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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1927

936 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 47

Railways Control

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 February 1927 · page 12

A deputation waited upon the Parliamentary Labour party, and requested the enactment of the proposed Railways Bill, changing the personnel of…

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Motor Driver Fined Suspected Stolen Car

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 February 1927 · page 2

At the Police Court this morning, before Messrs G. F. Griffin and F. Coogan, Js.P. James Albert Ernest Watkins (18)…

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Bridge at Menindie. Sunken Pier Put of Plumb

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 5 February 1927 · page 2

A report has been circulating at Menindie for some weeks that one of the four piers sunk in the bed of the Darling River at Menindie to carry…

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Back Country Road Improvements. Four New Bridges

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 5 February 1927 · page 1

It is well known Hint when the Willandrs Creek is in flood it crosses the main Bairandld to Ivanhoe Road, and it is then necessary to make a…

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Motor Notes a Good Way to Carry Tools

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1927 · page 4

The locker at the rear of a single seater car usually presents an appearance of chaos, everything being dropped in haphazard, so that when…

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Rand-coreen Railway P.w. Dept. Will Investigate

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1927 · page 3

The Public Works Committee have under consideration the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Rand toward Coreen…

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New South Wales Government Railways. Excursion to Sydney and intermediate Stations

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 5 February 1927 · page 3

Excursion Tickets at Single Fare for Double Journey (minimum rates 8/9 Firsst-class and 5/10 Second-class) will be issued at Hay to Sydney and…

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Suspected Stolen Car Motor Driver Fined

The Independent · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 2

Before Messrs G. F. C. Griffin and F. C. Coogan, Js. P., on Friday morning last, James Albert Ernest Watkins (18) was charged with driving a motor…

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Moon’s Siding Is Argooin Railway

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 4

The following circular was been issued by the Narrandera Moons Siding to Argoon Railway Leargue “As you are no doubt a were the…

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Man Decapitated by Train

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 2

Shortly after the departure of the Temora Mail from Bowral on Monday night, the decapitated body of a young single mas, Peter Psaitis was…

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Proposed Railway

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 10 February 1927 · page 3

At a public meeting at Narandera on Friday last it was carried that this meeting supports the request for the construction of a line from…

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Motoring Record

The Independent · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 4

Captain Malcolm Campbell, in his 450 h.p. Napier-Campbell car, the "Bluebird." broke the world's record on Pendine Sands (Carmathenshire)…

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Riverina Railways. Rand-coreen Extension. Public Works Committee to Investigate

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 February 1927 · page 5

The Public Works Committed have under consideration the expediency of constructing a line of railway from Rand towards Coreen, a distance of…

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Railway Guard Killed

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 2

Harry Corke, a railway guard, was killed this morning between Hornsby and Thornleigh, Sydney, while in his van which was damaged through…

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Motorist Incinerated When Car Burns

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 4

Edward Heneyfield, aged 52 years, farmer, met a shocking death while driving his motor car at Te Awamutu (New Zealand) Another motorist…

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Sheep Transport by Motor an Interesting Queensland Experiment

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 4

Details of an interesting experiment in the transport of sheep appear in the Queensland Agricultural Journal. The journal describes how Mr. W. A…

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Motor Notes Electrical Troubles

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 3

The fact that the modern car is reliability itself where the lighting system is concerned, should not Induce you to neglect being prepared to deal…

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Sheep Transport by Motor. An Interesting Queensland Experiment

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 12 February 1927 · page 3

Details of an interesting, experiment in the transport of sheep appear in the "Queensland Agricultural Journal." The journal describes how Mr. W. A…

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Yarrawonga-oaklands Railway

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 February 1927 · page 5

After the general business of the Mulwala Progress Association had been disposed of on Saturday evening, the matter of the Yarrawonga to…

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Motor Accident a Stolen Suitcase

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 February 1927 · page 4

While being driven at a speed of thirty miles an rour, a Chevrolet car crashed into a tree on the [?] Deniliquin road last week Two…

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