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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1896

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Victorian Railway Improvements

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 August 1896 · page 28

Mr. Mathieson, the Victorian general manager, has to be thanked for the suggested work in connection with the railways. The new "boss" is evidently a…

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Land for Berrigan Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 August 1896 · page 10

The Jerilderie Herald says :—When the construction of the railway between here and Berrigan was contemplated it was understood by the department that they…

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The Siberian Railway. Open to Tomsk. London, August 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 August 1896 · page 26

The work of constrncting the Trans-Siberian railway is proceeding rapidly. The line, which last year was completed as far as Omsk, 1624 miles from Moscow…

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The Railway Report

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 August 1896 · page 27

The annual report of the New South Wales Railway Commissioners for the year ending June 30 last has been laid upon the table of the Assembly. It…

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On the Roads

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 19 August 1896 · page 5

The road winds onward long and white, It curves in many coila, and crooks A beckoning finger down the height; It calls me with the voice of brooks…

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The Union Bridge

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 August 1896 · page 29

The question of renewing the Union Bridge over the Murray River at Albury has been the subject of a conference between Mr. Taverner, Victorian Minister…

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Berrigan to Finley Railway. Thursday, Aug. 13th

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 21 August 1896 · page 2

At the meeting of the Public Works Committee to-day, the debate, was resumed upon the motion by Mr Black, urging that it was expedient to carry out the construction of…

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A Railway Anomaly

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 August 1896 · page 29

The working of the railways ia Victoria is one of the problems which, in regard of ways and means, our neighbors have been making very persistent if not particularly…

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New Bridge

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1896 · page 29

The bridge over the Belubula River, in Carcoar, which was formerly of the old truss type, has lately undergone extensive alterations under the Public Works…

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Sawdust for Roads

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1896 · page 29

Sawdust may yet supersede metal and gravel in road-making. An intelligent N.S.W. man, noticing that the timber waggons never bogged near the mills,…

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Abolition of Useless Roads

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 28 August 1896 · page 3

FOR some time past property holders have been striving to have abolished certain lands or back streets which the early surveyors of Corowa Proper…

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New Bridge

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 2 September 1896 · page 4

The bridge over the Belubula River in Carcoar, which was formerly of the old truss type, has lately undergone extensive alterations under the Public…

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The Swan Hill Bridge

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 September 1896 · page 2

THE work of erecting the bridge over he Murray at Swan Hill is rapidly approaching completion, and on Saturday last the first steamer passed under…

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"Roads of Access"

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 September 1896 · page 2

A PETITION, which, judging from the number of signatures attached to it must have been signed by nearly every adult male resident in Hay, has been…

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Attempt to Wreck a Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 September 1896 · page 29

A dastardly attempt to wreck a train is reported from Gunnedah. It appears that the down mixed train, when, near Breeza station on Saturday morning…

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Open Column. a Bicycle Road Race. (To the Editor of the Pastoral Times.)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 5 September 1896 · page 3

Sis,—Kindly allow me space in your valuable paper to notify the residents of Deniliquin of the disgraceful conduct of certain members of the Cycling Club of this town, in instituting a road…

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Berrigan Railway the Last Rail Laid

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 11 September 1896 · page 3

At last the iron-horse is in our midet, and interested groups may be seen every day at the station. Children who never saw a train keep at a…

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The Storyteller. the Man in the Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1896 · page 6

The Northern express was about to leave the Tederoft Junction when two girls rushed into the station. They had just time to hurry into the first carriage at…

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The Opening of the Berrigan Railway. a Meeting of Residents

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 18 September 1896 · page 3

A public meeting of residents of the town and district was held at the Federal Hotel on Saturday evening. There were present:— Messrs E. J. Gorman, Whitty, Jones,…

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Railway Collision in Germany. No One Injured. London, September 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1896 · page 26

A railway accident occurred in Germany yesterday which might have been attended by most disastrous consequences. At Lobau, in Saxony, the Dresden express…

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