The Railway Bridge
We are informed that the railway bridge over the Murrumbidgee will shortly be repainted. A short time ago, advantage heing taken of the low state of the river,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1901
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Attack on an Armoured Train
An armoured train, on board of which was Major General W. Knox, waa damaged by an explosion of a dynamite mine prepared by the Boers south of Vredefort road station…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Train Derailed. General Knox on Board. London, May 30
An armoured train was recently derailed by the explosion of n dynamite mine south of Vredfort-road, in the Orange River Colony. An officer and a sergeant were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Telegraphic. New South Wales Boy Killed by a Train. Sydney
A fatal tram accident occurred this afternoon, a boy named F. Guise aged fourteen being killed. It oppears that the lad who had been playing with a man on the footpath…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New South Wales. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday. Tram Fatality
A school boy named Walter Guise attempted to cross in front of a motor train in Paddington to-day, and was knocked down and killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Railway Viaduct
The substitution of steel work for the railway viaduct known as No. 5, extending from the Tarcutta Road to the bridge over the Murrumbidgee, was completed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Motor Racing. Fifty Miles Per Hour
An interesting motor race took place yesterday in France, from Paris to Bordeaux. The winner travelled 345 miles in 8 hours 4min.. making an average speed between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CHURCH v. BRIDGE
A telegraphic message to the "Daily Express" from New York (April 18) says that a conference at clergymen to consider society gambling was held in the parlours…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways. Melbouune
The estimated deficit on the railways this year is £178,000; for the year 1897-8 the deficit was over £374,000, and for the following years nearly £295,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Road Works
Mr. Harley D. Cox, District Road Superintendent for Wagga, yesterday opened tenders for contract No. 56, Bryon's Corner to Wagga-Narandera Road. Four tenders were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Rates
The work of unifying interstate railway rates does not the "Argus" says progress space. Last year a special conference of the traffic managers of the South Australian and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Ganmain Road
Some time ago the member for the district wrote to the Roads Department anent the cruet state of the Coolamon Ganmain road on the south side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Rolling Stock
The Railway Commissioners with a view to pushing on tho construction of rolling stock for next season, have lot two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Metal
Mr. O'Sullivan, the state Minister for Works, states that there is no money available for road metal ti1 July…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Rolling Stock
The Railway Commissioners have for some time past been pressing on the matter of providing additional goods waggons for use on the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Telegrams. Sydney, the Hillston Railway. Sydney
The public Works Committee met on Saturday and finally considered their report to the Assembly on the proposed railway from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unifying Railway Rates
The work of unifying interstate railway rates does not progress space (says the "Argus"). Last year a special conference of traffic managers of the South Australian and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Culcairn-germanton Railway
The tender of Meters. C. Hardy and Co., Wagga, has been accepted for the supply of 2000 sleepers for the Culcairn-Gremanton railway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Railway Viaduct. Completion of the Replacements. an Extensive Work
After a period of close upon five years, the replacement of the old wooden railway viaduct, extending, with here and there an embankment, from the Wagga station nearly…
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