Terrible Railway Accident in Bengal
A collision between a goods train from Calcutta and a passenger train from Goalundo occurred close to the Aranghatta station on the Eastern Bengal Railway at…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1884
178 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 9
Hatfield Road
Weather still terribly dry. During the night of Tuesday last very light rain fell, but are wednesday had passed away one would not have known any rain hrd fallen. Reports from different points, tell of heavy shower about the…
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The Liverpool Daily Post says that “two new trains that have been placed on the London and North-Western Railway, run between Liverpool and London,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Proposed Closing of Roads
At the end of three months from 4th November the undermentioned toads will be closed if no valid objections be previously lodged :—Parish of Mullengandra : The boundary road, one…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Differential Railway Rates
A good deal has been said from time to time with regard to the differential rates for carriage of goods on the Government railways. It would appear, however, that the system complained…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Road to the Altar
The following astounding story appears in a, recent number o( the German serial, Deutsche Roman-Bib[?]hok, under the title of “The Road to the Altar” :—“A younger…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Action Against the Railway Commissioners
The case of Davies against the Railway Commissioners has resulted in a verdict for plaintiff, with £1000 damages…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Bridge Tolls
The Hon. C. H. Ebden when Treasurer of the neighbouring colony sometime in the early part of 1857 is said to have detected an error in a confidential clerk’s accounts, and to have remarked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Beechworth to Yackandandah Railway
In the Victorian Legislative Assembly on the 28th ult., during the debate on the second reading of the Railways Construction Bill, Mr. Jenner said that the proposed line from…
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Several important changes in connection with the North-Eastern Railway system are notified. On Mondays in future the morning train from Beechworth will leave at five…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Government Railway Proposals. Public Meeting
A public meeting was held at the Exchange Theatre on Wednesday evening to consider the Government proposals for railway extension in this district, and various other matters of…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Railway Wagga to Tumbarumba, and Culcairn to Corowa. to the Editor of the Albury Banner
Sin,—I notice that at a meeting held in Albury, and in a leading article in the Border Post of the 6th inst., the members for the district are taken to task for not looking after the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A Train Captured by Tramps
Tho New York Times published the following communication from Newha[?]en, C[?] dated September 8:—"When the 6.30 afternoon train from Newhaven, on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dynamite Outrage in London. Attempt to Blow Up London Bridge. [By Submarine Cable.] London, December 13
Another dynamite outrage was perpetrated in London to-night. A terrific explosion took place at London-bridge, the shock being felt for many miles round the city. On…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gigantic Railway Scheme
The German and Russian newspapers give some details of a gigantic railway scheme, believed to be under consideration by the Russian Government—viz., a Great Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Tumbarumba Railway. to the Editor of the Albury Banner
SIR,—I fully expected to see some notice taken by some of our Tumbarumba friends of that public meeting held in Albury a few weeks ago, condemning the railway scheme of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Moama Bridge
THE action of the Government respecting the amount charged to the Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company for the right to use the Murray bridge from Echuca to Moama is one which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bees Stampede a Passenger Train
It is probable that no more exciting scene has been witnessed, barring a run on a bank, than the one on a North-western train between Milwaukee and Chicago one…
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