Value of Road Scrapings
A CORRESPONDE[?] of Th[?] Farmer, referring to the [?]cacy of road scrapings in re[?]ing [?]s, — To tho[?] who may have the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1869
8 stories in South Coast's papers
Subordinate Roads of New South Wales
The amount per mile proposed to be expended on each class of toads is as under :— 1st class, £50 per mile' 2nd class, £25 per mile; 3rd class, 15 per mile; 4th class,…
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THE accident to a goods train on the Brighton Railway on Sunday morning, calls up to recollection the frightful calamity at Abergele. It is impossible to say that…
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ON the night of the 22nd ult. the eastern bound train of the Sioux City Railroads was thrown off by a broken rail near Farley, and the rear car, containing about 30…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opening of the Great Southern Railway to Goulburn
THE demonstration in celebration of the official opening of the extension of the Great Southern Railway to Goulburn came off on [?]day week, under the auspices of an…
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A LONG trial was brought to a close at the Leeds Assizes, in which John Trumble. paper-hanging manufacturer, of Leeds, sued the Midland Railway Company for…
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THE strength of numbers was strikingly exampled a few weeks ago, in the stoppage of a train by a swarm of caterpillars. It was in America, on the Orleans line, one part of…
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—A fatal accident took place at Moat-lane, the junction of the Llanidloes branch with the main Cambrian line. Thomas Hunt, the deceased, was the temporary guard of…
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