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Murray · Railways, roads & transport
227 stories in Murray's papers · page 8 of 12
An extraordinary railway accident has occurred in the State of Missonri. A train was struck by a cyclone and overturned, two persons being killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →About five o'clock this morning a railway collision occurred between. Hamilton and Waratah resulting in the death of one man and serious injury to three others…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The relieving station master at present on duty at the Mentone railway station, arriving on the premises shortly alter 6 o'clock on Thursday morning, found the door of the…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →There is again a big decrease in the railway traffic returns. For the week just closed there is a deficiency of £5177 compared with the corresponding week of the previous year, the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →A railway accident has occurred at Batley, a town near Leeds in Yorkshire. Owing to the points being defective a train was derailed. Fourteen of the passengers were…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →[?] occurred this morning near Waratah [?]the goods train and an empty cattle train, [?] deal of damage was done and a fireman [?] Robertson was killed. The driver Cousins…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is reported that a number of Chinese have attacked and pillaged a station on the Usuri section of the Siberian railway This is the section which follows the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A serious railway collision occurred at the Waratah railway station on 20th inst., when A. Robertson, a fireman, Cousins, an engine-driver, and a guard named R. Maher were…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →[?] under of Messrs Davis and Fright, of Tatura, accepted to-day in Sydney for the erection of [?] bridge over the Edwark River at Deniliquin [?] the amount being £3382…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Wagga paper says:—“During the past week good progress has been made by the contractors upon the work of the Wagga bridge. The lower stream cylinder of the centre river…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →The Roads Department has decided to call for fresh tenders for the bridge over the Yanko Creek at Wilson. Mr. Hayes called on the Minister on Saturday last, who promised to look…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →THE first serious accident at the Yankee crossing since its opening, some three or four years ago, occurred on Friday afternoon last, and resulted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public meeting was held at the Council Chambers on Monday evening, to consider the question of the route surveyed for the road from the new bridge at Hawksview to Albury. The…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →When Alexandre Dumas, the elder, went to Paris, a poor boy, to seek his fortune, he had a distinct ambition to become an author. He had nothing to help him to success in…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A telegram from Kerang to the Age runs as follows :—The existing railway arrangement for conveying live stock to market came in for strong condemnation here on Monday. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →By the end of this year all the railway contracts in progress in the colony will be completed, and there will not then be a man employed in New South Wales on railway…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →A serious railway accident has occurred at Chatham, in Kent, A hop-pickers’ train came into collision with a goods waggoo, with the result that…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →An international congress of railway servants has been held in Paris, A resolution was carried in favour of 48 hours as a minimum week’s work with 58 hours as the maximum…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →A daring train robbery has been committed on the Baltimore and Potomac United States. party of robbers got into a train,…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →One of the most urgent questions to which the Minister of Railways has given his attention is the treatment of those lines which are worked at a loss, as disclosed in the list of 26…
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