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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1933

964 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 49

Harbor Bridge Again Crutches Follow Cripple's Leap

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A one-legged man who jumped from the Sydney Harbor Bridge on Saturday night almost hurtled into a police launch…

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Motorists Injured

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Four persons were injured when a motor car overturned near Terrigal when trying to avoid two cars coming in the…

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No Front Number Plate On Motor Vehicle

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 2

George Henry Brocklehurst pleaded guilty before Mr. G. S. Goldie, S.M., in the Police Court this morning to a charge of having on January 17…

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Bourke—Birdum Railway

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 2

Questioned to-day regarding the proposed Bourke—Birdum railway, Mr. Arthur Blakeley, M.H.R. for Darling, said that the syndicate which…

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Motor cycle Fatality

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday —M[?]le Davis (23), of Cargelligo, New South Wales, was killed and Rupert Catterall (30) was seriously injured when the…

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Motorist Nearly Drowned

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—George Salvage (26) narrowly escaped drowning when a sedan car which he was driving to Newcastle ran through the…

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Wage Cut For Canadian Railway Workers VANCOUVER, January 30

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 1

With the arrangements complete for amalgamating the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific Railways notice was served on 26,000…

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Windscreen Labels For Motor Cars

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 2

Constable L. Smith, officer in charge of the motor traffic department at the Central Police Station, said to-day that motor vehicle owners…

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Removing Art Treasures Chinese Fear Japan Will Take Pekin Special Train (Special to "The Miner.") PEKIN, January 31

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 1

The Chinese fear that the Japanese will eventually seize Pekin wan shown to-day when the removal by rail of 3000 cases of art…

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Union of Railwaymen Seeks Registration Talk of Conflict if Granted SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 4

Mr. L. Denford, State secretary of the Federated Ironworkers' Union, stated in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day that the granting of the…

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The Following Appeared — IN — Yesterday's Latest News Issue Oil Pipe Lines in Iraq Motor Transport Aids Project Kirkuk to Sea

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 1 February 1933 · page 4

The most stupendous automotive transportation undertaking the world has known is now well started in the Syrian Desert, where two oil pipe…

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Notes and Comments "Nobody's Road".—

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 2

Only a hundred years ago a piece of road in the London metropolitan area seems, from the report reprinted in a recent issue of the "Times" and…

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Readers' Column "Nobody's Road" in London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 2

From a letter to the Editor of the "Times" dated 100 years ago, and reprinted on December 22 last:— You have inserted in your paper…

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Cross-channel Ferries England To Turkey By Train

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 4

In the summer of 1934 it will be possible for travellers to enter a railway compartment in London and reach Constantinople without…

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Extermination of Rabbits Railway Dept. To Co-operate SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 February 1933 · page 1

Lieutenant-Colonel Bruxner, Minister for Transport, announced last nicht that the Railways Department will co-operate…

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Railway Man Attacked Fires Revolver Shot At Assailant Three Arrests Seymour

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 February 1933 · page 3

Soon after 7 p.m. yesterday a fight occurred between two trespassers. In Seymour railway goods yard and a railway patrol officer…

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Big Train From Adelaide To-day

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 2

Holidaymakers returning from South Australia packed the express from Adelaide this morning. It was one of the largest trains from…

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Special Train From Sydney To-morrow

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 3

A special train will arrive in Broken Hill from Sydney to-morrow morning at 8.30 a.m. local time and will bring in school teachers,…

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Big Train From Adelaide To-day

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 2

Holidaymakers returning from South Australia packed the express from Adelaide this morning. It was one of the largest trains from…

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Special Train From Sydney To-morrow

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1933 · page 3

A special train will arrive in Broken Hill from Sydney to-morrow morning at 8.30 a.m. local time and will bring in school teachers,…

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