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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1910

1,064 stories in Murray's papers · page 14 of 54

New South Wales Money Left in a Train. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 16 May 1910 · page 3

A Polish lady who arrived, in Sydney by the Melbourne express on Friday left a purse containing £82 in a railway carriage. Discovering her loss, she communicated…

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Keep to the Left! the Rule of the Road

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 16 May 1910 · page 4

"What side of the road are cyclists and drivers of vehicles supposed to take?" asked a stranger to Albury of an authority recently. "The left" was the reply. The…

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Trams to Stop for 15 Minutes

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 16 May 1910 · page 2

The London County Council has decided to arrange that at the moment the funeral procession leaves Westminister Hall on Friday next, all tramcars shall remain at…

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Fatal Motoring Accidents. at the 24 Hours' Race. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 16 May 1910 · page 2

The Twenty-Four Hours' Motor Race was held on the track it Brighton Beach yesterday. It was a chapter of accidents. First one of the cars dashed into a…

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Increase in Railway Employes' Wages

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 May 1910 · page 2

The arbitrators have awarded the conductors and train men employed on the Vanderbilt lines to the west of Buffalo increases in wages averaging 7 per cent. The…

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Barriers at Railway Station the System to Be Modified

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 May 1910 · page 6

Messrs J. Campbell and M. Blasb[?] who were appointed by the Chamber of Commerce to wait upon the stationmaster at Albury and urge the removal of the…

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Indecent Language in a Railway Carriage

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 18 May 1910 · page 6

Thomas Tyler was charged at the Albury Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. F. Butler, P.M., with using indecent language on the previous night…

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Fatal Road Collision Motor Car and Buggy. Four Demijohns of Beer on Board. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 19 May 1910 · page 3

An in inquiry was opened to-day into the circumstances surrounding the death of Arthur Gullick, which took place on Sunday, May 1, as the result of aa collision…

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Canadian Aeroplane

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 43

The Canadian Government has purchased the biplane invented by Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, with which he and Mr. J. A. M'Curdy have been experimenting for some…

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Church Reader Shot At. Country Road Incident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 45

Mr. W. H. Shelley, stipendiary reader of Holy Trinity Church of England, Rochester (Vic.) was driving a gig from the Warragamba church to the Bamawm…

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Wages in America. Demands by Railway Men. Increases Awarded. London, May 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 45

The decision of some of the railroad companies operating east of Buffalo, to make a percentage increase in the wages of their employes, was followed by…

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Sensational Motor Racing. Three Cars Come to Grief. Two Men Killed. London, May 14

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 43

A 21-hours' motor race, held on the Brighton beach track on Saturday, was crowded with sensational incident. A cardashed into a fence, killing the…

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Killed on the Railway Line. Brisbane

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 2

The dead body of a woman, which has since been identified as that of a Mrs. Rolls, was found on the railway line near Ipswich this morning lying in a pool of…

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Railway Statistics Decrease

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 2

A considerable falling off in the number of railway passengers in Great Britain during 1909 has been disclosed. Statistics for the year, as compared with the year 1908…

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The Bagdad Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 2

The Porte has, for strategical reasons, abandoned the idea of extending the Bagdad Railway to Alexandretta on the Gulf of Iskanderun, and has reverted to the…

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Proposed Eden-monaro Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 4

At a large and enthusiastic public meeting held at Eden on Tuesday it was unanimously decided to form, a league having for its object the connecting of the rich…

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Cross-country Railway Project

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 2

The delegates from the North-Eastern district interested in the proposed cross country railway to connect Bendigo with the Sydney line, via Rushworth,…

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Motor Boating. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 23 May 1910 · page 3

The motor boat race, to Broken Bay and back was held yesterday. It was won by Narwonah, with Betty, which won the event last year, second…

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Rabbits on Roads

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 25 May 1910 · page 4

At the last meeting of the Wagga Pastures Protection Board a lengthy discussion took place regarding the responsibility respectively of P.P…

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Wagga-tumbarumba Railway. the Movement Resuscitated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 25 May 1910 · page 6

A meeting of the Wagga-Tumbarumba-Humrda Railway League was held at Wagga on Saturday to discuss the situation that has arisen in regard to the railway…

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