Want Petrol Tax Reduced Motorists Pay £8,000,000 to Revenue
SYDNEY, Friday: official figures of petrol tax receipts and disposals, show motorists will provide more than £8,000,000 for consolidated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1948
1,587 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 3 of 80
New British Motorcar Production This Year
Early this year the stylish 16 h.p. Standard Vanguard will be coming of the production line at the rate of some [?] a day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Competitors Fly Here for Big Motor Trial
Two of the competitors in the motor cycle sports trial being conducted at Meadow Creek lake oval tomorrow will fly from Mudgee to take part in the event…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Will Field Strongest Team Blayney Still In Lead
Railway, Orange cricket premiers for 1946-47, will field their strongest team this season for the match against Nashdale, at the Showground today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Man Retiring
After 35 yearsâ service in the Department of Railways. Mr Wally Woods was farewelled by friends and fellow employees at a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extra Train Katoomba—lithgow Run
SYDNEY, Sunday: From tomorrow, an additional passenger train will be run each morning from Katoomba to Lithgow and return…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railways Give Good Run For Your
"If I ever meet Mr. Hartigan, I shall refrain from setting up a howl about the N.S.W. Snailways, for a traveller on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Superintendent's Tour
Following heavy rains during the past two months Mr. S. G. Harding, Superintendent of Railways at Lithgow, will begin an extensive tour of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vandals Partly Destroy Railway Safe Working System
Severe damage, which could have resulted in a serious rail accident with great loss of life, was done to railway safe working equipment by rifle fire during the week-end. On the Cullen Bullen-Portland length, vandals, using…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Crowd At Lake Motor Cycle Trial
A big crowd of locals watched the motor cycle trials at Meadow Creek track yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Batsmen on Top Howell And Floyd In Big Partnership
A. Howell (56) and H. Floyd (32), with an unbroken opening partnership of 94 runs, have placed Railway in an unbeatable position in the match against Nashdale. Both batsmen played solid cricket and gained complete…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge on Frontier Blown Up Separates Syria From Palestine
JERUSALEM, Monday.â Haganah forces are believed to have been responsible for the Mowing-up of the âBridge of Jacobâs Daughter,â over the River Jordan, on the Palestine-Syrian frontier, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Violence in Palestine River Jordan Bridge Destroyed JERUSALEM
Haganah forces are believed to have been responsible for blowing up the Bridge of Jacobs daughter," over the River Jordan on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melb. Tram Strike Parliament to Meet Melbourne, Monday
The Victorian Cabinet held a special-meeting today to consider the Melbourne tramway strike, and decided to call State Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Acts of Vandalism Damage to Railway Property
SYDNEY, Monday: Armed men are patrolling the railway line between Portland and Cullen Bullen following the discovery of serious damage to rail…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fight for a Railway
Bourke is still fighting for the continuation of the railway to Barringam on the border and on to Cannamulla Charleville and the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melb. Tram Strike Train Services Overtaxed
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Half Melbourne was late for work this morning., largely due to congestion in the Joliment railway yards…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hoppers Stop Train
TAMWORTH, Tuesday: A grasshopper plague resulted in the barraba passenger train arriving at Tamworth three hours 20 minutes late today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Will Many Roads Be Changed ?
An officer of the Department of Main Roads will visit Boree Shire next month in connection with the re-classification of roads…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Several Roads Graded In Boree Shire
Boree Shire Engineer, Mr. R. J. Mathews, reported to the January Council meeting that a number of main and trunk roads…
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