Right of Road Contractors
Some trouble has arisen at Quirindi in connection with material required by contractors for use on the Shire roads, landholders having prevented…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1908
547 stories in New England's papers · page 6 of 28
Murrurundi Railway Smash. Sydney
IT has now been ascertained that 33 persons all told have been injured, more or less seriously, as a result of the sensational railway smash at…
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WHAT can be reckoned on as perhaps the most serious collision that has occurred on the Great Northern Railway Line took place in the small…
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A LARGE number of passengers who were in the smash, arrived in Sydney about 1.30 on Friday afternoon. None of them, however, bore signs of serious injury, inasmuch as…
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FIFTEEN thousand people killed and wounded, property to the value of £20,000,000 burned or otherwise destroyed, and an empire shaken to its…
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A terrible railway collision has occurred at Braybrook Junction (Vic.), near Melbourne. The Bendigo express crashed into…
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Another [?]sion took place at Morrorundi, on the northern railway, 219 miles from Sydney, on Friday morning, and its results were more…
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Easter festivities have been to some extent dashed by the terrible railway accident at Murrurnndi. Thirty-three persons injured, eight of them…
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The "Daily News" of 7th February states that nearly a dozen of the principal residents of Norbury waited several hours on the previous day,…
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The adjourned inquiry into the recent railway accident in which a man was cut to pieces near Dumaresq, took place at Armidale last Thursday…
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On Monday last the most disastrous railway accident recorded in Australasia, occurred at Braybrook Junction about seven miles from Melbourne…
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On Good Friday morning about 4 o'clock there was a sensational smash at the Murrurndi railway station…
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At last Ma[?]land yesterday the Brisbane mail train, which should regularly stop at the station, dashed through, leaving passengers and mails on the platform…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to the Editor. We do not necessarily [?] Correspondents remarks. Blair Bill-mount Mitchell Road
SIR,—I would like to draw the attention of the Shire Council, through your columns, to the lad state of the road from Glen Innes, via Blair Hill to Mount Mitchall. On Wednesday. I saw a…
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The mail train which left Sydney for Glen Innes at 7.34 last night came into collision, at half-past 2 o'clock this morning at Murrurundi, with the second…
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THE Brisbane mail train, which should regularly stop at East Martland, dashed through yesterday, leaving passengers and mails on the station…
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Over 40 persons killed in Victoria. Yesterday was quite a field day at the Land Court. "The Little Bread Winner" next…
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WHAT may be regarded as the most serious railway accident that has yet taken place on the Great Northern line eventuated last Friday morning near the Murrurundi…
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MR. F. J. THOMAS, M.L.A., has been advised, in reply to his suggestion, contained in a letter to the Department urging the construction of a railway from Glen innes…
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PASSENGERS ROASTED IN THE BURRING WRECKAGE. ON Tuesday morning we ware [?]fied by special wire from our Sydney representative that 42 people were killed in a railway collision at Braybrook…
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