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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1904

641 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 33

Japan Building a Railway LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 2

General Yaman and 5000 troops are constructing the railway from [?] towards the port of Wija, at the mouth of the Yale River…

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Tram Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 17 March 1904 · page 3

A serious accident happened to an aged man named Benjamin Stevens, in Richmond to-day. Stevens, who is [?] of ago, was crossing…

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Road V. Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 29

Carriers on the Gundugai Adelong road claim they can compete with the railway, and are intent upon making the competition very brisk. Up to the present they…

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Road-proposed to Be Resumed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 38

All objections most be lodged within one month from 12th March to the Minister for Lands:— District of Narandera,…

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A Road-making Machine for Towong Shire

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 13

The Towong Shire Council recently decided to procure a road machine, and the implement was delivered at Tallangatta recently. It is known as the Steel…

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Application for the Closing and Purchase of Road

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 38

Application having been made under the Public Roads Act of 1902, for the closing and purchase of the following road, it is intended to close such road unless valid objections are found…

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Tram Fatality

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 18 March 1904 · page 3

An inquest was held by the City Coroner to-day touching the death of Benjamin Tems or Stevens, and elderly man who was knocked down by a…

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Annual Railway Picnic

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 3

Complain arrangements have been made for the annual picnic of the Victorian Railways Mutual Benefit Society to Ballarat, to-morrow. Special…

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A Giganlic Railway Scheme. London, Sunday. United States and South

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 21 March 1904 · page 3

President Roosevelt's Pan-American Railway Commissioner, after having paid a visit to all the South American Rebublics, has made a favourable…

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Out Down by a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

A line repairer named M'Cluskey met his death at Camboola near Molong to-day. He was run down by a train and the body was literally…

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A Road Into Thibet

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 2

The [?]danese tribe have authorised the Government of India to construct a road through Chutan in the Chumbl Valley, on the Indian-Thibel…

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Railway Blockaded by Snow

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 23 March 1904 · page 2

The Manchurian railway has been blocked by immense snowdrifts a[?] several bridges have collapsed…

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Road Work

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 2

Te[?]ers were opened by Mr. C. F. Napier-North, Road Superintendent, on Friday last for contract No. 22 (200 chaine clearing, Mulwala to Momalong,…

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Altered Train Service

The Independent · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 2

An advertisement appears elsewhere in this issue notifying an important change in the running of the trams from Echuca to Deniliquin…

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Selling Railway Tickets.s

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 3

Edward Shaw, an assistant registry office keeper, of Lonsdale-street, was charged in the City Court to-day on a charge of that, on the 29th of…

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Opening of an Electric Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 3

The Liverpool and Southport electric railway has been opened for traffic…

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Whilst Jumping Off a Tramcar

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 2

‘Looker-on’ describes a very curious accident which happened in Birmingham the other day, on the cable cat route. A certain male passenger emulating woman…

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New Railway Station at Mildura

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 28 March 1904 · page 3

The Premier, the Hon. Thomas Bent, has given authority for the construction of a new railway station at Mildura, at an estimated cost of £1000…

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The Late Railway Strike. Committee of Reinstatement

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 2

Mr. Tait, the Chief Commissioner of Railway, has been instructed to appoint a committee of the leading officers the Railway department, to…

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A Train to Travel 300 Miles an Hour

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 30 March 1904 · page 1

Dr. Albertson, a distinguished electrical engineer of the Royal University of Denmark, has finished an invention us the outcome of which…

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