Silverton Tramway Traffic
The management of the Silverton Tramway- Company reports that the tonnage carried over the company's lines for the week ended January 2…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
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Motoring Smashes Tourists to Blue Mountains Involved in Collision Two Killed 10 INJURED Sydney
Several visitors from Queensland and Victoria were among the victims of. a shocking tragedy on the Blue Mountains-road on Saturday. Two persons,…
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Captain Hugh Grosvenor (A.D.C. to the Governor of South Australia), on the right, and Mr. Edward Tiarks, a member of an old English family, who is on a visit to Australia and is staying at Government House, Adelaide. They thoroughly enjoyed their journey by air to Sydney and back…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway to Sydney an Additional Train to Reach Here on February 2
The Railway Department announces that the additional train which was to leave Sydney at 8 a.m. for Broken Hill on Friday. January 25, has been…
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As the Townsville mail train was travelling at a high speed between Isis Junction and Bundaberg at midnight on Monday, a passenger, Cecil…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Smash in England One Killed; 15 INJURED (Special to "The Miner.") London, January 8
A number of coaches of the L.M.S. Company's north-bound Bristol-Nottingham mail train, overturned, in a collision with a goods train at Ashchurch,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Youth Severely Injured in Motoring Collisiojs Sydney
James Paterson (18) suffered shocking injuries last night as the result of a collision between a motor cycle he was riding and a motor car at…
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According to figures compiled by the National Roads and Motoring Association, there were at the end of last year 229.219 registered motor vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Endurance Fiying Question Mark Comes Down Because of Dead Motor (Special to "The Miner.") Vancouver, January 7
The aeroplane Question Mark was forced down by a dead left motor at 2.12 o'clock on Monday afternoon. It had been in the air for 150 hours 46…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Lorry Fire Members of Fire Brigade Injured and Drenched Sydney
An extraordinary series of accidents attended the endeavors of the firemen to extinguish a burning lorry loaded with timber near Fig Tree Bridge…
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Mr. Robert Thompson, of Quorn, to-day met members of the Country Traders' Association and Chamber of Commerce and discussed with them…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New South Wales Unattended Motor Lorty Runs Down Sydney Street Sydney
The brakes on an unattended motor lorry gave way in Hunter-street to-day and the vehicle careered down Steep-street and mounting a footpath…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Uniform Railways Discussion at Canberra by Premiers' Conference Canberra
One of the most important matters to be dealt with by the Premiers' Conference. which began its sessions in Canberra to-day, will be that of a…
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From "Mail":— A special train is scheduled to arrive here from Sydney on February 2, carrying all classes of passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Car Overturns on Adelaide Road Occupants Injured Adelaide
A motor car driven by Mr. Matthew Thompson, of The Grove. Dulwich, skidded and overturned on Anzac Highway last night, and the driver and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Elephant Charges Train Attendant Is Injured Launceston
An elephant belonging to Wirth Bros.' circus charged headlong into a moving train at the crossing at Campbell Town to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Is Found Dead in a Sydney Train Sydney
The heat is believed to have caused the death of George Wilson Irving (55), of Arncliffe, whose body was found in a train between Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paradise for Pedestrians Heavy Penalties Provided for Offending Motoritss (Special to "The Miner.") Madrid, January 9
By a stroke of the pen General Prime de Rivera, the Prime Minister, has made Spain a paradise for pedestrians. A new decree enforces the law…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dangerous Driving Motorist Disqualified for Period of Five Years Melbourne
A severe penalty was imposed to-day by Mr. M'Namara, P.M., on Edwin Vere Proctor, who was fined £10, had his licence cancelled, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rail Motor Car Is Derailed on the Geelong Line Six Passengers Injured Melbourne
A large rail motor from Geelong, while travelling rapidly on the Geelong line about 13 miles from Melbourne, was derailed There were 17 passengerss…
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