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Trackwork from 6am Monday 21 November - 8pm Friday 25 November. From Monday 21 November to Friday 25 November ARTC will deliver more than $20 million worth of maintenance work, renewing and upgrading track, ballast, sleepers and structures like bridges, culverts and level crossings right through the Hunter Valley.
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Jul 23, 2021The first regular operation of internal combustion in the Hunter Valley occurred during an extended coal miner's strike in the 1940s, when a Silver City Comet diesel train (which normally operated between Parkes and Broken Hill) was transferred to Sydney to substitute for the steam-hauled Newcastle Express.
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One for the beer lovers, AEROlogistics Beer & Wine Tour will take you on a lovely ride over the valley en-route to Ironbark Hill Brewhouse/Peter Drayton Wines and Potter's Brewery. Taste some of the Hunter's best craft beers (or wine if you prefer) before enjoying an authentic pub lunch. Cheers. Duration: 3 hours.
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Jun 24, 2019Wine tourism in the Hunter Valley currently contributes over $500 million to our local economy annually, it also provides 2,800 jobs. The forecast growth of international (inbound) tourism in ...
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The Hunter Valley is the oldest commercial wine-producing area in Australia, and a major site for coal mining. Internationally acclaimed wines have poured out of the Hunter since the early 1800s. ... The Upper Hunter gives way to the forested heights of the World Heritage-listed Barrington Tops National Park. The ruggedly beautiful park is home ...
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Nov 20, 2021In 2028 the Hunter Valley will celebrate 200 years as a wine-growing region. Degen says you "couldn't reverse the damage that would be done" if the assessment lease receives the green light.
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4 Drayton South Coal Project—Heritage Report, October 2013 2.0 Heritage Listings and Planning Context 2.1 Introduction This section provides a brief overview of the heritage listings that apply to the properties inspected. The heritage provisions of the Hunter Regional Environmental Plan 1989 (now State Environmental
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The river was named Hunter River, in honour of Governor Hunter, by Lieutenant Shortland, its discoverer. The native name of the river was "Coquon." Shortland discovered the river in September, 1797, when in quest of convicts who had seized the Cumberland - the Government boat for trading to the Hawkesbury. - Ante, pp. 347, 481.
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Historic Hunter Valley coal mining town in the heart of the Greta Seam Coalfields. ... The locomotives are now heritage protected and take visitors for steam-train rides on the first three Sundays of each month and every Sunday during School Holidays. Gates open at 10.00 am and close at 4.00 pm. The first train leaves at 10.30 am.
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Richmond Vale Railway Museum is located in an attractive bushland setting off Leggetts Drive Richmond Vale, approximately 4km south of the Hunter Valley township of Kurri Kurri. It is the only operating heritage railway north of the Hawkesbury. The museum is a family-friendly location. In addition to the historical displays, the site offers the ...
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The NSWHC is warning about irreversible impacts on heritage sites in the Hunter Valley, reminiscent of the Juukan Gorge outrage in Western Australia. Glencore wants to bulldoze and excavate on sites recording some of the most brutal frontier violence in NSW in the mid-1820s, including a site of a likely massacre.
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The NSW Independent Planning Commission has delayed its determination on a major coal mine expansion in the Hunter Valley just days before it was due, after lobbying by stakeholders. The NSW ...
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The Maxwell project will have an initial mine life of 26 years and produce high quality coals, which are 75 per cent capable of being used for steelmaking. It has a total JORC mineral resource of ...
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Hunter Valley Operations, one of the biggest mining operations in the area has a public viewing platform where its main coaling operations can be viewed of Lemmington Road between Singleton and Muswellbrook and there are many vantage points of several different mines along this road, the Golden Highway and the New England Highway.
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2007-2012 Hunter Valley Strategy - Consultation Document (6,408kb) Liverpool Range New Route Selection Study - Project Conclusions. Download the complete Press Release in PDF format. ARTC to Consult Coal Industry on New Hunter Valley Coal Network Strategy. 2006-2011 Hunter Valley Coal Network Capacity Improvement Strategy
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The Hunter River supports a large population and a diverse range of important water users. Water users include Hunter Water Corporation, which supplies the City of Newcastle; local councils; power generators, which provide most of the electricity used in NSW; major coal mines, that make Newcastle the largest coal exporting port in the world; other heavy industry; horse and cattle studs; and ...
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Supreme Court battle looms as $1.5b Huntlee new town attempts to evict Hunter Valley Railway Trust and its $10m heritage train collection from North Rothbury. By ... the former Coal and Allied land - in the original Huntlee development, which has changed hands since, HVRT negotiated a lease agreement at no cost to keep the collection on the ...
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From 1800 coal was mined in the Hunter Valley and later in the Illawarra where companies such as the Australian Agricultural Company used assigned government convicts to carry out operations. From the 1850s gold attracted thousands of migrants seeking to make their fortune who brought the Eureka Stockade collective ethos into Australian working ...
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the Project represents a diversification of coal production in the Muswellbrook area. The Project site is located in a part of the Upper Hunter Valley that forms an interface between the traditional open cut coal mining operations to the north and northeast and some of the State's most valuable agricultural lands to the south and southwest.
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Hunter Valley Operations Hunter Valley Operations (HVO), located 24 kilometres north-west of Singleton in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales (NSW), supplying international markets with thermal coal and semi-soft coking coal.
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NBN is an Australian television station based in Newcastle, Australia.The station was inaugurated on 4 March 1962 as the first regional commercial television station in New South Wales, and has since expanded to 39 transmitters throughout Northern New South Wales, including the Gold Coast, Queensland, Lismore, New South Wales, Tweed Heads, Tamworth, Coffs Harbour, Newcastle, and Central Coast.
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The Hunter Valley Railway Trust (HVRT) is a railway museum located in North Rothbury, New South Wales Australia on the site of the Rothbury Riot. It includes various types of rolling stock, such as coal and freight wagons and passenger coaches, and a variety of ex-New South Wales Government Railways locomotives. It also included seven of the fourteen heritage-listed South Maitland Railways 10 ...
Get priceThe Hunter Valley is a prime tourism location, with estimates of 6.3 million visitors per year spending $1.3 billion with the vineyards and the racing studs a large part of the attraction of the region. The thoroughbred and winemaking industries have made it clear that their future viability is on the line if the planned coal expansions go ahead.
Get priceDec 13, 2021Glencore is seeking approval to build a new open-cut pit and mine an additional 135 million tonnes of coal until 2044. But a Wonnarua Indigenous group believes the project will cause the destruction of centuries of Aboriginal history. The heritage protection application covers Hunter Valley coal mines including Liddell, Mount Owen, and Glendell.
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The Hunter Valley coal chain is an extensive, multi-billion dollar network of public and privately funded infrastructure of mines, railways, port, coal loaders, and ships that link the region’s coal reserves to global markets. ... From historic homes to old slab huts, the voracious march of mines threatens our heritage. Newcastle Herald ...
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Council, Hunter Valley Wine Industry Association, and Thoroughbred Breeders of the Hunter Valley. The draft Strategic Regional Land Use Plans for the Upper Hunter and New England North West Regions were exhibited for public comment between 8 March and 14 May 2012. During this time approximately 1,600 written submissions were received.
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East Coast Heritage Rail is proud to announce the purchase of former Victorian Railways third series X class locomotive X54. We plan to return X54 to operational condition, which will allow us to expand our tour offerings. ... It saw use for a brief period in 2018 to support Aurizon's Hunter Valley coal and grain operations, however it was ...
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Mt Owen Pty Ltd (the Applicant) sought approval to extend the Barrett Pit at its Glendell Coal Mine, 20km northwest of Singleton, to recover an additional 1.97 million tonnes of run-of-mine (ROM) coal. The Department of Planning, Industry and Environment's whole-of-government assessment report found the proposed modification would result in:
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The Hunter Valley has a proud heritage spanning more than 150 years of thoroughbred breeding. This is exemplified by the Widden Stud - one of the oldest family owned studs in the world with a proud tradition of passing the art of breeding commercial thoroughbreds and champion racehorses seamlessly from father to son.
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The increased capacity of the port to export coal has resulted in bottlenecks further up the Hunter Valley Coal Chain (HVCC), the complex and rapidly growing network of mining, rail and port operations that reaches over 450 kilometres and "is driven by the need to export very large coal volumes from a very concentrated network" (Hunter ...
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Jun 7, 2022For more than a century, the NSW Hunter Valley has been a coal mining hub. The landscape is pockmarked with open cut mines, and the proposed expansion of one of these mines has divided the community.
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Mr Gay said construction of the new Aurizon facility would stimulate jobs and provide long term economic growth for the Hunter Valley coal industry. "The Aurizon facility represents a major investment in the local community and a vote of confidence in the long-term outlook for the Hunter Valley coal industry," he said.
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The Mount Pleasant Operation is characterised by a low strip ratio and high processing yield. As such, Mount Pleasant's leases contain some of the most attractive coal resources in the Hunter Valley coalfields. The Mount Pleasant Operation is approved to produce up to 10.5 million tonnes of run of mine (ROM) thermal coal for international ...
Get priceHunter Valley Coal Chain Newcastle shares a rich history of coal being loaded for export in the Port of Newcastle for over 200 years. We receive coal through rail receival stations, stockpile the coal, blend the coal using unique blending methods and load the coal onto cargo vessels.
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Horse racing is part of Australia's heritage and history. It is one of our oldest sports - dating back to 1810 when the first official thoroughbred race meeting was staged by Governor Macquarie in Hyde Park, Sydney. ... Our campaign in the Hunter Valley is not against all coal mining.
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Whether you are a lover of wine and great food, a lover of natural beauty and wildlife, or a water sports enthusiast, the Hunter Valley has it all. Hunter Valley Wine Country: The Hunter Valley is a 2 hour drive North of Cosmopolitan Sydney and the region now yields more than a hundred wineries and cellar doors, embracing the developing areas ...
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On 20 September 2012, the Australian Government entered into an agreement with the NSW Government to undertake a strategic assessment of a biodiversity plan for coal mining in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW. The strategic assessment will be undertaken in accordance with national environmental law, specifically section 146 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC ...
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The EMM cultural heritage team specialises in research, field assessment, heritage management, planning and archaeological field services of Aboriginal and historic period sites. ... EMM personnel have worked on mining sites across major coal fields in NSW, land development projects in the greater Sydney and Hunter Valley regions, and major ...
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The Wattle Lodge, Glendon Brook, Hunter Valley NSW. The Wattle Lodge is a cosy cottage set on 100 acres of stunning farmland between the Pokolbin vineyards and Barrington Tops. This eco-friendly lodge in Glendon Brook sits on a cattle grazing property, proudly held by the same family for four generations.
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