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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

641 stories in Murray's papers · page 29 of 33

Rear of a Train Derailed

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 2 November 1904 · page 2

The horse box attached to the rear of a train left the rails near Werris Creek this morning, and was drawn to the station in that position at the usual…

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The Tramway Hand

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 2 November 1904 · page 2

Last evening the Sydney Tramways Sand—which has just returned from the Ballarat compotitions—and the Albury Town Band gave an open-air…

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Road v. Rail

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 29

An incident connected with the competition between the railway and road carriage of merchandise caused considerable speculation on the Parramatta-road passing through Camperdown,…

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Wahgunyah-springhurst Train. Wahgunyah to Springhurst

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 1

Daily.--Dep. Wahgunyah 7.30 a.m., Rutherglen 8 a.m., arr. Springhurst, 8.30 a.m. Mondays and Tuesdays.-- Dep…

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Roads and Frontage Question. to the Editor of the Albury Banner

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 24

Sir,—I notice in the report of the last Yackandandah Shire meeting, Councillor Clutterbuck moved, and Councillor Connolly seconded, that the enclosed roads and…

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The Illicit Sale of Railway Tickets

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 39

The path of ticket scalpers is to be made yet more thorny. A new railway by-law has been gazetted, to establish the right of the Railway Commissioners to prosecute…

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INTERCOLONIAL. Concessions in Railway Fares at Show Time

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 28

A deputation, representing the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union of New South Wales, was introduced to the Railway Commissioners by Messrs. Davidson and Downes,…

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The Tocumwal Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 28

A deputation of residents of Cobram and Yarroweyah waited on the Victorian Premier to enter a protest against the construction of a railway line from Strathmerton to Tocunmwal,…

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Railway Extension

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 4 November 1904 · page 3

Concerning the opposition which has been shown to the construction [?] the line of railway from Strathmerton to Tocumwal by a section of the…

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Railway Tragedy

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 8 November 1904 · page 3

A telegram from Kyneton this morning reports that a line repairer named James Greenfield not with a shocking death late on Saturday night. Shortly…

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Reaping by Motor

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 8 November 1904 · page 4

The agricultural motor-horse has come to stay (says the Westminster Gazette). Very successful has been the working of a machine of this type on…

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Railway Tragedy

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 November 1904 · page 3

A shocking railway tragedy occurred to-day on the Forrest line near Geelong. Percy Pettigrew, telegraph line repairer, and a man named Johnstone…

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Chemical Motor Fire Engine

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 9 November 1904 · page 3

A chemical motor fire engine, constructed in London to the order of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, arrived to-day…

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Road v. Rail

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 29

A result of the Railway Commissioners increasing the rates of freight on merchandise carried on the lines has been the starting of a competition service by means of road traction…

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Wahgunyah-springhurst Train. Wahgunyah to Springhurst

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 4

Daily.--Dep. Wahgunyah 7.30 a.m., Rutherglen 3 a.m. arr. Springhurst, 8.30 a.m. Mondays and Tuesdays--Dep…

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A German Baron Who Is a Tramp

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 38

Baron Bennigsen, a German nobleman, was released from prison in Berlin a short time ago, after serving a term of six weeks' imprisonment for using a false name. The…

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Strathmerton Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 3

Considerable discussion is likely to take place on clause 3 of the Strathmorton-Tocumwal Rallway Bill, just been circulated The main provisions…

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Wool Traffic Oh the Railways. Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 2

Up to the present the wool traffic on the railways this seasons, is about 100,000 bales in excess of the corresponding period last year…

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Mr. R. Edols' Motor Car

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 2

On Wednesday morning Mr. Edols, Mr. Morphett (of Messrs. W. L. Taylor and Co.) and the chaffeur, drove across the Murray bridge and up Sanger-street…

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Tocumwal Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 November 1904 · page 2

Although the New South Wales Government has not yet notified its intention to curry out the [?]rsement arrived at by the Railway Ministers of New…

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