SOME of the Paris policemen on night, duty have been provided with electric lamps, which seem, so far, to have answered their purpose…

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The Railway Conference

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1897 · page 3

AT a meeting of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday evening the President (Mr. T. M'Kittrick) said the conference at Glen Innes had been successful mainly…

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Russia Borrowing Railway Construction

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 2

Russia is borrowing £9,000,000 for railway construction…

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Moree-inverell Railway

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 2

The debate on the proposed MoreeInverell railway was continued by the Public Works Committee to-day, and farther adjourned…

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Railway Accident

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 2

The engine and two carriages of the Sydney to Melbourne express left the rails at Yass last night, caused through running into a calf…

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Moree to Inverell Railway. Sydney, Thursday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 5

THE question of the expediency of carrying out the proposed railway from Moree to Inverell was further considered by the Public Works Committee this afternoon…

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Yesterday's News. [Through Our Special Agents.] [By Telegeaph.] Proposed Railway Line. Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 5

THE Railway Commissioners have reported unfavourably on the financial prospects of the proposed railway line from Singleton to Jerry's Plains…

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The Grafton-GIen Innes Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 2

THE following is a copy of the petition prepared for signature in the Inverell, Glen Innes, Grafton, and Clarence River districts :-- To the HON. MINISTER FOR PUBLIC WORKS,…

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