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Railways, roads & transport, 1897

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Proposed Railway Extension. Coolamon to Ariah. Sectional Committee's Report

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 2 November 1897 · page 3

Last week we published a condensed report of the Sectional Committee of the Public Works Committee, which body a fortnight since took evidence as to the…

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The Rock-Lockhart Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1897 · page 2

THE Public Works Committee on Friday again considered the proposed railway from The Rock to Lookhart. Mr. W. H. Cherry, of the Government Statistician's…

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Albury. Monday. Robbery at a Railway Station, a Safe Carried Away

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1897 · page 2

The police received information to-day that the safe at the railway station at Bethanga, (Vic.) was carried away last night. It contained £84. No trace of it…

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Temora-Wyalong Railway

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 November 1897 · page 6

THE secretary of the Temora Railway League has handed the local press the following letter for publication, which he received in reply to his communication re the…

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Road Votes

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1897 · page 2

THROUGH the courtesy of Mr. J. F. Barnes, M.P., we are able to furnish our readers with so ne items copied from the Estimates of the Works Department, which will be of interest to those…

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The Rock-Lockhart Railway. the Line Recommended

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1897 · page 2

As was anticipated, the Public Worke Committee have decided to report to Parliament in favor of the construction of a railway from The Rock to Lockhart (Green's…

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Fall from a Suspension Bridge

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1897 · page 2

A RATHER severe accident happened to a boy named Harold Rolf, 9 years of age on Saturday last, at that triumph of engineering architecture the suspension bridge at the end of…

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The Railway Trouble. London, 4Th December

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 7 December 1897 · page 4

The Railway Workers' Association, finding that the leading English railway companies are united in their resistance to the demands of the late railway employees' conference at…

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The Rival Railway Gone Under. the Temora Extension Almost Assured

The Cootamundra Liberal · Saturday 11 December 1897 · page 3

We wore pleased to learn on Wednesday that the proposal to construct a line of railway from Coolamon to Ariah had been unfavorably reported upon by the…

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Mortality of Stock by Railway

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1897 · page 5
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

SEVERAL comments have recently appeared as to the mortality of sheep carried by rail. Reference has been particularly directed to some consignments carried on the Northern…

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State-owned Railways

The Worker · Saturday 18 December 1897 · page 6

The Argentine Republic owns 620 miles of railway. In Australia five-sixths of the railways are the property of the colonial…

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Railways v. Cycles

Cootamundra Herald · Saturday 25 December 1897 · page 6

WOULD railways have developed, as they have, if present day cycles had been invented first? This is a question that anyone might put; but its pros and cons…

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