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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1903

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Railway Collision. Twenty-one Casualties. London, July 2

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 27

A serious railway accident has occurred in Belgium. A train conveying a number of Antwerp merchants to the corn market at Brussels came into collision with another…

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Sydney Tramcar Sensation. a Conductor Fired At

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 21

A sensational shooting incident occurred about noon on Wednesday in an electric tram. While a tram was on its way from Zetland to the city a male passenger was…

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The Cordon Bennett Cup. International Motor Race. London, July 3

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 27

The international automobile race for the gold cap, valued at £500, given by Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of The New York Herald, took place yesterday…

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A Canadian Railway. Another Grand Trunk Line. London, July 4

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 26

The Canadian Government has decided to construct a railway from Moneton, in New Brunswick, to Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba. The line, which will be built under the…

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The Motor Massacre in France. "La Course De La Mort."

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 4

LONDON, May 29.—We scarcely know as yet the full tale of the victims of the Paris-Madrid motor race, which commenced at the French…

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Royal Motor Cars

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 July 1903 · page 4

The King has as magnificent a motor car as may be Imagined. In also it is really enormous. The King docs not drive himself, this being the work of Mr. Lelxer, who is…

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The Great Siberian Railway

The Riverine Grazier · Monday 13 July 1903 · page 1

The last rail of the great Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostock has been laid, and with the completion of this great highway…

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The First Motor Car

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 4

No man better deserves to live in the grateful memory of posterity than the inventor of a useful article. The nineteenth century was emphatically a century of invention. It…

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Fashions in Motor Masks

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 4

Those who have done much motoring realise the absolute necessity for some sort of protection against wind and dust. The idea of shielding the face when automobiling is an…

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Ministers at Mildura. Railway Work to Be Resumed

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 July 1903 · page 3

The Minister of Lands Mr. Taverner) and the Minister of Railways (Mr. Bent) yesterday made an inspection of the packing factories here…

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The Blayney Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 July 1903 · page 29

A good deal of complaint is being made as to the Murrumburrah-Blayney railway ; and it is shown by the commissioners that it entails a loss of £30,000 a…

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Serious Railway Mishap

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 July 1903 · page 34

A serious mishap occurred at the Molong railway station on Tuesday night. The goods train for Orange, when about 100 yards from the starting-point, crashed into…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 July 1903 · page 29

A railway accident occurred near Stonehenge, about four miles from Glen Innes, when a fettler named John Dowd was run down aDd killed. Dowd was driving a…

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Tumut. Wednesday, July 15. Railway Opening

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 July 1903 · page 17

On Thursday night last an enthusiastic public meeting was held in the Council Chambers to devise some means to fitly celebrate the opening of the…

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The Late Railway Fatality

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 July 1903 · page 2

At the Wagga Court-house an Friday, the District Coroner (Mr. T. H. Williamson) continued the hearing of the evidence relative to the inquest on the body…

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The Road to Success

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 July 1903 · page 2

Mr. G. F. Swift, the millionaire porkpacker of Chicago, whose death, was reported recently, was the author of a of interesting maxims on how-to…

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A Railway Deficit

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 21 July 1903 · page 2

The N.S.W. railways closed the year with a deficiency of £260,000, but as against this they were able to assist in the matter of starving stock and fodder…

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The Trams of the World

The Riverine Grazier · Wednesday 22 July 1903 · page 4

The first man, curiously enough, to introduce the trams into England, was a Mr. Train. That event occurred in the streets of Birkenhead,…

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The Wahgunyah Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 July 1903 · page 2

The following alterations in the time table will take effect on and after Monday next. 20th last:--Leave Wahgunyah for Springhurst 6.5 a.m. daily and 11…

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Railway Accident. a Train Derailed. Many Killed and Injured. London, July 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1903 · page 26

A disastrous railway accident has occurred in the north of England. An express train, going from Liverpool to Southport, was derailed at Waterloo, a station about five miles…

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