Terrible Railway Accident at Braybkook Junction, Victoria. The Bendigo Express Collides with a Stationary Ballarat Train. The Wrecked Carriages Catch Fire. Fearful Loss of Life. Over Forty Persons Killed, and Sixty Injured. How the Accident Happened—Various Accounts. SYDNEY
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 2
A terrible railway collision has occurred at Braybrook Junction, near Melbourne. The Bendigo Express crashed into a stationary Ballarat train, and several carriage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Railway Troubles. Threatended North-eastern Strick. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 2
Much meetings have been held by the discontented men in the employ of the North-Eastern Railway Company, at which they [?] to reject the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murrurundi Railway Accident. Thirty-three Passengers Injured. Eight Cases Serious. Report of the Private Inquiry. Sydney
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 3
The injuries sustained by passengers in the astounding railway collision at Murrurundi carly on Good Friday morning, when the Glen Innes and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gigantic Railway Project
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 3
The construction of the proposed Amur railway from Kujenga to [?] is estimated to cost £22,000,000 or about £10,000 per mile. One of the provisions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Braybrook Railway Disaster. Latest Telegrams, Bendigo Train Runs Against the Signal. Sydney
Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 April 1908 · page 2
A terrible railway collision has occurred at Braybrook Junction, near Melbourne. The Bendigo express crashed into a stationary Ballarat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Tramway Accident. Nine Persons Injured. Sydney
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1908 · page 5
During the tamporary absence of a driver from an [?] tramear at Bondl last night a number of people boarded the our, and awaited is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South African Railways Friction in the Transvaal. London
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1908 · page 5
Sir George Farrae, Sir Percy Fitzpulrick, and Mr. Quinn, have resigned their sealk on the Intercolonial Council of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Murrurundi Railway Collision
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1908 · page 2
A meeting at the Cabinet was hold to-day at which the appointment of a special board of inquiry in connection with the Murrurundi railway collision…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appalling Railway Catastrophe Disaster Near Melbourne. Collision of Bendigo and Ballarat Trains Forty-Three Persons Killed Eighty-Eight Injured Lists of the Victims
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1908 · page 2
The most appalling railway disaster in t he history of Australia occurred at Sunshine (formerly known as Braybrook Junction), seven miles from Melbourne, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Returns. Darge Inoreases
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1908 · page 2
The returns of passengers carried over the railways show that, between 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. yesterday [?]12,000 person travelled over the lines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Easter Monday Holiday Traffic. Record Tramway Returns. Three Quarters of a Million Passengers. Sydney
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 22 April 1908 · page 2
Yesterday the Sydney tramways carried a record number of passengers for the Easter Monday holiday. Approximately 790,000 persons were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Braybrook Railway Catastrophe the Scene Described Collision of Bendigo and Ballarat Trains Forty-Three Persons Killed One Hundred and Fifty Injured Several More Likely to Die
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 23 April 1908 · page 2
The dreadful horror of the railway catastrophe which occurred through the collision between the Bendigo and Ballurat trains in[?] on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Aeroplane. Mysterious Invention. of an Italian Count
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 7
Also in Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press
The "Daily News" of 7th February states that nearly a dozen of the principal residents of Norbury waited several hours on the previous day,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Engineering a Railway Accident. Obstructions Placed on the Line. to Derail the Cooma Train. Sydney
The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 3
While an electrician Christie in the employ of the Railway Dept., was riding a railway [?] on the main southern [?] near Gloulburn late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Train Collision. Carriages Telescoped. Many Passengers Injured
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 31
The mail train which left Sydney for Glen Innes at 34 minutes past 7 o'clook on Thursday, night, collided at half-past 2 next morning at Murr?rundi, with the second division…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →"Wellington, Balfour Road, Kensington, April 9, 1908
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 13
Dear Uncle Jeff",—I was very pleased yon liked the scrap I sent in with my last letter. We are collecting sonic money at our school to send a flag home to Kensington…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Terrible Railway Collision The Bendigo Express Runs into a Stationary Train from Ballarat. Serious Loss of Life Many Casualties. MELBOURNE
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 7
A terrible railway collision occurred at Bray brook Junction, near Melbourne. The Bendigo Express, full…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Driver of the Bendigo Train. His Explanation. Brake Wouldn't Act!
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 30
The engine driver of the Bendigo train, Leonard Milburn, an elderly, experienced man, states that when approaching Sunshine station he noticed that the signals…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →New Aeroplane. Joan of Abc Re-painted. Mysterious Invention. of As Italian Count. M. Anatole France's Story
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 5
The "Daily News" of 7th February states that nearly a dozen of the principal residents of Norbury waited several hours on the previous day, From Paris on 6th July the correspondent of the "Dally News" wrote:—When the clerical war was hottest, a Parisian schoolmaster, M. Thalamas…
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