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Riverina · Railways, roads & transport
132 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 7
No other branch of the Government service possesses greater interest for the public than that controlling the carrying trade of the colony. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have just learned that Cootamundra and Tumut have got each a Read Superintendent, and of course the thanks of the people of those respective towns should be gratefully given to Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A MARVELLOUS escape from meeting with unstantaneous death by falling from a travelling train was experienced on Friday after-noon by a lad named Herbert Moore, four…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR,—I have just learned that Cootamundra and Tumut have got each a road superintendent, and, of course, the thanks of the people of those respective towns should be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →JAMES George Few[?]ter, aged 41, was killed at Middle Park Station, Melbourne, on Friday. He was there with a friend awaiting the train for Melbourne. His friend crossed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN extraordinary tragedy took place lately at Salina village, B[?]lder County. A railway freight conductor of the local line, named John Sullivan, was engaged in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT different times during the last two years the Minister for Works has bad placed before him a number of proposed railway extensions in the Riverina district. A fow months ago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the arrival of the 10.40 p.m. train from Brighton Beach at Princes-bridge station on Monday (the Age says), the driver reported that his train had run over something…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A ROUGH-and-ready kind of railroad is in use at Cumberland county, Nova Scotia, for the purpose of carrying timber from the woods to the river. The raile are made of spruce poles…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CONSEQUENT upou the late strike io New South Wales, a considerable number of extra bands were (the Echo says) engaged to work in the Evoleigh sheds, their duty being to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MESSRS. Easton and Anderson, of London, recently shipped the hydraulic lifts and ma[?]hinery for the Chigne[?]to Ship Railway, which is to carry ships 2000 tons across…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A RAILWAY accident, fortunately unattended with any serious consequences, occurred at Culcairn, at 12:30 on Thursday night. It appears that the paper train which should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SERIOUS accident occurred at 1.15 yesterday at the Culcairn railway station. It appears that the express to Sydney had received the usual signal that the line was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Albury report says:—Mr.K.Cummings, of Darlington Point, who was one of the passengers in the Hay train when the collision ocourred with the Sydney express at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR, Gormly, M.L.A., has forwarded as the fallowing letter for publication:— Public Works Department, Sydney, 12th May, 1[?]91…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN extraordinary accident has been reported as having occurred about 1 o'clock on Saturday morning on the railway line near the Barwood station. Ono of the porters upon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Railway department has made full inquiry into the circumstances attending the collision between the Sydney express and the mixed train from Hay to Albury, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ABOUT 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning a man was found in a dying oondition on the Beaumaris tram-rails. A car with a horse attaohed was standing near. It appears that a special…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IN an amusing article on tramps and their ways, contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine by " Peregrinus," we find the following account of some of their shifts to make a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A REPORT by Mr. Stanley Alexander, Examiner of Public Works proposals, on the proposed lines of railway in Riverina has been laid on the table of the Legislative…
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