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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1905

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Regulation of Motors

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 19

Owing to the increase of motor traffic in this district of late years the question of regulating the speed of such vehicles with in the municipality has suggested itself to…

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Horses and Motor Cars

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 13

Horsemen in the old countries are clamouring with much indignation against the unrestricted headlong fashion in which motor cars tear along the roads. It is bad…

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Russia's Proposed Railways

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 2

The Russian authorities propose to construct a new railway in Siberia which will connect the Trans-Baikal, line with the usuri River, which is in…

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Killed on the Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 2

A drover named J. Maloney, who had brought cattle from Moree to Homebush, was killed by train last night. Maloney was crossing the…

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The Railway Exhibition

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 6 October 1905 · page 3

A very interesting exhibition was that which was inaugurated in commencement of the railway construction in New South…

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Shocking Train Fatality. Buggy Run Down at a Crossing

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 6

A terrible accident, resulting in the loss of three lives occurred at Numurkah (Vic.) on Thursday evening, when the special train was returning from…

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High-speed Railways

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 2

Berlin [?] Hamburg are about 155 miles apart in a straight line, with level country between presenting as good a field for a high-speed railway as any to be found in…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 2

A fatal railway accident is reported from Russia. A amil train on the main Cancasian line was wrecked near Rostoy-on-Don, a large city on the…

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Railway Accident at Numurkah

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 3

A frightful accident occurred near Numurkah last Thursday evening. A party of six persons, driving in a buggy across the railway line, were…

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Strategic Russian Railway. to Tap Afghanistan

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 2

Semi-official advices received from Astrabad, a decayed town in the north of Persia, announce that Russia will shortly commence the…

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Wentworth Railway Extension

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 2

A public meeting was held in the Wentworth Council Chambers recently, having been convened by the Mayor, at the request of the Railway…

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The Train Service

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 2

At the monthly meeting of the Rutherglen Shire Council a letter was read from the Council Clerk, Corowa, asking the council to support a…

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Railway Disaster. Forty-two Casualties. London, October 9

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 27

A terrible railway disaster, involving the wrecking of a passenger tram and serious loss of life, has occurred at Rostoff-on-Don, in Southern Russia. A mail train was…

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The Tram System

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 3

Just as we were beginning to think that Mr. Bradford's criticism of the management of the tramways had been (somewhat ignominiously)…

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Bogan Gate Trundle Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 17 October 1905 · page 3

The lowest tender received for the construction of the railway from Bogan Gate to Trundle was that of Mr. J.S. Abearn for the sum of [?]13,878…

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Murdered in a Train

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 18 October 1905 · page 2

At the inquest on the body of Miss Money, who was found murdered in a railway tunnel, a signalman testified that while the train was passing…

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General Cables. London, Tuesday. Murder in a Railway Tunnel. Inquest on the Late Miss Money

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 October 1905 · page 2

An inquest being held on the body of Miss Money, which was found in the Mersham [?] near Ashford, keat, and which hore unmistakable…

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Big Motor Race. Winning Car Sold for £1000. and Destroyed by Fire London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 October 1905 · page 2

The great American automobile race, for the Vanderbilt Cup. was run yesterday. The course was 293 miles in extent,…

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Wahgunyah- Springhurst Train the Winter Time- Table

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 October 1905 · page 3

Daily.--Dep. Wahgunyah. 7.30 a.m., leaving Springhurst on return at 1.28 p.m., are, Wahgunyah 2,8 p.m. Tuesdays end Thursdays.--Dep…

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The First Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 October 1905 · page 28

The report of the proposed lines of railway from the city of Sydney to the towns of Parramatta and Liverpool, as laid out for Sydney Railway Company by Mr…

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