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Railways, roads & transport, 1908

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A Blow at the Arbitration Court. Auckland Tramway Employes Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 3

A telegram received from Auckland to-day announced that the tramway employes to the number of 250 had all gone out on strike. Traffic in the…

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Railway Returns

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 3

The railway returns for the seven days ending May 14 amounted to £62,927, OR £1114 [?]than the amount received for the corresponding…

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The North Shore Bridge

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 5

The Royal Commission which is inquiring into the question of connecting the city with North Sydney by a bridge or other means, resumed the…

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Cablegrams. an Awful Railway Accident. Grim Tragedy at Antwerp Forty Passengers Killed. Fight Others Injured. Indescribable Scenes of Agony. Flight of the Spinalman. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

News has just been received of a terrible railway accident which occurred near Antwerp, in Belgium, yesterday. Very few particulars are available, but…

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Murrurundi Railway Accident Apportioning the Blame

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 5

As a result of the inquiry into the cause of the railway collision at Murrurundi on Good Friday morning, when the Glen Innes and Brisbane mail…

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Wire-rope Tramways

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 3

Most visitors to Norway will have had their attention called to the wires running down the hillsides by means of which bundles of hay, etc…

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The Belgian Railway Disaster. Brussels Express Smashes Into a Waiting Train. Pathetic Feature of the Calamity. Young Girls in Their First Communion Dresses. Among the Killed. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1908 · page 2

Details of the railway disaster in Belgium show that the actual scene of the collision was the small village of Contich, sex miles from Antworp…

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Auckland Tram Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1908 · page 3

The position in regard to the strike of Tramway employes in Auckland still remains unchanged. The men still decline of submit the points in…

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Items of News. Possible Causes of Braybrook Railway Disaster

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 25 May 1908 · page 2

Two possibilities that night, in a witness opinion, have conduced to bring about the deplorable Braybrook Junction (Sunshine) calamity, were discussed at the…

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Auckland Tramway Strike

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

A cable message received here this morning from Auckland, New Zealand, announced that the strike of tramway employes in that city…

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The Proposed Far-west Railway

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 26 May 1908 · page 2

THE Minister for Works has now under consideration the construction of a railway line to the far western town of Broken Hill, and to enable…

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Unused Roads and Water Frontages Occupiers

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 2

Large numbers of occupiers in Victoria of areas included in the scope of the Unlised Roads and Water Frontages Act of 1909 have not yet applied to the…

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How I Train My War Dogs

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 3

Perhaps the article among a galaxy of splendid articles in this month's "Pearson's Magazine" is a paper by Major…

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Proposed North Shore Bridge. Evidence Before the Royal Commission. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 2

At the sitting to-day of the Royal Commission appointed to report upon the best methods of connecting North Shere with the city of Sydney,…

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Cablegrams. a Terrible Tramway Accident. a Pointsman;s Mistake. P[?]ladelphla Electric Cars Collide. for R Killed; Twelve Badly [?] LONDON

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 2

A [?]ragir [?] was made by a [?] as the Philadelphia electric tram-waya on [?]. [?] be [?] two [?]…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Tuesday. Sydney Tramway Employes. a Strike Threatened

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 5

Ar a meeting at the Trades Hall last night it was rumored that the drivers and conductors of the Sydney Government electric trams were likely…

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Ultima Railway Extension

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 3

A largely attended meeting was held in the Piangil hall recently to discuss the Ultima railway extension. Cr Jas. Barton occupied the chair…

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Fatal Tram Collision

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 2

Two tramcars collided at Philadelphia. Four people were killed and twelve injured…

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The Ultima Railway. to the Editor of the Age

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 4

Sir,—The railway surveyors are engaged with the proposed line from Ultima to Euston. I wish to point out the injustice done to the district by…

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Down the Murray in a Motor Skiff. Mr Brady Interviewed in Adelaide

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 27 May 1908 · page 4

It is delightful to meet a journalist of tho calibre of Mr E J Brady, and to catch some of his enthusiasm on that problem of problems—how to…

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