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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1902

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A Woman's Three Thousand Mile Motor Ride

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 11

The motor craze grows apace, and, as no one needs reminding, a motor tour has been undertaken round the world. Scarcely less enterprising is the Countess Irma Scholletti…

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Opening of Germanton Railway. Germanton

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 21

The special train conveying his Excellency Sir Harry Rawson, Lady Rawson. Miss Rawson, Sir William Lyne, Mr. E. W. O'Sullivan, and Messrs. M'Laurin, T. H. Griffith, Bryner…

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Railway Contracts. London, September 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 26

British firms have latterly supplied 40 locomotive engines, of 100 tons each, and 200 miles of steel rails for the South African railways. Out of the sum of £1,000,000…

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A Railway to Tap Riverina

The Independent · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 2

The Victorian Railways Standing Committee, which lapsed the moment Parliament was dissolved, has registered its opinion concerning the…

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Starving Stock. Heavy Railway Traffic. Talk with Mr W. R. Brown. (Melbourne "Argus.")

The Independent · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 2

The energetic officer in charge of the live stock department of the railways enlightens one on the dire effects of the drought on the drought-stricken pastures…

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Shortage of Water at the Corowa Railway Station

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 2

Mr. F. C. Piggin,secretary of the Progress Committee, has received a reply to letter sent to the Railway Commissioners relative to a recent shortage of water at…

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The Germanton Show. Official Opening of the Railway. Germanton

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 September 1902 · page 2

At the opening of the show yesterday the weather was fine, but to- day it was showery. There was a good attendance, The Governor…

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The Cermanton Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 September 1902 · page 3

With reference in the above railway, opened for traffic last Thursday, the following information will prove interesting:--…

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Riverina Railways

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

THE railway from Culcai[?] between Wagga and Albury, to Germanton, which has just been opened by the Governor, is the subject of al leading article…

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A New Railway

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

The surrey of the proposed railway to connect Boo[?]ala with Bairnadale, Victoria, is nearly completed…

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Another Tram Accident

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 September 1902 · page 2

Petty officer William Robertson, of H.M.S. Royal Arthur, was knocked down by a tram in George-street night and killed…

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Fast Train Train Hay to Sydney

Riverina Times, Hay Standard and Journal of Water Conservation · Thursday 25 September 1902 · page 2

The Mayor is in receipt of the following letter from Mr F A. Byrne, M.P., re fast train from Hay to Sydney:—…

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The Road Vote

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 29

Mr. Donaldson, M.L.A., is anxious, for the Bake of the hopes and fears of those concerned in the amount of the annual road vote, to know if the item is to be…

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Attempt Oh the Czar's Life. a Train Wrecked. London, September 23

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 21

A deliberate attempt has been made on the life of the Czar Nicholas. His Majesty, who has been visiting Kursk, in Southern Russia, started on Friday last on his return to the…

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A Motor Car Service

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 29

A Gundagai pastoralist has, the Independent says, recently procured a motor car for his use. At Braidwood a syndicate, with a capital of £3000, has been formed…

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The Bagdad Railway. Russian Press Perturbed. London, September 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 21

The St. Petersburg journal, the Novoe Vremya, is much perturbed by an announcement that the construction of the German railway from the Mediterranean to the…

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Culcairn-germanton Railway. Opened by the Governor

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 34

On Thursday last, 18th inst, the new line of railway from Culcairn to Germanton was officially opened by His Excellency Sir Hurry Rawson. After the line had been…

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Railway Accident. Passengers Injured. London, September 20

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 27

A serious railway accident happened yesterday. The express from Penzance. Cornwall, after slowing down to a rate of 20 miles an hoar when approaching; Paddington station…

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Railway Extension

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 29

Messrs. Deane and Rennick, engineers-in-chief, visited Tocumwal last week, in company with Mr. De Burgh, chief engineer of the roads and bridges branch of the New…

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The Barellan Railway. Sydney

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 September 1902 · page 17

The Temora-Barellan Railway Bill has unanimously passed the second reading, and the third reading takes place to-day (Thursday). Hon Mr Suttor, the Vice-President, warmly[?]…

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