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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

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The Tocumwal Railway

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 26 August 1904 · page 2

Recently in the Victorian Legislative Council, the president read the notification from the Speaker of the Assembly that the invitation of the Council to the Premier to…

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Maintenance of Main Roads

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 August 1904 · page 3

Hidden away in the mass of apparently formal proclamations published in the "Government Gazette" is an announcement that the road…

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Boy Jumps From a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 August 1904 · page 3

Charles Louis Rogerson, a little lad, aged only seven years, jumped from a moving train at Kogarah on Saturday afternoon and sustained such…

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Border Railway Project

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 August 1904 · page 1

A meeting of the Strathmerton Tocumwal Railway League was held on Tuesday, when the following resolutions were carried :--"That in the…

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Exciting Scene On A Train. Express Passengers Alarmed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 September 1904 · page 34

An exciting incident occurred on the Melbourne express early on Tuesday morning between Yass and Goulburn, when a man entered one of the first class compartments…

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The Romance of a Railway Stoker

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 September 1904 · page 8

In their infancy railways possessed a ticket system which was at once primitive and cumbersome. Each passenger was supplied with a large green paper ticket, upon…

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Accident on the Grand Trunk Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 2 September 1904 · page 3

A terrible collision has occurred on the Grand Trunk railway at Richmond. Fifteen passengers were killed and 25 injured…

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Train Service Interrupted

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 3 September 1904 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at Mukden says that the train service between that town and Liaoyang was interrupted late on Thursday evening, and…

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Electric Railway Signals

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 3 September 1904 · page 2

The Great Western Railway Company have now completed arrangements for the equipment of a section of their main line at Didcot with electrically controlled signals…

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Railway Station Bombarded

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 5 September 1904 · page 2

Japanese shells have destroyed the railway station at Liaoyang. Another railway station, however, has been established to the north of…

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Railway Accident in America

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 6 September 1904 · page 2

A passenger train running at the the rate of 30 miles an hour dashed into a tram car yesterday at a street crossing in St. Louis, Missouri…

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Motor Costumes for Dogs

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 September 1904 · page 1

The pampered pet dogs of Paris are not now considered strictly fashionable unless they wear motor costumes when accompanying their owners out riding. Therefore,…

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Business and the Motor. a Millionaire's Office on Wheels

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 7 September 1904 · page 2

The man whose income is a dollar a minute naturally believes in the maxim that "time is money." Certainly Mr. Fiske, one of America's…

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Cablegrams. War! The Russian Retreat. Train Loads of Wounded. Halt at Mukden. Newspaper Plain Truths. An Issue Suppressed. Russian Retreat. No Official Despatches. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 September 1904 · page 2

It is apparent that no despatch has been received to-day from General Kuropatkin, and other nothing has been heard from General Kuroki either…

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Losses on the Railways

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 September 1904 · page 29

The Commissioners point out that losses have been incurred in connection with all the railways that have been constructed during the last few years. That, of course, was to be…

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Railway Collision. Fifteen Lives Lost. London, September

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 9 September 1904 · page 27

A collision, with disastrous results, has occurred on the Grand Trunk Railway at Richmond, in Canada. Fifteen persons were killed and 25 injured. Among those who…

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The Russian Wounded. 80 Railway Cars Daily. Fearful Shrapnel Wounds. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 September 1904 · page 2

The London "Daily Mail" says that 80 railway cars packed fall of wounded Russian soldiers have traversed the line to Mukden every day…

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In a Tramway

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 September 1904 · page 2

A short time ago I had [?] a neighbouring town, and [?] boarded a car to ta[?] Seated opposite me was [?]…

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The Wagga Road

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 September 1904 · page 4

The greatest here e'er I know Had never faced a Heer! Nor was he, with a shipwrecked crew, Cast on a herron shore. Art laundry work. Sea the exhibits at Melrose Laundry…

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The Railways

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 September 1904 · page 2

No department of the public service is more prompt in issuing the report of its work than the Railway Department; nor is there any department in…

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