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Murray · Railways, roads & transport
197 stories in Murray's papers · page 3 of 10
The steamer Federal has been driven further ashore at Newcastle. The latest news from the Hunter River districts is of the most appalling nature…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A commercial traveller asks in a Leeds paper, "Which is the safest and most comfortable position in the train?" and replies, "In an express, towards…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The railway revenue is decreasing every week, end Mr. Eldy and Mr. Oliver (who were enjoying a holiday in Tasmania) have cut short their leave, because they find that…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →THE insecure state of the Deniliquin bridge seems to have dropped out of sight since a promise was made by the Government to put £6000 on the the estimates for the construction of a new one. In passing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In connection with the new railway lines sanctioned by Parliament there will be no more of those snug little sums drawn from the Treasury to be acquired by the landowners as…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →CONSIDERING all the [?], the case [?] (Mayor)v. Hawkins, which was tired at the Police [?] Saturday last, was a peculiar one for various reasons. A [?] of the evidence given…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MESSRS. BROWN, MARSHALL, and Co., Saltley, have, the Brimingham Daily Post says, just built a new train for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, to run between…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Referring to the Victorian railways, the Melbourne Age says:—Under the 1884 regulations the deadhead list was a most formidably one, as will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Customs authorities having recently closed the Wahgunyah bridge against traffic during certain hours of the night, the people at Corowa expressed great indignation thereat…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →A Molong correspondent of the Herald says:—“ Mr. Matthews, of Peak Hill, left here five weeks ago with two waggons to bring loading from Sydney. I was generally thought…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The death is announced, at the age of 64, of Sir George Finlay, who since 1874 has been general manager of the London and North-Western Railway Company…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A reply by the Rrilway Commissioners to Mr. R[?]s question with respect to lavatory accommodation on second-class railway carriages was laid upon the table of the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →THE subject of the absurd practice of erecting gates on the confines of the colony of Victoria for the prevention of smuggling has attracted more than a little attention…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR--As one of the oldest inhabitants or Corowa, who had occasion to cross the Murray at Wahgunyah before the bridge was started and ever since it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Sydney correspondent of a contemporary writes :—“I hear the pocket-picking gentry have struck a new line. They are emulating their Yankee confreres, who carry on their…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Some eight or ten years ago a line of railway from Goulburn to Crookwell, 30 miles distant, was made part of the policy of the then Government (the Parkes-Robertson…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Profound gloom has been cast over Wagga and district by the tragic death of Mr. Harry Barkeley Fitzhardinge, the well-known solicitor. No one witnessed the accident, and it i[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A fatal railway accident happened on the railway line near Goulburn on Saturday night. Two men named Michael Barry, a fettler, and Magill, son of the sub-contractor for the repairs…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →To make an increased profit in the face of a falling revenue is a feat of which any Administration might be reasonably proud. This [?] the position achieved by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →On account of the necessity for racing revenue by all reasonable means, the Railway Commissioners have resolved to repeal many of the reductions of rates which were made by…
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