Heaviest Bridge Span
The heaviest independent span of any bridge has just been completed over the River Wear at Sunderland. This bridge has two decks, the upper carrying the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murray · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1909
706 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 36
Train Held Up
A gang of 30 youths armed with revolvers and bombs, on Saturday night September 26, seized a small railfway station near Vilna, and held up the mall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Road to Glory. I.
"Hi, hi, Jonah Quail! Dicky Sturm be a coom back from the wars! Shift your lazy hulk and coom and see him-up at his feyther's farm."…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Railway Combines
We seem to be rapidly nearing the time when much of the present competition on the iron road will come to an end. Two or three years ago "rings" were formed in…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →The Uganda Railway
All day long the train [?] upward and westward, through [?] and un[?] ground [?] with [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Tumbarumba Railway
Owing to the progress made in surveying a railway line from Humula to Tumbarumba, the railway camp, which has been for name time stationed six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tramcar Accident
The woman who was knocked down by a tramear at Glifton Hill on Friday night and received a fracture of the skull, was to-day identified at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Buffalo Road Race. of Twenty-five Miles. Dorando Again Collapses
The 25 Mile Road Race, promoted at H[?], U.S.A., which was run on Saturday, was won by a [?] named Longboat…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast Railway. Tenders for the Third Section. Will Cost Half a Million Pounds. Sydney
Tenders were opened at the Department of Publics Works this afternoon for the construction of the third section of the North Conal railway line,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill Strike. Railway Line Blown Up. Fifty More Police on the Way. Sydney
It is stated that another [?] of police, numbering at least 50 constables, will leave for Melbourne by to-night's express, an route for Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Motor Trip to Sydney
Mr. H. A. Hay, of Collendina yelept "The Skipper," at the wheel af his 21-35 h.p. "Millerve" left Curowa at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, 23rd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Urana-lockhart Railway. Government Resumptions on the Route
A good deal has been beard of lata (writes the southern correspondent of the "Farmer and Setter") inspecting the proposed resumption along the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Enthusiast's Loss. 14 Cars Destroyed by Fire. London
A dis[?]trous fire occurred at Hayes, in Middlesex last night. Plokering Manor, the residence of Mr. [?]tly Walker, a noted patron of motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramps' Queer Money Boxes
A tramp applying for permission to enter the casual word of a workhouse in England must not be in possession of money, or he renders himself liable to be…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →The Toll of the Motor
The danger of London's streets is steadily on the increase. After reading the recently-issued report of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, no other…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →Increased Victorian Railway Revenue
The Victorian railway revenue for the ten days ending December 31, 1908, amounted to £33,074, on the to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Army Aeroplane. a Trial Flight
Mr. Cody, the well-known moohaniatan who has been associated with Colonel Capper and other in a the various attempts to perfect a type of military dirigible balloon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sudden Math of a Priest. in a Railway Train. Bairnsdale
Father Synott, who for the past eight years, has been parish prin[?] at Balrondala, met his and this afternoon is a most [?] manner…
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