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Murray · Railways, roads & transport
30 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 2
An express train on the Great Western Railway went off the rails near Shipton, and the carriages were precipitated into a canal. Thirty persons were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →LONDON, December 26—The railway accident which occurred on Thursday afternoon on the Great Western line at Sbipton is unparalleled in the history of railway disasters. The train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, December 26—Yesterday an express train on the North Western Railway Line dashed into a coal train at Wigan. One person was killed on the spot and twenty injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Complaints are numerous and bitter against the Victoria Railway department, on account of the damage done to goods while in transit, more particularly by unnecessary delay in the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The scheme for the construction of our transcontinental railway is for the present at an end—the Government, on Thursday, declined to amended terms of Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A prevalent notion among the advocates of narrow gauge railways is that lines so constructed admit of heavier traffic by means of lighter rolling stock, but that assumption…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Hay asked Colonial Secretary :—“ 1st. Has any letter or minute been sent by the Government of New South Wales to the Government of Victoria, whereby the Government of this colony agrees to pay half the cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I reached the little Welsh town of Abermaw one boisterous afternoon in autumn at about 4 o’clock, after having a long tramp over the mountains. Abermaw, as its name…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Railway department seems to have a strong dislike to publicity. The value of any information is enhanced by the difficulty in getting hold of it. If…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The following letter appeared in the Argus of Tuesday last:— “Sir,—A paragraph copied into the Argus of this day from the Border Post, published at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We have received a small pamphlet containing a report of the proceedings at a late meeting of the Railway Reform Association, a society recently established at Ballarat, and whose…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Whether the final accomplishment of the work of constructing the railway from Moama to Deniliquin, will contribute to the advantage of the commercial interests of Echuca,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The result of the meeting held in the Town Hall on Thursday night, to consider the bridge question, was just what might have been expected, and when such a large majority…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →What the ratepayers of Wodonga and Kiewa have to expect from the Yackandandah Shire Council, while it retains its present constitution, was shown by the action taken at last…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →When human life has been lost at the crossing of the Yackandandah creek it is possible the idea may occur to the Shire Council that [?]n expending the municipal funds they ought…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →GENTLEMAN,—In plating before you the balance-sheet for the period ending the 30th June last, the Directors have to report that the whole of the shares authorised by the Act to be issued have taken up, and the full capital of £125,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The second ordinary meeting of the shareholders the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was held at the Royal Hotel, Deniliquin, on Monday last, the 2nd instant. About fifty shareholders were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Relative to the proposed erection of a bridge over the Mitta Mitta river, at Bethanga, at the joint expense of the Yackandandah and Towong Shire Councils, as…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Mr. Hanna called the attention of the [?] of Railways and Roads to the conditions of [?] the [?] of a bridge over the river [?] and asked him how the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Arbitration Court, appointed under the Railway Company's Act to determine the amount of compensation [?] to Sir John O‘Shauassy for certain land [?] station, owned by him, and required for…
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