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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1907

969 stories in Murray's papers · page 47 of 49

Wagga-Humula Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 31

Mr. John Archer, of Tarcutta, one of the most prominent of the leaders in the agitation for a railway to Humula for years past, and who was one of the recent deputation…

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British Railway Stocks. Increase in Value

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 2

It was recently reported that the Great Northern and Great Central Railway Companies had arranged a pooling scheme in order to avoid excessive competition. This…

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Shooting at a Railway Officer

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 5

Joseph Thomas, alias Young who is alleged to have shot Mr. Samuel Junes General Superintendent of the Transportation Branch of the Railway Department,…

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Railway and Tramway Revenue

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 December 1907 · page 3

The railway revenue for the week ending November 30 was £101,282, as against £110,120 for the corresponding week of 1905, or an increase of £1162. The…

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General Cable News London, Sunday. Fire in a Railway Tunnel. Fourteen Persons Suffocated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 December 1907 · page 2

A terrible fire occurred in the railway tunnel which is in course of construction for the Pennsylvania Company, between New York and New Jersey, and fourteen…

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Train-wrecking Attempt. an Engine Derailed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 2

An attempt has been made to blow up with dynamite a train conveying Sir Alexander, Fraser. Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, and his wife, when it was…

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Sensational Railway Collision. Goods Train and Special

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 3

A serious railway accident occurred on Sunday morning near Kilkiran Junction. A special train which was run from Brisbane to…

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Grasshoppers Block a Train. Kilmore

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 2

The district suffers from a veritable plague of grasshoppers. Last night the insects were on the railway line in such swarms that the traffic was…

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On the Uganda Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 3

The following is an amusing story concerning the adventures of a Babu stationmaster at a station called Simba, on the Uganda Railway…

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Pooling British Railways

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 3

The successful result of the pooling" scheme now in operation between the Great Northern and Great Central Railway Companies is…

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Altered Train Services

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 4

The new time-table on Victorian railway lines came into force on Monday last. Some of the alterations are as follows:--…

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The First Corridor Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 2

The "Great Western Railway Magazine" for September claims for that company the credit of producing the first complete corridor-train, combining the…

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U.s. Cure for Train Delays

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 6
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

That the American mail service is as yet by no mean perfect is made abundantly clear by a statement, according to which the American railroads during the…

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A Tramp Cat. Earns His Home

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 7
Also in The Riverine Grazier

Aside from her own nine lives, a pet cat which had been saved from the fate of being a prowling alley tabby by little Mary Stelow saved the Stelow family,…

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Motor Smash. Car Turns a Double Somersault. Driver Killed. Exciting Struggle with Photographers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 2

An untoward incident, which had a fatal termination, marred the success of the Brooklands automobile race meeting on Saturday, 14th September…

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Lockhart-clear Hills Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 9

On Friday, December 6 the Hon. C. A. Lee, Minister of Works, moved that the House sanction the construction of a line of railway from…

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Lookhart to Clear Hills Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 30

In the Legislative Assembly on Monday night the Minister for Works moved the expediency of sanctioning the construction of a line of rail way from Lockhart…

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INTERCOLONIAL. Explorers and Motor Cars

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 32

The dark places of the world are rapidly being thrown open to the eye of the explorer and by his means to the general public, for nowadays very few men push…

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