The Tramps Daughter. -- (Concluded.)
"An accident !" gasped Frank; "why, be au[?]ed his gun right at me !" "It was an accident, I tell you, Frank, dear," answered Lily, smoothing the hair…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1886
178 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 9
The Proposed Railway Association
The Minister for Works last Friday received large deputation of railway and tramway employes, whose object was to induce Mr. Lyne to revoke Mr. Goodchap’a circular forbidding…
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Mr. R. Vagg writes as follows to the Deniliquin Chronicle:— SIR,—Although not living exactly in your midst I take a great deal of interest in your doings at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Turning the Points. a Railway Porter's Story. Told to His Vicar
Bob Scratcherty was a parishioner of mine, and a strange specimen of a parishioner for any clergyman to own. He was a rugged, grizzly man of about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Another Serious Railway Accident. Narrow Escape of the Passengers. the Governor in the Train
A serious accident, which might have been attended by terrible results, occurred on the Southern line in South Australia on Monday. The passenger train which left Port Victor at…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Tramway Accident in Sydney
Several members of the Victorian bowling team, within an hour after their arrival in Sydney on the 22nd inst., had a very narrow escape from serious injury. On reaching the…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Terrible Railway Accident in South Australia. Five Men Killed and Three Wounded
A terrible accident occurred on the Hergott and Strangways Railway works on Wednesday night, 21st inst., resulting in five men being killed and three wounded, though not…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Light Railways
The gist of Sir John Fowler's report is as follows: Let me take the liberty of advising that with your light railways more than usual pains should be taken by the responsible engineers to obtain the best…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mulwala Bridge
THE promoters of the Mulwala Bridge scheme have consoled themselves for a long series of disappointments by passing a resolution urging the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opening of the Yarrawonga Railway
THE railway from St. James to Yarrawonga was opened on Wednesday, in the presence of a Ministerial party and a great number of people. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Portable Railway. Science
A patent has been taken out for a railroad which can be laid down and taken up with astonishing case and despatch. The elaborate processes usually entailed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shocking Accident at a Railway Station. a Guard Decapitated. Sydney
A shocking accident occurred this morning on the railway line at the Ashfield station. At two o'clock, a shunting train was at work, when the engine-driver's attention was called…
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The opening of the line of railway from St. James to Yarrawonga took place on Wednesday. The extension is the first railway built under the Act of 1884, and is meant to serve the large…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →The Yarrawonga and Mulwala Bridge
THE Yarrawonga Chronicle has been favored with the following letter for publication: -- Department of Public Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Road From Derby. The same correspondent writes :—
Messrs. Mallet and M'Ewan, who were despatched by the Government Resident and the Roads Board on January 1 to look out for a good dray track to the fields, returned on…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Railway Employees' Association
Mr. Lyne, the Minister for Public Works, has written the following minute in reference the proposed Railway Employes Association :—" On April 9 last a deputation from…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Serious Railway Accident at Bowral. Eleven Persons Injured
A serious railway accident, by which eleven persons were more or less injured, took place at half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday afternoon within the distance signals at Bowral, the…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Dastardly Attempt to Wreck a Train
At Bathurst on the morning of the 13th inst., Mr. B Cutler, manager for Wright, Heaton and Co., discovered that a dastardly attempt had been made during the night to…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Railway Meeting at Burra[?]
A meeting hastily convened was held at the Woolpack Hotel on the evening of 12th May, to take into consideration the rumor that on the Culcairn and Corowa railway, now in course of…
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