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Railways, roads & transport, 1892

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Intercolonial Railway Travel

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1892 · page 2

THE suggestion was made in the leading columns of the Argus a few days ago that the irritation practice of examining travellers luggage at the borders of New South Wales…

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The Proposed Train Alterations

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1892 · page 2

THE abandonment of the proposed train alterations in this colony without notification to the public is thus referred to by the Melbourne Age:— It appears that the New…

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A Terrible Death. Cut to Pieces by a Railway Train. Geelong

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 9 January 1892 · page 2

A FATAL railway accident occurred here to-night. When the last train from Port Fairy, due at Geelong at 9 o'clock, was steaming through the t[?]nel close to the Geelong…

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Accident on the Tramway Line Near Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 12 January 1892 · page 4

An accident of a rather serious nature occurred on the Beaumaris (near Melbourne) tramway on Friday about midday between Sandringham…

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Railway Rates f nd Agricultural Produce

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1892 · page 4

The question of the cost of railway freightage for the conveyance of fruit, grain, and other produce from the interior to Sydney has become of first—rate importance to the prosperity of the…

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Railway Accident at Darling Harbour. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 January 1892 · page 3

A railway accident occurred about 1 a.m. to-day as Darling Harbour. A cattle train, consisting of an engine and 42 tracks filled with cattle, failed to answer the brakes, and…

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Fatal Railway Accident at Yanko

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 23 January 1892 · page 4

A railway accident which reunited fatally occurred to a young man of 22 years of age on Tuesday at the Yanko Siding, between Narandera and Whitton. On the arrival of…

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Railways and Tramways. the Quarterly Report

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 2

THE quarterly report of the Railway Commissioners for the period ended September 30 last was laid on the table of the Assembly on Thursday night. The figures show that…

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Railway Collision at Yerong. (From Our Correspondent.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 2

A RAILWAY collision occured here on Saturday night last, when the mixed goods train proceeding from Wagga ran into a special goods train which was just completing some…

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Railway Rates for Agricultural Produce

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1892 · page 4

ANSWERING a question in the Assembly on Tuesday, the Colonial Treasurer said the question of rates for the carriage of agricultural produce was one which had received…

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Shocking' Suicide of a Girl. Mangled by a Railway Engine

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1892 · page 2

THE driver of the 5 o'clock up train from North Brighton on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning saw the dona body of a young woman lying alongside the railway…

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Proposed Railway Line, [?]Erilderie to Deniliquin. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 6 February 1892 · page 5

A deputation representing the Jerilderie district waited upon Mr. Lyne, Minister for Works, this morning. Mr. Chanter said there were 22,000 bags of wheat produced in…

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Railway Line from Jerilderie to Deneliquin

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1892 · page 4

THE Minister of Works was waited upon on Friday by a deputation, including Messrs. Chanter, Barbour and Stevenson, M's.L.A., who urged the necessity for the immediate…

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A Railway Official Arrested for Embezzlement. Albury

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 11 February 1892 · page 3

THIS evening a young man, named Edward Pocock, chief clerk at the Albury railway goods sheds, was arrested on a specific charge of appropriating £18 12s 10d. the money of…

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Shocking Discovery on a Railway. a Young Woman Cut to Pieces

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1892 · page 4

GEORGE Ferguson, the driver of the 12.1 train from Spencer-street, on Wednesday morning (the Agesays) reported to the station master on arrival at North Melbourne that he had felt…

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Proposed Railway From Wagga to Tumbarumba

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 February 1892 · page 3

In the Assembly on Wednesday Mr. Gormly asked the Secretary for Public Works,—Has the report of the examiners on the proposed railway line from Wagga…

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Sad Railway Fatality. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 13 February 1892 · page 4

A sad accident occurred earLy last evening at the Arncliffe railway station by which Mrs. Emma Annie Tydeman, of Booth-street, Arncliffe, lost her life. It seems that…

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Alleged Defalcation by a Railway Clerk

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 13 February 1892 · page 3

Edward Pucock, chief clerk in hte Railway goods shed at Albury was [?] Tuesday evening on a [?] him with stealing £18.1210, the property…

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Country Roads

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 February 1892 · page 2

MR. BARES, has at length shock off the character of "silent member," and made his voice heard on Wednesday, about the expenditure of the special vote for repairing rods in the country. Hansard…

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Collision between a Train and a Coach

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 18 February 1892 · page 4

A NARROW escape from a serious accident occurred on the Curdie's River railway line on Friday morning at a point known as Smith's crossing. The line is about…

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