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New England · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1893

93 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 5

The Inverell Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 November 1893 · page 2

THE Inverell papers announce that a meeting of citizens to urge upon the Government the necessity of constructing the railway from Glen Inees to Inverell was held fn the Oxford…

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Desperate Attack on a Train

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1893 · page 7

THE New Orleans limited express from Chicago was stopped by robbers on the Illinois Central Railway, near Centralia, on the 21st ult. The train had just left…

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Railway Accident

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 November 1893 · page 3

A railway accident occurred on Saturday near Bundanoon, an engine and two goods carriages leaving the line. No person was injured…

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Terrible Railway Disaster. London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 December 1893 · page 4

A disastrous railway accident has occurred at Linito, near Milan, Italy. An express train collided with a goods train, and the former was completely wrecked. The debris…

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The Train Outrage

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1893 · page 3

The Chinaman, Ah Choy, the victim of the recent mail train outrage, died this morning from injuries received through jumping out of a train. The three men under arrest will…

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The Railway Robbery

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 December 1893 · page 3

Ah Choy, who was assaulted and robbed in a railway carriage near Orange, is still unconscious…

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The Inverell Railway. Before the Assembly. the Line Agreed to by a Large Majority. Sydney, Wednesday, 8 p.m

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1893 · page 6

The Assembly has been since five this afternoon debating Mr. Lyne's motion that the railway Glen Innes to lnverell be tarried out, subject to the application of the…

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Collapse of a Bridge

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 3

An iron bridge, connecting Louisville, Kentucky, with Jefferson, collapsed, and 50 ford men who were on the bridge at the time were precipitated 100 feet into the river below and…

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Opening of the Forbes Railway

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 December 1893 · page 3

The Forbes line of Railway was declared open to-day by the Governor. Great enthusiasm prevailed. Just before the Governor's train arrived at…

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The Poultry Road to Wealth

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 8

MANY well-meaning people are speculating on the chances for success in poultry farming. The poultry journals are filled with rose-colored views that are decidedly encouraging to those…

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Correspondence. the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Harper, Chief Goods Superintendent N. S. W. RAILWAYS. To the Editors of the Armidale Express

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 4

DEAR SIRS,—Surely Mr. Harper must have been joking with the President of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce when he stated that the goods rates were by rail…

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The Traveller. Our Ocean Railways

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1893 · page 5

If we consider the distances run, the speed attained, the regularity of the canning, and other [?]cints of comparison, our great ocean railways are marvellous…

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Dickens's Railway Accident

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 29 December 1893 · page 3

THE new number of the LADIES' HOME JOURNAL contains the concluding article in the series of recollections of her father which Miss Mamie Dickens has…

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