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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1909

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Highest Metal Bridge in the World

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 25 December 1909 · page 2

There has just been finished in A[?]erg[?]e, France, what is supposed to be the highest metal bridge in the world, the viaduct des Fades. This…

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Railway to Euston. an Adverse Report

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 29 December 1909 · page 3

The Victoria Railways Standing Committee in its most recent reports is calling a halt in railway construction. Recently the report on the…

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Corowa Train

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 5

Our Culcairn contemporary writes :-- "A week or so back the railway department was compelled to curtail the train service between Culcairn and Corowa,…

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New Year Pranks at Wodonga Tampering with Railway Line

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 4

Hands of young follows indulged in a great deal of hoinferoun merriment at Wodonga on Friday night in celebrating the death of the old and the birth of the…

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How Railway Accidents Are Averted

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 44

Though railway disasters of a serious kind happen, comparatively speaking, only very seldom it nevertheless must not be supposed that narrow "squeaks." do…

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Cowardly Motorist an Old Woman Killed

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 December 1909 · page 5

Callous conduct on the part of a motor cyclist was described to the E[?] Sussex coroner at Tuesday's (October 12) inquest on Frances Judith…

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