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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1889

191 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 10

Original Correspondence. We do not identify ourselves with, nor are we to be held responsible for, opinions expressed by our correspondents. Doolan's Road. To the Editor

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 July 1889 · page 4

SIR.-- To any impartial observer of our council proceedings (both shire and borough) it is evident local goverment administration is getting from bad to…

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Railway Meeting at Booligal

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 July 1889 · page 2

A meeting of the residents of Booligal and the surrounding district, was held at the local courthouse on Friday last, to take into consideration the advisableness of asking the…

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The First Cantilever Bridge

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 July 1889 · page 2

The most unique bridge in Japan is the monkey bridge that one sees in the Kofukaido before reaching the town of Kofu, writes a St. Louis Globe correspondent. It spans a…

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An Extraordinary Railway Excursion

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 July 1889 · page 10

An amusing story (says the New York correspondent of the Melbourne Age) comes from the eastern part of the United States about the stoppage of a railway train by…

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Proposed Railway Extension

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 July 1889 · page 37

Mr. J. A. Wallace, M.LC., accompanied by Mr. J. S. Batters, M L.C., and Mr. Ferguson, M L.A., on Wednesday introduced a large deputation, asking for the construction of a…

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The First Cantilever Bridge

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 August 1889 · page 2

The most unique bridge in Japan is the monkey bridge that one secs in the Kofukaido before reaching tho town of Kofu, write a St. Louis Clone correspondent. It spans a…

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The Premier on the Railway, Commissioners

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 August 1889 · page 4

SIR Henry Parkes has rarely spoken more plainly, and probably never with more loudly-expressed approval from his opponents (says the Daily Telegraph) than he…

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Mr Bruce Smith on Railways

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 August 1889 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly last week, in taking the preliminary stops for referring certain proposed railways to the Public Works Committee for…

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Corowa-culcairn Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 August 1889 · page 7

THE following is the answer of the Secretary for Public Works to Mr. Lyne's query about the omission of the Corowa-Culcairn line as reported…

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The Corowa Culcairn Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 August 1889 · page 4

HAD the telegram containing the information that the Corowa-Culcairn Railway had been referred to the Public Works Committee, been…

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Proposed Railway From the Rock to Urana

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 August 1889 · page 5
Also in The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express

SOME time ago tho route for a line of railway was surveyed from The Rock railway station to Urana. The line, if made according to the survey,…

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The Corowa Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 August 1889 · page 15

In the Legislative Assembly on the 31st nit. Mr. Lyne said : I understand that the railway from Culcairn to Corowa was not submitted to the House last night with the other railways…

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The Corowa Bridge. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 20

The Minister for Works, in reply to Mr. Lyne, to-night stated that the Corowa bridge will cost £15,000, and that tenders will be invited at once, pending further communication with Victoria as…

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Latest by Telegraph the Corowa Bridge. Sydney, Thursday, 7.30 P.m

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 2

In reply to a question by Mr. W. J. Lyne to-night the Minister Works said that the Corowa Wahgunyah bridge would cost £15.000. but that although Victoria bad…

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The Pilatus Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 36

One of the most noteworthy feats of modern mountain engineering is the cogwheel railway from Alpnach-Stad to Pilatus Kulm—6724 feet above the level of the sea—…

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A Terrible Tramp

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 August 1889 · page 26

The following letter from an ex-resident of Tasmania, dated Charters Towers, Queensland, 16th July, gives a vivid picture of the hard ships endured and difficulties overcome…

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The Deniliquin Road

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 August 1889 · page 2

FOR many years the Corowa public has been content with what it has pleased the powers that have been to call a substitute for a main road--to wit…

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The Corowa-culcairn Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 August 1889 · page 2

SPEAKING at the Corowa show banquet, Mr. W. J. LYNE announced his railway creed in words something like these:-- "The point that all had to look to was…

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Proposed Railway From Yerong Creek to Urana

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 23 August 1889 · page 3

A LARGELY attended meeting of farmers and others from Urangeline Creek, Four Corners, Mittagong and Yerong Creek, was held at the residence of Mr. H. Hughes,…

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