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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1901

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Differential Railway Rates

The Independent · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 4

The New South Wales railway authorities have noticed the comments in the Melbourne papers in regard to the action said to have been taken by them in…

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Shocking Railway Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 25

On the railway between Wait-a-while and Berrigan on Saturday a man named Ronald M'Millan met with fatal injuries. With six other railway employes he was…

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Killed on the Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 29

A portion of a railway uniform waistcoat, torn and blood-stanined, was brought to the police at Narrabri on Saturday by a railway fettler, who had found it on the river bridge…

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Wyalong Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 29

People at Temora are delighted at the Temora-Wyalong Railway Bill having passed the Lower House, and hope for similar success in the Council. Several old residents say that…

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Railway Rates

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 8 November 1901 · page 3

It might be of interest to our readers for us to re-produce the following, which appeared in a morning contemporary with reference to the reductions in railway…

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Savernake. Lockhart to Savernake Railway, Via Urana and Clear Hills. Visit of Railway Inspector Usher and Four Railway Commissioners Saturday, Nov. 9

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 November 1901 · page 3

THE last few days have been quite busy ones with a few members of the local branch of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association and Settlers' Association and Railway League…

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One Way to Train Daughters

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 11

A self-complacent German matron describes in a practical journal for housewives her idea of what to do with our daughters. This energetic mother rouses her daughter…

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Have a Press Gang. Novel Procedure for Getting Needed Harvest Hands in Nobraska. Farmers Seize Tramps from the' Freight Trains and Compel Them

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 36

Owing to the large crops the farmers in Nebraska and Kansas have to use all sorts of ingenious schemes to get harvest hands. Enterprise in this…

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Grenfell Railway League

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 28

The Grenfell Railway League have for warded a circular to the members of the Legislative Council giving "reasons why this line should not be constructed without further…

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Break of Railway Gauge at Albury. the Twin Rail System

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 15

The Minister for Works on Friday made an inspection of an invention designed to overcome the break of gauge difficulty at Albury whereby it will be possible to run through in…

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Preferential Railway Rates. the Wool Traffic. Indignation at Wodonga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 15

Until last year the bulk of the wool front the Riverina district was carted to and loaded at Wodonga Railway Station, owing to there being a charge of 3s. 6d. per ton for the extra…

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The Siberian Railway. a Great Section Completed. London, November 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 27

The great trans-Siberian railway, which w to connect St. Petersburg with Vladivostock, is now complete aud in working order as far as Sretensk, close to the…

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The Railway Commission Ers at Clear Hills

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 15 November 1901 · page 3

On Saturday Host oar railway passed through another important stage, when we had a visit from Messers Oliver, Kircaldie and Fashion (Railway Commissioner) and…

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Local Railway Changes

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 21 November 1901 · page 2

Mr. Gazard, the newly-appointed stationmaster, arrived in Hay on Monday evening. This gentleman has been a long time in the service,…

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Killed by a Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 November 1901 · page 28

The Rev. Frederick Arthur Booth, M A. Incumbent of St. Paul's Church of England af Koroit, was found dead on Saturday morning near the gatehouse on the railway line to Warr…

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Express Train Horror. Frightful Scenes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 22 November 1901 · page 9

Horrible particulars are reported in connection with a railway disaster on the Roumaniun State railway on the night of September 20. The disaster occurred at…

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Railway Matters

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 22 November 1901 · page 2

SOME years ago the project of a railway from Coonong Siding, through Urana, to Corowa, received considerable support it public opinion. Like a number of other…

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Railway to Tocumwal. TOCUMWAL

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 November 1901 · page 3

At a meeting of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association on Saturday, the matter of railway communication between this district and Sydney and Melbourne was discussed. Mr…

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Sailors Robbed on Ratcliff Railway

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 23 November 1901 · page 2

The term ‘knocker out’ does not refer to a human, It is a slang term for a cooling draught, a few drops of which adroitly sprinkled in a person’s drink will…

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Singular Railway Accident

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Monday 25 November 1901 · page 1

At Quirindi on Wednesday, while the goods train from the north was ascending Black Hill, under charge of Driver…

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