An Improbable Story Tramp's Fairy Tale
On Thursday morning, while tickets were being checked on the Mudgee Mail, at Mount Victoria, Henry Collins and Henry Raymond…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Blue Mountains · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1928
208 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 5 of 11
Re-naming Roads in the Eastend
In December of last year it was advised by the then Valuer of the Shire Council, Mr. Edwin Sulter, that owing to the deviation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pearce's Mountain Road Raised by Wollondilly
The Wollondilly Shire Council has again approached the Blue Mountains Shire, in connection with Pearce's mountain deviation. After…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Megalong Road Shire's Sidestep "Will Your Take the Baby?"
In answer to the Shire's request for a concrete proposal from Blackheath Council in relation to the megalong Road situation, the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bathurst Road Council Resolves to Proceed With Improved Lighting Scheme
For some time past, there has been a subdued, but none the less pronounced, demand for improved lighting facilities on the Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flutter in Electrical Dove-cote Rumored Breakaway Blackheath Nibbling at Offer from Railways Decision To-night
As the result of a concrete proposal submitted to Blackheath Council by the Railway Commissioners, in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Downward Path History of the Decline in Katoomba Motor Fares
In former days the charge they made For taking people to the Caves was thirty bob. Twas gladly paid, As freely as a sprat for shaves…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bogged Lorry Damages the Road Is It Black[?] Baby?
A complaint reached the shire Council, On Wednesday, that a big lorry, carrying six or seven tens of timber up out of the megalong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Fatality Skid at Spriogwood Kensingtonite Killed
Robert Norman Godbee, of McDougall Street, Kensington, was killed as the result of a motor accident on the Western Road, about 1…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Katoomba's Roads Request to Minister
Discussing the action of the Local Government Department, in having agreed to amend specifications for the construction of Leura Mall, Ald…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Megalong Road Ratepayers' Views Sought
The Shire Council, on Wednesday, received a letter from Blackheath in connection with the Megalong Road problem, conveying the information…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Road Proportion of Cost Work to Proceed
Recently Katoomba Council decided to recondition a section of the Narrow Neck Road, which is used by Katoomba Colliery's trucks, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hat Hill Road
Combined with Ald. Kersalke's notice of motion that the Works inspector prepare an estimate of the cost of scarlying and gravelling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gravelling Leap Road Ald. Kerslake's Motion Matter Deferred
Following a notice of motion by Ald. Keralake, the Works Inspector reported at Tuesday's Council meeting, that the cost of scarifying and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hints to Motorists Lubricating Magneto
Be very sparing of the oil whall lubricating the magneto, for the instrument it designed to run practically with none. If too much oil…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Motor Fatality Kandos Man Killed on Whipcord Hill
A ghaStly tragedy occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning, when a motor bicycle and side-car somesaulted near the top of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Merge Dodge and Chrysler
There has been a fusion of the Dodge and Chrysler motor companies, thus being formed the third largest company of the kind in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Notes
A story of a real knight of the road is told by Singleton (N.S.W.) motorists. The driver of a broken-down cheap car told the driver of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Oil Merger of Interest to Motorists
Interesting announcements have just been made of the merging of the Texas Corporation and the Californian Petroleum Corporation, The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Roads of Gold
The "Troustone" which Katoomba Council proposes to employ in the construction of its rounds, actually is forruginous grift, and contains…
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