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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1908

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Items of News. Telephone to Wodonga Railway Station

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 2

In February last Messrs. Mathieson, Davin, Walkier and Co., realising to great difficulty of getting into communication with the Wodonga…

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English Railway Amalgamation

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 3

An official denial has been given to the rumors that the Midland, the London and North-Western, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Companies had agreed…

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Railway Sensation Max's Miraculous Escape

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 41

An unknown passenger made a sensational leap from the Adelaide-Melbourne express train near Glenorehy at 4 o'clock on Saturday morning. The train was travelling at…

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Brandy for a Motor Car

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 6
Also in Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser

The following is a letter sent by a correspondent to "Motor Traction," which journal congratulated the writer on his combined system of fuel tasting…

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The Barrier Railway. The Monindie-ivanhoe Route

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 4

The following is the case for the proposed route from Broken Hill to Condobolin, as stated to the S.M. HERALD'S representative;…

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Tramway Traffic

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 3

Mr. Rnceshaw, superintendent of tranways, has been giving the [?] provement con[?]nission some striking figures respecting street traffic…

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Closer Settlement. Resumption Notices. Large Areas of Brookong and Other Estates. 159,548 Acres to Be Resumed. Alongside Proposed Railway to Clear Hills

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 1

In the "Government Gazette" of 3rd: inst there appears proclamations under the Closer Settlement Act and in connection with the…

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Blazing Motor Car Falls Over Cliffs

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 2

The occupants of a motor car experienced an exciting and sensational few minutes yesterday on the brink of the cliffs at Beachy Head, near Eastbourne…

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Saturday Nights Express Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 June 1908 · page 2

The Sydney express train which [?] Albury on Saturday night was the heaviest which has run from the Albury station for many years. The…

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Afloat for Five Days. on a Broken Down Motor Boat

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 June 1908 · page 3

Considerable anxiety has been felt regarding the fate of three occupants of a motor fishing boat, which lef Woolgoolga on Monday, and of…

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New South Wales. Sydney, Sunday. Asleep on the Railway Line

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 June 1908 · page 3

A drover named Houd fell asleep on the railway line near Young early yesterday morning. A passing tram thundered over him, the wheels…

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Railway Collision in India. Passengers Killed and Injured Carriages Set on Fire. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 29 June 1908 · page 2

A shocking railway disaster has occurred near Bombay, but only the most meagre particulars have yet been received…

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Closer Settlement. Resumption Notices. Large Areas of Brookong and Other Estates 159,548 Acres to Be Resumed. Alongside Proposed Railway to Clear Hills

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 30 June 1908 · page 1

In the Government Gazotto" of 8rd. inst, there appears, proclamations under the Closer Settlement Act and in connection with the…

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Items of News. Fall From a Motor

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 1 July 1908 · page 2

Mr. R. White, of Mahonga station, met with a painful accident when leaving Mahonga for Albury yesterday morning. A party consisting of…

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Law Against Bridge. Consternation in America

Tocumwal Guardian and Finley Free Press · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 6
Also in The Riverine Grazier

Fashionable and diplomatic circles in Washington are bemoaning the fate which threatens not only to deprive them of the liberty occasionally to risk…

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Terrible Train Accident. an Alderman Killed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 28

Alderman Patrick Joseph Drindon, of Rookwood, was run over and killed by a train at the Rookwood railway station on Wednesday morning, He intended…

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The Victorian Railway Disaster

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 32

Just as the inquest into the Sunshine disaster was about to enter quietly on its concluding stages on Friday some starting evidence was given, which aroused new…

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Blazing Motor-Car. Falls Over a Cliff. London, June 28

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 July 1908 · page 43

A party of motorists travelling past Beechy Head, on the Sussex. Coast, had a remarkably narrow escape of losing their lives by being precipitated with the car…

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