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Railways, roads & transport, 1891

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The Railway Strike in Scotland. London, December 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Thursday 1 January 1891 · page 23

The strike of the railway employ it in Scotland is extending daily, and now includes all classes of labor on the North British, the Caledonian, and the Glasgow and South-Western railways…

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The Railway Dismissals in Sydney. Sydney

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 4

A largely attended meeting of railway employees and others was held in the Protestant Hall to-night, to protest against the action of the Railway…

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The Railway Strike in Scotland. London, January 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 18

The railway employes at Motherwell, on the Caledonian railway, who went on strike, and were evicted by the police, have been behaving in a very riotous manner. They were charged…

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The Railway Strike at Hull. London, January 1

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 18

The strike of the railway employes at Hull has collapsed, many of the men having returned to work…

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The Railway Strike in Scotland. Fresh Outrages by the Strikers. Serious Rioting Near Glasgow, London, January 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 21

Fresh outrages have been committed by the railway employes who are on strike in Scotland. At Coatbridge, a township nine and a half miles east of Glasgow, through which both the…

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Railway Associations and Trades Unionism

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 January 1891 · page 2

The ta[?]it percussion by the railway authorities in this colony for the men to form a railway association on the trades union principle, has resulted as was expected. Not satisfied…

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Railway Accident Near Drouin. a Goods Train Derailed. Great Damage to Rolling Stock

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 25

The goods train which left Warragul at 10.30 on Saturday night met with a disastrous accident midway between Drouin and Longwarry. The train, which is known as the…

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Siberia and the Trans-siberian Railway. (From the Odessa. Correspondent Op the Daily News.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 9

The Siberian continent, with its 6,000,000 of inhabitants, may, for the purpose of a rough sketch of its geographical features, be described as consisting of (1) the frontier…

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Collision on an Elevated Railway. London, January 12

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 18

A collision occurred to-day between two engines on an elevated railway in New York one of them being thrown off the line on to the street. No one is reported to have been…

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The Railway Strike in Scotland. Continued Outrages by the Strikers. London January 15

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 January 1891 · page 18

The violence of the men on strike on the Scottish railways is on the increase. Cases in which the points have been tampered with are being continually reported, while attacks upon…

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The Corowa Railway. Culcairn

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 January 1891 · page 2

THINGS go on from day to day here much in the same busy groove, and the growing result from the constant hammering, pile-driving, and sawing, is that in a few weeks…

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Extraordinary Railway Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 January 1891 · page 15

An incident of an extraordinary and sensational nature took place at the Malvern railway station on the 22nd inst., and it seems only by a miracle that we have not to record…

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Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 3

The thirty-third half-yearly meeting of the shareholders In the above Company will be held at the offices at Deniliquin [?] on Tuesday next [?] February, at 11 a.m when the ruary following report from the Directors will be…

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Railway Fares for Municipal Delegates

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 2

THE storm in a teacup which arose at the last meeting of the members of the Municipal Association in Sydney, is one of those pettifogging weaknesses to which metropolitan…

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The Zonal System of Railway Management

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 2

WE have to hand information concerning the success of a radical reform of railway charges in Hungary; and to the Melbourne Age we are indebted for…

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Railway Staff System

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 2

Under the English "staff system" when one train is too closely following another the official in charge of the staff will give a ticket to the first engineer, which cannot be…

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The Railway Strike in Scotland London, January 31

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 February 1891 · page 18

The railway strike in Scotland has ended. The Caledonian Railway Company has offered the same terms to its employes as those offered by the North British Company, and these…

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The Railway Employes Remain Neutral. London, February 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 February 1891 · page 18

The railway employes at Cardiff, who were asked by the coal laborers on strike to boycott all goods in charge of the Shipping Federation, have decided to remain neutral in the present…

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The Railway Institute

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1891 · page 26

A correspondent sends the following particulars regarding the Railway Institute:— The rules were framed by a committee of the men and approved of by the…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 February 1891 · page 27

A dreadful railway accident occurred on the 12th inst., about a quarter past 9 o’clock, at a point opposite the Hurlingham racecourse. There is no crossing at this place, but as a…

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