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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1912

1,250 stories in Murray's papers · page 38 of 63

U.S. Railway Troubles. Extensive Strike Feared. Chicago

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 2

There appears to be small hope of an amicable settlement of the differences between the various railway companies operating to the south and west of this city,…

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Adrift in Motor Boat. Three Days Without Food

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 4

Mr. George Walker, . electrician., in the employ of the Sydney City Council, who left Cook's River on Sunday morning in a 20-foot launch for" a fishing excursion,…

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Fatal Railway Collision.y English Jockey Killed. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 2

News has been received from the South of France of a railway disaster accompanied by loss of life. An express collided with a local train ine…

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Jerilderie-Deniliquin Railway League

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 2

A meeting of the members of the sub-committee of the above was held in the Mechanics' Institute on Wednesday evening last. The Mayor in the…

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Clear Hills or Oaklands to Mulwala Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 4

The Public Works Committee will pay a visit of inspection to the route of the proposed railway from Oaklands to Malwala this month, and take…

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Riverina Railways

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 3

No time is being lost, by the Victorian Government in carrying out the agreement come to with, this State for the extension of railways into the…

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Riverina Railways. Henty to Daysdale Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 5

The Public Works Committee took the evidence of Mr. E. S. Vaughan, Department of Lands, in further consideration of the expediency of…

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French Railway Collision. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 5

It was reported on Wednesday that at the result of a railway collision at LabatuL in the Department of Landes, an English jockey. name Fanford has been…

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Motor Launch's Long Voyage. New York to Queenstown. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 5

A long voyage has been accomplished by the motor launch. Detriot.. This small vessel left New York three weeks ago, and has arrived at Queenstown. across the Atlantic…

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Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company. Half-yearly Meeting

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 2

The seventy-sixth half-yearly meeting; of shareholders in the above Company was held on Tuesday morning. S. G. Staughton, T. Kineaid ( directors)…

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Fatal Railway Accident. a Train Derailed Boston, Friday

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 August 1912 · page 2

A railway mishap in which several lives were lost. took place here yesterday. "A train, was derailed, with the. result that two enginemen and a passenger were killed,…

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Railway Juggernauts. Train and Electric Car. Fatal Collision At" Night. Cleveland (Ohio)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 August 1912 · page 2

Intelligence of a collision between an electric car on the .Cleveland, South Was tern, and Columbus Interurban line, and a train on the Baltinore and Ohio railway…

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Tram Traffic Dislocated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 12 August 1912 · page 3

The tram, traffic was mach. impeded hist night owing to the enforcement of the new regulation forbidding standing on the tram, footboards. The conductors had…

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Speed of Motor Cars

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 4

At the last meeting of the Hume Shire Council it was decided to place a limit of 10 miles an hour to the speed of motor cars passing through certain places. The…

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Albury Railway Porter Injured. One of His Fingers Severed

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2

Whilst engaged transhipping a steel girder at the Albury railway station yester­day morning a porter named Leslie Costello met with a very painful accident…

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Railway V. Britons

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 4

The team to represent the Railway against the Britons on the sports ground on Wednesday, will be chosen from the following:—McLean (2), Birtles. Rodgie…

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Acres of Train Tickets

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 4

The inveation of the ticket-printing machine by Thomas Edmondson, a railway-clerk on the Newcastle and…

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Ghastly Qutrage by Rebels. Train Passengers Massacred and Mutilated. Mexico City

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 5

The rebels attacked a passenger train from an ambush in a canyon near Tien man, The rebels shot down in cold blood 36 soldiers, who were aboard, and…

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Tram Travellers Irritated

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 2

The enforcement of the new regulation prohibiting people standing on the foot­boards of trams is causing a lot of irritation. Traffic is much delayed owing to…

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Football. Railway V. Britons

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 6

The team to represent the Britons against the Railway this afternoon will be chosen from:—C. Newton( cap.), Dash-wood, Paine. Kimball, Hickey, Burton…

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