News In Brief S.T. Tramway Traffic
The following shows the tonnage carried over the. Silverton Tramway Company's lines for the week: ending February 20, the tonnage for the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1935
834 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 42
New Railways Advocated One Across North Australia Alice Springs Resident
The building of.two railway lines, one from Birdun to Alice Springs, and the other from Derby, W.A., to Cloncurry, W.A., which would open…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leg Broken in Fall From Motor Cycle
While riding a motor cycle near the South mine change house to-day W. Rowe fell from the bicycle and fractured his leg. He was taken in the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An attempt was made last night to derail a tram between Adamstown and Kotara, in the Newcastle district. The engine…
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Chatting and laughing happily, 850 miners were seated in a four-coach train in Little Valley, near Powellton, amid the mountains of West Virginia,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Jumps From Train Suffering Head Injuries Port Augusta
While the East-West express was thundering along near Haig, 71 miles from Port Augusta, early, on Monday an elderly woman is alleged to have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Registry Office for Motor Vehicles to Open at Tibooburra
A district registry office for motor vehicles is to be established at Tibooburra following recommendations from the local police…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Speaking at a farewell function in honor of Mr. T. J. Hartigan, Railway Commissioner, on the eve of his departure…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Bus Crashes and Injures Passengers
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A. motor bus got out of control near Kiama to-day, bolted backwards, down Pike's Hill tore through a fence guarding a 20ft…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Life Railway Pass for Mr. Parkhill
CANBERRA, Wednesday. — With the completion of three years of office this month, the Minister for Defence (Mr. Parkhill) has now become…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two People Killed Motor Car Hits Train ADELADE
No inquest will be held into the double fatality at the railway crossing at Kirkcaldy-road, last evening in which John Arthur Kearns (32), and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trams Collide in Sydney One Passenger Killed And Six Injured SYDNEY
A master at the Fort-street High School was killed and six people injured this morning when two trams collided in Parramatta-road, near the Sydney University, at the height of the peak hour traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Ship's Ill-fortune Half Cargo And Stowaways DARWIN
The motor ship Rabaul, which left for London, via Dakar, in Africa, and Marseilles, had continued had luck at Darwin. She had to wait at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramp Steals Locomotive; Collision Averted (Special to "The Miner.")
PARIS, February 26. — Armand Longle, an unemployed man tramping to Paris in search of work, saw an unattended locomotive standing at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Theft From Train 3 Men Arrested At Ivanhoe
Prompt action by railway officials and the police led to the apprehension1 to-day or three men, who it is alleged interfered with a quantity of goods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ald. Huckell Moves to Make Road Walkers Face Oncoming Traffic
Further efforts to make it compulsory for pedestrians to walk on the right hand side of the roads whan using them are to he made by the City…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The fencing of the Broken Hill railway line or the payment of compensation to stockowners for the loss of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hints For Car Owners "The Miner" Motoring Notes When To Pass-With Safety Tests Show Need for Care
How much distance ahead is needed for one car to overtake and pass another? Many accidenta are cauaed through bad judgment in this apparently simple manocuvre, which has been the aubjact of interesting tests to determine the margin of time and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Duty on Motor Car Panels May Be Varied
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Federal Ministry may shortly consider proposals for a variation rate of the duty, on motor car body [?]neis. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Freak Bridge Match
A freak bridge match has been played between two teams captained by Mr. Sims and Mr. Culbertson, respectively, in which it was stipulated…
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