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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1914

1,259 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 63

New Railway Travelling Predicted

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 7 March 1914 · page 4

What is to take the place of the steam locomotive was considered, by Mr. F. W. Lanchester in a British Association paper. After nearly a…

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Baby Put in Wrong Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 2

On Saturday a lady who was travelling to Melbourne put her little is months' old baby boy in what she thought was a train hound for the Victorian capital. and then…

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Howlong to Barnawartha Railway. a Voice From Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 9 March 1914 · page 2

On the 18th of this month a large deputation from Howlong will ask the Victorian Minister for Railways to link up the Victorian system with that of New…

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New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 2

On Thursday last, in the Industrial Court, Mr. Justice Heydon granted registration to the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association,…

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Tumbarumba. a District with a Future. Industries Awaiting Development. Stimulus of the Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 4

Tumbarumba district, which embraces over two and a quarter million acres, offer numerous advantages as a field for settlement. The land is of differing…

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Shocking Cattle Trucking Conditions. Without Water for Over Three Days. Sixty Cattle Killed Shambles at Wodonga Railway Yards

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 3

Forty trucks of cattle from Armidale, N.S.W., arrived at Wodonga on Sunday morning in a shocking condition, and under circumstances involving great cruelty…

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Ford Motor Company. Sharing the Profits with Employees

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 1

According to a London paper, the "Weekly Dispatch," the outlook for the employees of the Ford Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., is…

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Destructive Fire. Motor Car and Sulkies Destroyed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 3

A disastrous fire occurred shortly after midnight on Friday, when an iron shed at the rear of Mr. J. P. Buggy's residence in Walker-street, together…

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Henty-daysdale Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 3

"Bulgandraite," writing to the Henty "Observer," says:-- "Re proposed Henty-Daysdale railway line. What has become of it? What has happened…

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New Motor Car

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 10 March 1914 · page 3

Mr. T. J. Gorman, of "Plenty[?]," arrived in Corowa on Sunday afternoon last in his new 30 h.p. "Vauxhall" car, which he purchased through the…

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Chinese Aeroplane

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 3

China is making progress. A biplane has been constructed recently at the Nanyuan Aviation School entirely, under Chinese supervision. All…

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Snake in a Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 3

As the passengers were pouring out of a crowded train at the Opera underground station in Parts, at the buslest hour of the morning, the cry…

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Wakool Shire Council and Road Surveys

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 1

At the last meeting of the Wakool Shire Council Mr. A. H. Stephens, staff surveyor, interviewed the council re the proposed alteration of Nesbitt's…

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Railway Cattle Scandal. Shambles at Wodonga

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 2

A further consignment of cattle for the Metropolitan Board of Works Board of Works' farm at Werribee arrived at Wodonga yesterday afternoon, and were untrucked in fairly…

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Motor Accident. Miraculous Escapes

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 2

On Sunday week a party of motorists, consisting of Messrs A. Carra, D. Smith and M. Burns, of Deniliquin, and G. Pollard and son, of Mathoura, were…

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CORRESPONDENCE. Henty-Doysdale Railway

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Wednesday 11 March 1914 · page 2

Sir,—I note by a paragraph in your paper under heading "Henty-Daysdale Railway" that you state you have a note from Mr Cusack…

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The Need for Good Roads

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 2

What may be called the mayoral policy speech, which was delivered by Alderman Waugh at the mayoral dinner on Tuesday evening, can be regarded from no other…

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The Railway Cattle Scandal, Armidale Cattle Quarantined at Wodonga

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 2

A sensational development has occurred in connection with the consignment of cattle from Armidale, which, as reported in Tuesday's "Border Morning Mail,"…

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Wilson Street Railway Gates. Complaints From Residents

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 12 March 1914 · page 4

Twelve residents of Wilson street east, Parkinson and Ran streets, Albury, want the lamp at the Wilson street railway gates lit, and also suggest an…

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The Aeroplane

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 March 1914 · page 13

Leave us the air. enough to jar Of shorting engine grinding car; The very heavens [?] now would ma[?] Leave us the air!…

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