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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1892

166 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 9

Attempt to Rob the Sydney Mail Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 April 1892 · page 3
Also in The Berrigan Advocate

AN attempt to rob the intercolonial, mails was frustrated at the Albury railway station on Sunday. On account of the over-land express only running as far as Albury on…

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Railway Accident on the Zigzag

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1892 · page 4

The Great Zigzag was the scene of a railway accident on 13th inst. A cattle train from Bathurst to Penrith arrived at the bottom points shortly after noon and commenced the…

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A Railway Guard’s Invention

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1892 · page 12

In British railway circles an invention by a guard on the London end Southwestern railway is receiving much attention. In reports of railway accidents by…

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Latest Telegrams. Shocking Disaster at a Railway Station. Holiday Makers at Hea. H. Station. Height Persons Crushed to Death. London, April 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 April 1892 · page 24

A shocking disaster occurred yesterday at the Hampstead Heath railway station, near Landon. During the day the place was thronged by an enormous crowd of holiday…

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Frightful Railway Smash. Eight Passengers of the Bourke Mail Train Killed. Fourteen Men and Women Seriously Injured. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 24

Another shocking addition to the long list terrible railway disasters which have occured in New South Wales had to be recorded this morning, when a portion of the mail train…

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Terrible Railway Accident. Nine Persons Killed. Many Injured. SYDNEY, Wednesday Morning

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 2

A terrible railway accident has occurred on the Western Line, near Sodwalls. Nine persons were killed and manny injured. Wednesday afternoon…

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Railway Accidents in New South Wales. Sells' Circus Wrecked

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 2

A SERIOUS railway accident, attended by fatal results, occurred early on Tuesday morning near Tenterfield. Sella Brothers Circus, having performed at that town on…

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Sells Circus on Tour. Railway Collision.one Man Killed. Glen Innes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 24

A fatal railway accident occurred near here this morning. Sells’s Circus performed at Tenterfield last night. They were encaged to open at Armidale to-night, and left…

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Serious Railway Catastrophe

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 29 April 1892 · page 2

A railway catastrophe of the most serious character which has yet occurred in Australia took place on the New South Wales Western line, near…

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Roads and Bridges. Some Unpleasant Facts

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 4

A telegram to us last week gave brief information on this subject and we now furnish the full details from the Sydney Telegraph. Among the matters under the consideration of…

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Terrible Railway Accident on the Western Line. Sydney

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 2

A terrible railway accident occurred on the Western line, near Sodwall's, on Wednesday morning. Nine persons are reported as killed and…

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The Railway Policy

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 2

LOOKING back over the past six or seven years one cannot help smiling at the big contemplations and the diminutive results from the successive Governments as regards the railway…

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Terrible Railway Accident. Sydney. Wednesday, April 27

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 2

A terrible railway accident has occurred on the Western line, near Sodwalls. Nine passengers were reported killed, and 12 injured. The train left the rails, causing a complete smash. Particulars are…

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The New South Wales Railway Commissioners

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 30 April 1892 · page 1

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Executive Council a Royal commission was appointed to inquire into the charges made by Mr. Schev M.L.A., against the Railway Commissioner, Mr. E. M. G. Eddy, and his…

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COROWA - Wahgunyah Bridge. To the Editor

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 May 1892 · page 3

SIR,--I noticed that in your report on the above in last Friday's issue it was stated that Mr. Morkham; after a consultation with me came to the…

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On the Forth Bridge in a Hurricane

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 May 1892 · page 1

The lata gale was one of the most violent that line swept over the British Isles for many years. It recalled to many minds the extraordinary hurricane which wrecked the Tay Bridge in December, 1878…

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The Victorian Railway Policy

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 May 1892 · page 3

THE Minister of Railways has made public his scheme for reducing the expenditure of the railways by £100,000 per annum, and increasing the revenue…

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The Hon. Geo. Davis, M.l.c., at Wodonga. Suspension of the Railway Commissioners. the Minister for Defence on the Government Liberal Policy

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 May 1892 · page 25

On Friday evening last the Hon. Geo. Davis, the representative of the Gippsland Province in the Upper House, addressed a meeting of electors in the Shire Hall at…

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The Jerilderie, Deniliquin and Moama Railway

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 May 1892 · page 1

Just before the close of last session, the Government submitted to the Home a resolution to empower them to advance this matter another stage, by sending the matter on to the Public Works…

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