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Railways, roads & transport, 1907

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Cheap Railway Excursion

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 2

There will be special cheap excursion train from Corowa for Sydney on Thursday, October 3 leaving at 12.20 p.m., and tickets will be issued…

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Cablegrams. Threatened Railway Strike Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. What Does Recognition Imply? London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 2

Mr. Richard Bell, Labor Representative in the Honse of Commons for Derby, who is leading the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in their demand for…

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Railway Mishap

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 2

At Benalla on Monday a startling accident occurred, which fortunately was unattended by injury to any person, although Mr. Page, the locomotive foreman, had a…

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Man Killed in a Motor Race

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 3

At a motor race held on tie new Brooklands Motor racecourse, at Weighbridge, a Minera car driven by Vincent Herman, overturned, and…

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Death on a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 3

Edward John Sobye, engine driver, at the Werribee Sewerage Farm, Vic., died suddenly on the train whilst velling between Werribee and…

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Action Against the Railway Commissioners

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 3

An action was commenced in the County Court to-day by Mrs. Mary B.R. Courtney of Ormond, against the Victorian Railway Commissioners,…

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Railway Matters in England. Prospects of a Strike 90 Per Cent of the Men Favourable. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 2

Keen interest is still being manifested in the negotiations between the various Railway Companies in England and the Amalgamated Society of Railway Employes…

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Victorian Railway Employes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 2

A return giving particulars of the employes in the Victorian Railway department. furnished on the motion of Mr. Watt, has been laid on the table of the…

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Train Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 3

A verdict of accidental death was returned to-day at the inquest upon the body of Arthur Wilkey, a clerk, who fell off a train at Burwood on Monday. The…

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Child Falls Out of a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 3

The child who fell out of a moving train near Sandringham on Friday was unhurt, but Mrs. Goldsworthy, who apparently jumped after…

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Children's Page. For Young Australians Who Road "The Banner."

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 12

I am pleased to notice that there is no falling off in the number of my letters. New correspondents are added to my list every week, and old friends renew their…

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State-owned Railways Lord Brassey's Views. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 2

Lord Brassey, formerly Governor of the State of Victoria from 1895 to 1900, addressing a meeting of the Associated Commercers of Liverpool, suggested that the…

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Motor Trials. Versus Trains

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 8

Flying along the Brooklands track on Saturday, 29th July, Mr Edge, we read, "had the satisfaction of citing the L. and S. W. express as…

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Water and Motors

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 5

The ubiquitous motor-car has recently appeared in the Law Courts in a case involving the decision on a point different from those usually associated…

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Bishop of London's Escape. Tree Felled by Lightning Near His Motor-car

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 2

The Bishop of London had a narrow escape during the thunderstorm of Saturday, June 29th. He was motoring from London to…

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The Upper Murray Railway. Important Meeting at Albury

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 30

A notable gathering took place at the Council Chambers, Albury, on Friday morning last, when delegates from various places interested in the proposed line of railway…

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Railway Servants. Fears of a Strike. London, September 16

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 42

Quotations for shares in all the principal railway companies of the United Kingdom fell from 1½ to 3 points on the London Stock Exchange on Saturday…

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Threatened Railway Strike Tremendous Decline in Stocks. £10,000,000 in a Week! London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 September 1907 · page 2

Owing to the unsettled condition of affairs in the railway world in England, the shares of the various railway companies are being very seriously affected in value…

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Proposed Upper Murray Railway Public Meeting at Wodonga Wodonga League Formed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 September 1907 · page 5

A public meeting of the residents of Wodonga, convened by the president of the Shire (Cr. J. K. M Geoch) to consider the movement for a line…

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WAGRA. Friday. the Railway League

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 21 September 1907 · page 6

A meeting of the local branch of the Upper Murray Railway League was held yesterday, the chief business of which was the appointing of a delegate on the…

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