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Railways, roads & transport, 1908

918 stories in Murray's papers · page 11 of 46

New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Dreadful Railway Accident. Woman Falls Between Train and Platform

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 13 April 1908 · page 3

A middle-aged woman named Connie Riley met with a horrible accident at the Sydney railway station yesterday evening. She attempted to board a…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Monday. Man Run Over by a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 14 April 1908 · page 3

The northern mail train was over one hour late in arriving in Sydney to-day. The delay was in part caused through the train having run over a…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Run Over by a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 April 1908 · page 5

Mrs. Selina Cameron, 76 years of age, who was an inmate of the Newington Asyium, was fun over by a train on the railway bridge at the…

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The Amur Railway. Funds for Its Construction Requested. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 April 1908 · page 2

M. Stolypin, Premier of Russia, has strongly urged the Duma to vote funds for the construction of the Amur railway, in Eastern Siberia…

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Motoring Round the World. the London to Paris Race. Weather Conditions Unfavorable. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 15 April 1908 · page 2

The New York to Paris motor race (17,000 miles) is being seriously interfered with by abnormal weather conditions. From the starling point across the…

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On the Uganda Railway

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 15 April 1908 · 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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The Road to India. Russian Spy Arrested. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 April 1908 · page 3

Some stir has been created by the arrest of a Russian evidently a spy, in Afghan territory. The suspect, who has been identified…

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Accident at Central Railway Station

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 16 April 1908 · page 3

The woman Connie Riley, who was injured by a train at Central Railway station on Saturday evening died in the hospital to-day…

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STORYTELLER. Her Splendid Sin. Chapter Xiii. Laying the Train

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1908 · page 8

Reynell did not, however, proceed immediately to exercise the whip-hand on which he had congratulated himself. Having listened to the very end of the transaction,…

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Train Wrecking an Attempt That Failed. London, April 11

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1908 · page 43

The trial has been concluded at Calcutta of six men, who were concerned in an attempt to wreck a special train containing the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal (Sir…

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

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 April 1908 · page 12

More interesting letters to-day. Still they come—old friends and now ones too. Oh, the Drought! It is a topic of universal discussion amongst my correspondents—from…

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Private Land Subdivisions. Railway Facilities

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 17 April 1908 · page 6
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser, The Riverine Grazier

BONA FIDE land seekers with a fair amount of capital have had excellent opportunities during the past three months of seeing first-class properties…

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The World's Most Wonderful Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 3

On the 8th of June last, the Tsar formally ratified a resolution of the Council of Ministers in favour of commercing forthwith the…

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Railways in Manchuria. Opening Up the Amur Valley. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 2

The scheme of opening up Russian Manchuria to agricultural settlement by railway construction, proposed by the Prime Minster, M. Stolypin, has been accepted…

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Sensational Railway Accident. a Good Friday Collision Between Brisbane and Glen Innes Mail Trains. Twenty Persons Injured Murrundi Hospital Crowded with Injured. the Staff Overtaxed. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 5

A railway collision of a most sensational nature occurred at the railway station at Murrundi, a town 217 miles north of Sydney, at an early…

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Burglars at Cooma. Railway Safe Blown Open

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 3

A daring burglary was committed at the Cooma Railway Station early on Sunday warning, the safe being blown open, and £149…

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Railway Smash. at Murrun[?] Two Trains Collide. Both Heavily Laden. Twenty Persons Injured. Sydney

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 2

Early this morning a big railway smash occurred Murru[?] the [?] Innes train from Sydney colliding with terrific force with the Brisbane until…

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Steamer Races a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 3

The Canadian mail steamer [?] from Vaucouver, vin Brisbane, arrived in Sydney this morning several hours ahead of the Brisbane mail train on…

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