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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1915

847 stories in Murray's papers · page 38 of 43

Beautifying Albury Railway Station

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 17 November 1915 · page 4

Every year the New South Wales Railway commissioners award fairly substantial prizes for the best kept station garders ever certain defined demorcations…

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Swan Hill-Balranald Railway

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 17 November 1915 · page 2

A meeting of the combined railway leagues interested in the construction of the railway from Swan Hill to Balranald was held in the Wakool Hotel on…

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Fremantle to Sydney. Motor Car Reliability Record

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 18 November 1915 · page 3

A motor-car drive for reliability is being made by Messrs P. W. Armstrong and H. Fraser, two well-known West Australian motorists, and they left Fremantle…

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[?] Wool & Produce. Inspection of “John Bridge” System

The Berrigan Advocate · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 1

Over 150 country newspaper proprietors visited the wool and produce store of John Bridge & Co. on the 2[?]th October last, for the purpose of making…

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Selling Wool & Produce. Inspection of "John Bridge" System

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 5

Over 150 country newspaper proprietors visited the wool and produce store of John Bridge & Co. on the 29th October last, for the purpose of making…

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Selling Woll & Produce Inspection of "John Bridge" System

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 6

Over 150 country newspaper proprietors visited the wool and produce store of John Bridge & Co. on the 29th October last for the purpose of making…

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Drummer's Bad Day. Sleepy Town, Miserable Hotel, Business Nil, Train Late. Threatened White Jail

The Independent · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 4

The stranger stood on the cinder platform and scowled upon the works at large. He had spent the day in the town, and it had not only…

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Murder Railways. Joint Commission

The Independent · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday. [?] commission, comprising members of the New South Wales Public Works Committee and of te Rall…

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Two Railway Fatalities. Soldier Out to Pieces. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 2

Private Henry Dunn, a member of the Expeditionary Forces, was out to pieces by a train at Granville last night. An unknown man, about 40 years of age,…

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Railway Markets a Glutted Market. Sydney

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 6

At the railway markets to-day the yard was glutted. Wheaten chaff rates were lower, the best being 5s 9d and privately 6s…

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Big Zeppelins. Carry Motors of 450 Horse-Power

The Urana Independent and Clear Hills Standard · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 4

Built, as are all Zeppelins, with a rigid framework of reinforced aluminium, it has eighteen "napkin-ring" sections, each containing a gas-tight…

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Border Railways. a Joint Commission

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 November 1915 · page 3

A royal commission, comprising members of the New South Wales Public Works Committee and of the Railways Committee, of Victoria, has been…

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Western War Theatre. Exciting Aeroplane Incident. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 November 1915 · page 2

A Paris communique sys: "We silenced the enemy batteries in Audechy-of-[?], and the St. Aurin Due Essier sector." Field-Marshal sir John French…

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Cricket. Albury v. RAILWAY

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 20 November 1915 · page 4

The Albury B. team will meet Railway on Billson's Park this afternoon at 2.30. As some of the names of players are known to be "doubtful starters," It is…

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Motor Ship Australian Interesting Cargo Liner

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 20 November 1915 · page 3

The Australian, a motor ship flying the Danish flag, was an interesting arrival at Sydney on Monday last. She belongs to the…

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Riverina Railways

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Saturday 20 November 1915 · page 2

Questions were asked in Parliament by Mr W. J. Boston relative to Riverina railways:—Mount Horeb-Batlow, and The…

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Railway Tragedy in Albury. Mr. Gerald Griffith Killed. Near Albury Goods Station

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 22 November 1915 · page 3

A profound sensation was caused in Albury on Saturday morning as the news quickly spread that Mr. Gerald Thomas Griffith, grazier and wheatgrower of…

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Balkans Strategy. This Road to Constantinople. Gallipoli Unfeasible

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 23 November 1915 · page 2

Colonel Shumsky, the eminent Russian military expert, has received the Dardanelles campaign in the Petrograd "Bourse Gazette…

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Fatal Mishap. Albury Grazier Killed. Body on Railway Line

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 November 1915 · page 3

Gerald Thomas Griffith, a well known grazier, of Bulgandra, in the Albury district, was killed at the Albury railway yards on Saturday morning. No…

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Premier's Attack on Mr. Gardiner. Resented by Newcastle Railway Men. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 24 November 1915 · page 2

At a meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Amalgamated Railway Service Association consideration was given to the position which has arisen owing to the…

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