About Our Main Roads
Sir, As a motorist whose bus[?] takes him all over the roads of [?] South Wales, I have no hesitation saying that taken by and large [?]…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1924
195 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 7 of 10
Off the Line Goods Train Derailed Railwaymen's Smart Work
A serious derailment occurred to a coal-laden train which passed' through Katoomba at 8.45 last night. After undergoing the usual…
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As a result of the serious accident which recently befel Miss Medcalf daughter of Cr. Medcalf, by being hit by a passing motor car, President…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great Western Road Engineer Disappointed Shire President Hopeful
The B.M.S. Council, at Wednesday's meeting, discussed the question of the Great Western Road: the Press being requested to withhold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Train Smash Goods Train Derailed Nine Trucks Off Five Badly Damaged Prompt Clearance
Number ninety eight goods train from Eskbank to Parramatta came to grief on Thursday night between Katoomba and Leura just at the foot…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Bike Accident Wheel of Sidecar Collapses and Occupants Are Thrown on Road One Seriously Injured
As a result of a motor bike accident, which occurred during the forenoon yesterday on the Main Western Road between Wentworth Falls and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Empire Theatre Parachute Feat Lands "Lone Wolf" on Aeroplane Jack Holt Performs Seemingly Impossible Stunt in Big Film
Imagine a high-powered aeroplane shooting through space and another last- moving air machine just below and then picture a man dropping…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Smash at Lawson Two Cars Collide and Narrowly Escape a Drop of 500 Feet Occupants Injured
By the smallest of margins, two motor cars escaped a drop of three hundred feet over a cliff, after colliding at a dangerous bend in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Notes and Comments Motor Hogs
Police Magistrate Helm did not hesitate long in inflicting fines ranging from £2 to £5 at the Katoomba Police Court yesterday in a number of cases where persons were charged with having driven motor cars at a speed dangerous to the public. In one case a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycle Accident Good Townsman Injured
About 8 o'clock this morning, our respected townsman, Mr. John G. House, of the firm of House Bros., Katoomba and Blackheath, had a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extraordinary Find Motorist Finds Yellow Sapphire Embedded in Motor Tyre What Does It Mean?
While overhauling his Ford car on Saturday morning, Mr. S. Foote, of Webb's, next the post office, discovered something which resembled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leura Bridge Council Accepts Responsibility for Maintenance of Footway
At a meeting of the Council on Tuesday, a letter was read from the Railway Commissioners respecting the footway, giving access from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Main Road Heart-breaking Problem Must Be Concrete
How utterly impossible it is to keep the Blue Mountains section of the Great Western Road in reasonable order by the patching up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Accidents
On Wednesday last, John L. Drinnan, of Horsley Street, Revesby, was driving a motor lorry, laden with work from Mudgee to Sydney, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trespass Young Man Under Influence of Drink Wanders on Railway Line Fine of £2
Charged with having trespassed on railway property, Walter Allen, a young man, was brought before the Katoomba Police Court on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shire Road Work Ministers Tribute
The following letter was received from the Minister for Mines and Local Government by Shire President P. Wilson, and road at Wednesday's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shire Main Road "Up Against Money Difficulty" Engineering's Report
Shire Engineer swindlehurst at last meeting submitted the following report on the Main Road:— "Since last meeting I have been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stops the Train! a Commercial Traveller Brings Express to a Standstill Near Is Fined £3
A certain Minister of the Gospel, happening to see one of his flock in a slightly inebriated condition sitting half asleep in a stationary train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Hold-up Man Who Looked for Trouble
Wallop Allen pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing on the railway line at Blackheath on September 21. Inspector H. E. Morris said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →He Woke Up And Pressed the Button a Railway Incident
"I cannot understand how a commercial traveller, with all his experience of the railway service, came to make the railway service, came to make the mistake of boarding the…
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