The Siberian Railway. 70,000 Labourers Employed. London, September 14
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 September 1896 · page 26
The Russian Government is pushing on with the construction of the Siberian railway as speedily as possible. It is stated that there ace now 70,000 men employed on…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Opening of a Railway
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 23 September 1896 · page 2
The Jerilderie to Berrigan railway will be opened on the 1st of October…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opening of the Railway
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 25 September 1896 · page 3
The committee appointed to arrange matters in connection with the opening of the railway met at the Berrigan Hotel on Wednesday evening last, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Berrigan Railway
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 September 1896 · page 29
At last the iron horse is in our midst, and interested groups may be seen every day at the station, writes the Berrigan Advocate. Children who never saw a train keep at a…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Nine Roads to Suicide
The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 September 1896 · page 2
Somebody gives these useful hints: 1. Wear narrow thin shoes. 2. Wear a ‘snug’ corset. 3. Sit up in hot, unventilated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. The Condobolin-Broken Hill Railway. (To the Editor of the Riverine Grazier.)
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 September 1896 · page 2
SIR.—Mossgiel people, Grazier subscribers, have recently publicly commented upon the silence of the Grazier in regard to the proposed railway line Condobolin to Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine Roads to Suicide
The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 7 October 1896 · page 6
Somebody gives these useful hints: 1. Wear narrow thin shoes. 2. Wear a 'snug' corset. 3. Bit up in hot, unventilated moms hill[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Opening Demonstration
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 9 October 1896 · page 2
FOR over a dozen years an agitation to have railway communication with the large centres of trade had been steadily growing in extent and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Traffic on the Railways
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 October 1896 · page 28
From some information which we have gathered from various sources it would seem that the policy recently adopted by the Railway Commissioners of this colony…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Cabby and the "Bilkers." Plain Tales of the Road
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 October 1896 · page 4
There are indications (says the London Daily Chronicle) that the path of the man who would "bilk" a cabman of his fare is likely to be beset, with a few additional…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Berrigan to Finley Railway
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 16 October 1896 · page 2
In the Assembly on Tuesday Mr Young moved—“That it is expedient that a line of a railway from Berrigan to Finley, as referred by the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Opening Demonstration. the Arrangements. Minister for Works and Minister for Lands to Be Present
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 16 October 1896 · page 2
The committee met at the Momalong Hotel last Monday to make final arrangements in connection with the opening demonstration. A letter was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A New Railway. Big Compensation Claim. London, October 7
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 October 1896 · page 27
The new railway projected between London and Manchester requires an area of 14 acres in Marylebone for the purpose of a terminus station. Viscount Portman, who…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Railway Grain Freights
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 October 1896 · page 29
At a meeting of the Executive Council the new rate-book for goods carriage over the railways was approved of. The new book contains very few changes, and…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Opening of the Berrigan Railway. Berrigan
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 October 1896 · page 3
AS EXPECTED the proceedings in connection with the official opening of the railway from Jerilderie to Berrigan were of a most brilliant character. The town…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →My Pretty Companion. a Railway Night Adventure
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 21 October 1896 · page 2
"The train was rushing along at full speed, and there was truly something fantastic, lugubrious even, in the hollow rumbling in the darkness of this internally illuminated mass, of this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How the Railway to Berrigan. [By an Old Hand.]
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 23 October 1896 · page 1
The history of the movement to secure a railway would fill a fair need volume if told in detail, but here only the out-standing facts ere recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Opening of the Jerilderie to Berrigan Line The First Pioneer, Light Railway in the Colony. Opened by the Minister for Works. Enthusiastic Reception of the Ministerial Party
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 23 October 1896 · page 2
Saturday morning broke with u few delusive rain-drops, and then a wind blew from the N. W., which reached its height at one o’clock, driving clouds of dust through the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Visit of the Railway Commissioners
The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 23 October 1896 · page 3
Messrs Eddy and Fehon, Railway Commissioners, accompanied by a host of officers of the Department, arrived here by special train on Wednesday last on a visit of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Jerilderie-berrigan Railway
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 October 1896 · page 25
The ceremony of formaily declaring open for trAffic the extension of the railway from Jerilderie to Barrigan, the pioneer line of light railways in the colony, was performed by…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →