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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1918

761 stories in Murray's papers · page 20 of 39

Circus Train Telescoped Driver Ignored Signals Chicago

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 3

Sixty-nine people were killed in a railroad collision on the Michigan central line at Ivanhoe, Indiana, at midnight on Saturday…

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Thieving on Railways Increased Vigilance

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 June 1918 · page 4

Thieving on the Victorian railway has become a much more hazardous enterprise since March, when Mr. Agar Wynne made his sensational statement in…

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Holocaust by Bridge and Ford

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 2

Latest news on Monday is that the Austrians have wholly evacuated Montello, and have recrossed the river, partly by the one remaining bridge and partly by…

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Deputation re Bridge at Tooleybuc

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 3

Residents of both sides of the Murray River on Friday last waited on the Minister of Public Works in Melbourne to again urge the claims of the district…

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Crime in Germany Grenades Thrown at Train

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 3

German newspapers prove that criminal its is increasing in Germany, necessitating the employment in Berlin of extra police, and of military guards in the most…

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Pilfering From Railways. Cases at Albury. a Man Fined on Three Charges

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 2

At the Albury Police Court yesterday before, the P.M. and Mr M. J. D'Arcy. J.P., a man named John Jones, aged 10, on bail, was charged with stealing a…

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Attitude of the Dutch. Germans Use Limburg Railway

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 3

[?] M'Neill (Unionlist) asked:— What are the terms on which Holland agreed to allow Germany to use the Limburg railway? Is…

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RAILWAY v. Albury Clerks

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 June 1918 · page 4

On the Albury Sports ground on Saturday next a team representing the Albury Railway will play the Clerks. ~…

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A Wonderful Road

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 4

Search where you will you will find no highway in the whole world so romantic as the Grand Trunk Road of India. A stately avenue of three…

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Dalgety Railway Line Council Grants Permission. Counter Petition Unsuccessful

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 3

At the meeting of the Albury Municipal Council last night the following recommendation front the Works Committee was adopted in connection with…

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Rats Invade Albury Rodents Appear at Railway Station

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 2

At last night's meeting of the Albury Municipal Council, Aid. Burrows said it had been reported to him that rats had i made their appearance at the Albury…

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Alleged Laroony. From Berrigan Railway Yard

The Berrigan Advocate · Thursday 27 June 1918 · page 2

During last week a man was Man enter the railway yard at Berrigan and remove a roll of hessian from the vicinity of the wheat stacks, and the…

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Germans Use Dutch Railway

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 June 1918 · page 23

The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Lord Robert Cecil) stated [?] the House of Commons on Monday that the British Government had repeatedly…

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Aleeged Conspiracy to Defraud Goods Despatched on Railways Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 28 June 1918 · page 2

To-day at the Central Police Court, sixmen, John Napier, William Napier. Alfred Smith, Reuben Holmes, Percy Gillingham, and Henry Harris, were charged with…

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Correspondance Dalgety Railway Line. (To the Editor)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 28 June 1918 · page 3

Sir.—In to-day's "Border Morning Mail" I read where Alderman Logan said he noticed three name of property owners in the locality concerned…

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Albury-wodonga Road Reconstruction of Bridges

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 June 1918 · page 3

Mr. J. C. Truss, secretary of the Albury Chamber of Commerce, has received the following letter from the Country Roads Beard, Titles Office, Melbonrne:—…

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Alteration in Railway Rates in New South Wales Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 June 1918 · page 3

Executive approval was given to-day for alterations in railway rates and conditions, to operate from July 1. In the case or racehorses the free…

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Delivery of Produce at Railways Dumping in Yards. Sydney

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 29 June 1918 · page 3

A deputation representing primary producers interviewed the Railway Commissioners to-day, to discuss the question of dumping produce in railway yards. It…

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Mails by Aeroplane. (Reuter)

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 1 July 1918 · page 2

Aerial mail circuits with Qu[?]ee and Montreal are being inaugurated, following successful experiments a week ago…

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Enlarging Albury Railway Yards. [?] Big Scheme Contemplated? Probable Closing of Wilson Street Railway Gates. Surveyors at Work

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 1 July 1918 · page 3

For some time past it has been mooted that a scheme for the enlargement of the shunting yards at the Albury railway station was under consideration by the New…

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