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Railways, roads & transport, 1867

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Opening of the Mont Cenis Railway

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1867 · page 3

The two Alpine railways, the one through and the other over Mont Cenis are both bold engineering projects, but the last-named exhibits, if it may be said without offence, the…

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The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, December 26, 1867. Repairing Roads

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 December 1867 · page 2

SOME time ago the municipal board of the Booroondara Road District, in Victoria, requested their engineer, Mr. Edwin Brown, to prepare a report on the best method of…

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Remarkable Railway Robbery

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1867 · page 5

A robbery, which is unparalleled from its daring and the manner in which it was effected, was perpetrated on Friday evening, October 11, oa the North-Eastern Railway, within six miles…

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