The Wagga Bridge
The new bridge over the Murrumbidgee was opened on Monday by the Minister of Works, who, with the municipal party, was escorted to the scene by the local volunteer…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1895
220 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 11
Railway Accident in Encland. the Scotch Express Derailed. London November 10
A serious accident, resulting in loss of life, has occurred at St. Neots, in Huntingdonshire. While running from London to…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Sensational Road Accident
A most sensational accident happened on the Toongabbie-road on Wednesday, and although it has—almost marvellously—had as yet no fatal termination so far as human life is…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Moulamein to Barham Road
Although the New South Wales Government has already accepted tenders for the construction of bridges over the two Calf Creeks and the Whymoul,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Obstructions
Mr. Ball informs us that he his applied to the Minister of Lands re obstruction on the road at Thurgoona between portion 36 and SI. and that Mr. King has been directed to remove them. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →A Sticking-up Case on the Brown's Plains Road
THE Brown's Plains road, between Rutherglen and the mines, is of a dark night particularly well adapted to the perpetration of acts of pillage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Railway Engine Chased by a Tornado
“ I don’t believe that fright ever turned a person’s hair white off hand,” said Henry Wetherell, an engineer of the Jersey Central Railroad. “ If such a thing could…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Robbery on a Tram
George Seale was brought up at the Blayney polite court charged with robbing George King on the Cowra-to-Blayney train. After a deal of evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Accident on the Railway Line
A Telegram to the Evening News says :—" A number of valuable ponies, owned by Mr James Mitchell, Tabletop station, Albury, strayed on the railway line at Yambla and were run into by…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Road Between Coobool Island and Swan Hill
Mr Chanter asked the Secretary for Lands.— (1.) Was an application made to this department by resident selectors as far back as the year 1888 for the opening of a road between Coobool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Train Dynamited
The Cuban Insurgents blew up a train by means of an infernal machine. All the Spanish officials were killed and many other passengers injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Extension in Burmah. an Important Decision. London, November 27
The British Government has come to an important decision with regard to railway construction in Burmah. It has been resolved to build a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Railway Commissioners
IT has been said that new brooms sweep clean, and if the inference to be drawn from such an aphorism be applied to the early stages of railway rule by railway commissioners,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Victorian Railways
The Victorian Railway Commissioners estimates that the revenue will [?] `short of that obtained last year by £80,000. Of that deficiency the sum of £50,000 will…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Berrigan Railway
Several applications have been received from farmers and wheat growers on the route of the Jerilderie to Berrigan railway for permission to erect sheds inside…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →A Russian Railway Romance
Railway travelling In Russia is so expensive that exalted personages are o[?]en driven to travel third class in very rough company. Occ[?]ally this leads to contr[?]mps of a…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →A Thieving Tramp
A few days ago a man called at Mr. W. Imbsr’s Inverness Hotel, Burrundulla, and acquainted Mrs. Imber with the fact, that he was an unfortunate, hungry, and…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →The Railway Revenue. a Serious Falling Off in Wool
Mr Eddy states that the railway revenue shows a very heavy decrease. From the 1st October there has been a fall of nearly £70,000 in the receipts compared with the same period of last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Correspondence. The Repairs at the Hay Bridge. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)
SIR,—I should like to know how much longer the Hay Bridge is to be in such a dangerous condition to the public, and to know how the men that are working at it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The First Railway Deputation. Reminiscences of a Victorian JOURNALIST.--No. 4
MR. Mott, Secretary to the North Eastern Railway League [?] that the hon. the Chief Secretary was daily in the habit of receiving…
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