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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

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King Edward's Motor Car. Runs Over a Man

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 25 October 1906 · page 3

An elderly man ran under the King's motor car at Hyde Park corner to-day, and was injured. King Edward directed that the man…

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Railways and the Roads

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 3

Country members of the Legislative Assembly are going to hold a meeting to urge that the Railway commissioners should help to maintain roads…

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Female Bridge Players

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 7

In the opinion of "Sigma," of the "Dally Chronicle," women rarely play well, and they are almost invariably bad losers. "A woman who reached the…

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Bigger Than the Forth Bridge

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 4

The immense bridge now being thrown across the St. Lawrence River a few miles above Quebec will be in some respects the most…

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Great Railway Smash

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 42

Reuter's agency is in receipt of advices of a great railway smash at Oka, a town on the railway line running from Moscow to Kursk (330 miles to the south)…

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Rush of Wheat. American Railways Presed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 41

Great trouble is being experienced in transporting the wheat harvest of the United States, owing to the heavy supplies forward and the failure of the…

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N.S.W. Parliament. the North-coast Railway Bill Carried. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 3

The Legislative Assembly sat all right last night over the North-Coast Railway Bill. At seven o'clock this morning the…

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Tramcar's Flight. Panic and Collision. Sixty People Injured

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 6

From Rome on 16th July the correspondent of the London "Daily Mall" wrote:— Yesterday at Frascati, a small…

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To the Jung-frau. an Alpine Railway

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 6

The success of the Alpine railways, notably of those around Interlaken, encouraged Mr Guyer-Zeller, an engineer of Zurich, to venture a railway to the…

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Wahcunyah Railway Station

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 October 1906 · page 5

An exceptionally busy time is being experience at the Wahgah yah railway station, and the stationmaster and all the officers and…

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The Working of a Single Line Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 October 1906 · page 4

In districts where the traffic is not very heavy or where the directors have not much competition to fear the single line still exists. On these…

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Railway Concessions to Land Seekers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 October 1906 · page 2

Under the new railway by laws, it is provided that persons who have applied for land under the Croser Settlement Act, 1904, will be allowed, a…

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Railway Accident in America. Cars Precipitated From a Drawbridge. Seventy Persons Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 October 1906 · page 2

A terrible railway accident is reported from Atlantic City, New Jersey (U.S.A.), a fashionable watering place on the Atlantic coast…

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Molong Railway Accident

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 October 1906 · page 2

Later information respecting the railway collision at the Molong railway station, as a result of which a number of people were injured, is to…

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Trouble Between Cabmen. Pushing Incident at the Railway Station. Comment by the Police

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 30 October 1906 · page 3

At the Albury Police Court yesterday morning, Herbert Felstead, a cabman was charged before the police magistrate with riotous behaviour…

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Railway Accident in America. a Brave Mohan. Saves Her Husband's Life. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 31 October 1906 · page 2

Only six passengers escaped from the first two cars in the wrecked trin at Atlantic City. One of these was a woman who…

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Railway disaster. Train Falls Off a Bridge. Seventy People Drowned. London, October 29

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 42

A dreadful railway accident has occurred in the United States at Atlantic City, a popular seaside resort on Absecum Beach, New Jersey, 53 miles south-east of…

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No. 3.—Travelling on Bad Roads

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 13

A traveller sets out on a journey, intending to finish it in six days, and to travel 20 miles a day, but finds from the state of the roads that he must travel…

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Transcontinental Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 33

A public meeting of citizens to consider the question of the transcontinental railway on the land grant system to connect Adelaide with Port Darwin, was held in…

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Ariah Park Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1906 · page 45

It is understood that the railway from Temora to Ariah Park will be handed over to the Commissioners on Monday next, when it will be opened for public traffic…

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