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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1889

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The New South Wales Railways. London, November 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1889 · page 18

The weekly paper Engineering asserts that the New South Wales railways are in a state of decrepitude in consequence of the starvation policy which has been pursued by the…

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Yerong and Urana Railway League

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 November 1889 · page 19

A general meeting of the above was held at Mr. Hughes's, Four Corners, on Saturday, 16th November, for the purpose of receiving the report of the deputation who lately waited…

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Victorian Railway Service Mutual Association

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 November 1889 · page 24

The dinner given by the Wodonga branch of the Victorian Railway Service Mutual Association on Thursday evening, at Hillier's hotel, was attended by about eighty persons, including the…

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Upper Murray Railway League

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 November 1889 · page 19

A meeting of committee was held on Thursday evening, Mr. Slattery in the chair. The secretary explained what had been done at the last meeting, when the decision to appoint…

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Railway Robbery in America. London, November 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 November 1889 · page 24

Fifteen masked robbers boarded a railway train in America, robbing the mails and the passengers, and then decamped with 30,000 dollars…

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The Great Bridge Over the [?]Irth of Forth

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 December 1889 · page 19

In a recent issue we published a telegram announcing the completion of the great bridge over the Firth in Scotland. In connection with this event the following account of the…

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The Corowa-culcairn Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 December 1889 · page 3

IN the Assembly, on 27th November, Mr. Crick (for Mr. Lyne) asked the Secretary for Public Works:--In view of the favourable report of the Public Works Committee…

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Berger V Commissioners for Railways

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 December 1889 · page 2

In Chambers on Friday last His Honor, Judge Foster, delivered judgment on the defendants' application for a rule nisi to set as side the verdict in the District Court. The…

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The Sydney Express Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 December 1889 · page 2

EFFORTS are being made by the various local bodies in the North-Eastern district, and by the Corowa Progress Committee, to induce the Victorian…

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The Corowa-culcairn Railway. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 December 1889 · page 2

THE Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works has finally adopted its report on the above line. In the Assembly to-night Mr. Hayes…

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Original Correspondence. the Hay Train and a Bent Axle. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 December 1889 · page 2

Sir,—Upon the arrival of the train here on Christmas Day from Hay it was discovered that the axle of a truck apparently loaded with wool was bent, and there ensued a most…

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