One for the Tramp
A tramp rapped at the door the other day, and asked the woman if she could spare him a piece of bread. "No, I can't," replied the woman:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murray · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1896
214 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 11
Cycling. the Sixteen Mile Road Race
The first road race of the mourners of the Hay branch of the Wheelmen's League for the trophies presented hy Messrs. J. J. Kelly and Geo. Sadler was run off on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Indian Railways. Project of Extension. London, November 19
The Indian Government has decided to spend the sum of 91,000,000 rupees (nearly £6,000,000) on railway extension during the next three years. The chief object the…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →League of Wheelmen—hay Branch. Bicycle Road Race
THE Hay Branch of the New South Wales Wheelmen initiated their inauguration by holding a Road Race. The distance was 16 miles, and the course marked out was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Swan Hill Bridge
The official opening of the new Swan Hill bridge will take place to-day, and it will in all probability be a red letter day in the annals of the border town…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Railway Exhibit
The Railway Commissioners sent a very complete exhibit illustrative of the New South Wales railways to the great exhibition at Chicago in 1893, and by a…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →To Utilise Railway Embankments
There is an excellent suggestion in Mr. Pettigrew's book that I venture to revive. Within the past five or ten year railway station gardening has become a pretty and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Opening of the Swan Hill Bridge
On Wednesday last the town of Swan Hill was en fete, the occasion being the official opening of the new bridge over the River Murray. For some months a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Utilise Railway Embankments
There is an excellent suggestion in Mr. Pettigrew's book that I venture to revive. Within the past five or ten years railway station gardening has become a pretty and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death in a Train
On the arrival of the express train from Melbourne to Adelaide via North Geelong on Thursday afternoon it was discovered that a man named John…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Victorian Railway Rates
A Beechworth telegram says:—"The new railway rates are complained of here as unfair. Zwarr Brothers, of Beechworth tannery, state that the abolition of…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Train Accident
A cattle train, while proceeding along the Esk (Queensland) railway on 17th inst., ran off the line at a curve on a steep incline. The cattle trucks shot over on…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Railway Accident
A train proceeding over Trestle bridge, Birmingham, State of Alabama, America, was precipitated into a gorge below, 177 persons being killed and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Realism in Texas. an Exhibition Railway Accident
The Texans usually come to the front of they have the least chance given them. Perhaps it is in their amusements and exciting entertainments that…
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