Current Topics Train Services
That urgent representation be made to the Railway Department to have the 630 p.m. train from Sydney on Saturdays stop at Wentworth Falls as…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
21 stories in Blue Mountains's papers · page 1 of 2
Motor Cyclist Killed
The Christmas holidays on the Blue Mountains were marred by a road fatality at Wentworth Falls on Friday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Traffic Disappears
One of the most noticeable features of the Christmas and New Year holidays was the tremendous decline in road traffic. Compared with happier…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Excursion Fares For Railway Travel
The Acting-Secretary for Railways sends word that no special trains will be run to provide the usual monthly excursion service for January, but on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycle Afire
A motor cycle ridden by two Lithgow soldiers caught fire at Katoomba last week. The owner, Alan Jones, of Clarice Street, Lithgow, ran to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drive for Aluminium at Blackheath Object: Half Ton (One Aeroplane)
In response to the Government's urgent appeal for scrap aluminium for aeroplanes, the Committee of the Blackheath Boy Scouts is organising a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Excursion Fares for Railway Travel
It is announced that no special trains will be run to provide the usual monthly excursion service for February, but on certain days during the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway in the Lead! Queen Competition
By the narrow margin of 370 votes, Miss Ray Gyde has taken the lead from Miss Barbara Smith (Munitions) and Miss Nell Duff (Town)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Damage £500 to Repair Commonwealth Bridge
Slips on embankments, collapse of retaining walls, and road and footpath' damage resulted from the recent heavy rains, and on the motion of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Megalong Valley Road Grant Sought for Urgent Repairs
Alderman Thompson drew attention to the two bad washaways that had occurred on the Megalong Road during the recent heavy rain. This road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commonwealth Bridge Council Discusses £600 Repairs Plan Mr. H. Bursill Willing to Supervise
At last meeting of Katoomba aldermen, plans and specifications submitted by Mr. H. Bursill (acting Engineer to Blaxland Shire)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →National Emergency Services Light From Railway Engines
After the last night air-raid test at Katoomba, the railway service was the subject of several reports by Wardens, and the Chief Warden…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Headlights
The Secretary for Railways wrote to the effect that the headlights on trains (subject of comment on the Mountains) were being used with the full…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Engineer and Road Repairs
The period of three months grace allowed under the act having expired, Katoomba aldermen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Threat of Train Travel Restrictions Cause Anxiety
Restrictions placed upon holiday travel by means of the system of travel priorities now operating on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Motor World Special Petrol Ration
The N.R.M.A. has had complaints that the special patrol ration authorised for men of the fighting services on disembarkation leave in Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milkmen Complain: Horses Fall on Slippery Roads
Dobbin has again come into his kingdom in these days of petrol and rubber shortage, and problems common to the horse-drawn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Replacing Stolen Motor Tyres
In Canada the regulations governing the purchase of tyres have been modified to permit stolen tyres to be replaced, if the motorist has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Feet Cut Off by Moving Train
A shocking accident occurred at Lawson one night last week when Mrs. C. Fisher, 59, in attempting to disembark from a moving train…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Burma Road as Background of a Great Film
Screening at the Embassy on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday next is "A YANK ON THE BURMA ROAD," an unusual picture with…
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