Our Proposed Railway
THE agitation for direct railway communication between Deniliquin and Sydney, commenced about six months since, had only a flickering existence from the beginning. Its…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1883
141 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 8
The Albury Railway Extension
We had an opportunity of visiting the works of the Albury railway extension a few days since, and found that very satisfactory progress was being made. The stone met with in…
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A serious railway accident happened on Thursday night on the branch of the great Southern Railway, between Junee and Hay, The axle of one of the trucks loaded with bricks broke, while the train…
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Mre Hutchinson, Mite Turnbull, and Messra Lawrence, [?] and [?] are the person [?] in the railway accident be [?] Junee and Hay last night. Two of the persons [?]…
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ELECTRICITY is gradually but steadily replacing gas and petroleum for lighting purposes, and is now even beginning to replace steam as a motive power. But few electric railways…
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WE mentioned in our last issue that every preparation had been made to introduce the barrier system to the Wahgunyah and Rutherglen stations,…
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An alarming accident occurred on the 11th inst. to the tram which runs between Junee and Hay, at Grong Grong, about 13 miles from Narandera. It was a mixed train,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Wodonga Railway Contract
On the last occasion upon which we reported progress with regard to the Wodonga railway extension, the Wodonga contractors were considerably in advance of the Albury contractor,…
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Mr. Hordern, from New South Wales, has had an interview with the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia on the subject of a vast railway scheme on which his principals, an…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company
The following is a copy of the Report to be presented to the shareholders t the Seventeenth Half-yearly meeting to be held on Tuesday the 6th February, 1883, at the Company’s Office,…
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WE do not know whether Mr Stewart’s Government will pursue the same policy as that adopted by the Parkes administration with reference to railway freights between Junee and Hay and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wahgunyah Murray Bridge Company
THE ordinary half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company was convened to be held last Saturday at the Wahugunyah Hotel. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wagga Progress Committee and the Tumbarumba Railway
A meeting of the Wagga Progress Committee was held last Monday evening, when there were present; Messrs. W. Taylor (chair), Reynolds, P. Rogers, M’Grath, Burgess,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The North Shore Bridge
THE more the notorious North Shore Bridge business in ventilated the more apparent does the magnitude of the political swindle become, and the more iniquitous do the stealthy acts of the late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →George Francis Train
According to a Melbourne correspondent, Mr. O'Leary, the long-distance pedestrian, who has just arrived from the States, tells that some few months ago he met Mr. George…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Drugged and Robbed in a Railway Carriage
A story that has been told the police by a man named Ambrose Taylor is perhaps one of the strangest in the records of the colony. Taylor states that he took the train at Horsham…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Surgical Outfits for Railways
The Pennsylvania Railway Company has, we learn from the New York Medical Record, purchased 2000 tin boxes containing a few surgical materials likely to be used in cases of…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →The Deniliquin and Moama Railway
A meeting of the shareholders in the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was held at the office of the company at Deniliquin on Tuesday last; Mr George Simmie in the chair. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Tram Accident
On Saturday afternoon at about half-past 4 o’clock a serious tramway accident occurred at the junction of Elizabeth and Liverpool-streets, Sydney. A motor with three tramcars left…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Accident at the Bathurst Railway Station
One night last week (the Bathurst Times reports) one of the goods trains was being shunted, and a young man named John Webster was engaged in the work. By mistake he uncoupled…
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