Pure Wool's Close Call At Murray Bridge Princess Titina's Double
Pure Wool, a sister of that good sprinter, Woolcombe, won her seventh race (six in the country) when she narrowly defeated Lord Rampion in the Pellew…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
771 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 39
"Pleasures" Of Motoring
THESE PICTURES taken last Saturday show how members of a motoring party of 15 cars were able to cross the flooded Mi[?]gary Cr[?]k when returning from Adelaide. The top picture shows one of the cars being pulled across the [?] a Highways Department tractor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miles of Water Along Sydney Railway
Floodwaters have caused considerable damage in the district surrounding Orange, where it is reported that five inches of rain fell in six days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Munitions Train Explodes
BUDAPEST, January. 8.—A terrific explosion occurred when a German munitions train collided with another main-line train. The number of…
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IN COMPARISON WITH THE COUNTRY BETWEEN Bardia and Sidi Barrani, the portion of Libya between Tobruk and Benghazi, the capital of Cirenaica, is covered by a network of [?] [?] and tracks, especially in the districts near the coast. Tthe aerodrome at El Aden, 15 miles south of Tobru[?] is now in British hands, while Derna and Martruba, two other aerodromes farther west, were heavily bo[?] on Monday night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Horse Races Train— and Wins
Passengers in a train from Brechin for Forfar recently saw a race between a horse and a locomotive, says the London "Daily Mirror."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tremendous Damage in State Many Fatal Tragedies Communications Cut Through; Collapse of Bridge Sydney, January 8
North-western and northern ports of New South Wales have been cut off from railway communication with Sydney as a result of a large three-span bridge collapsing on the main northern line between Braefield and Quirindi. The worst…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fire Damages Car on Mt. Gipps Road
Moving away from its owner after it had been stopped to [?]able a mechanical adjustment to be made, a touring car fell over an embankment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Modern Motoring Aircraft Trailer Australian Production Wins World-wide Recognition
WHEN the Lockheed Hudson Bombers were due to arrive in Australia some [?] had to be devised for the transport from the ship's side to the Aircraft Depots…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fight for Tobruk Important Aerodrome Captured Base Is Virtually Surrounded LONDON, January 9
The Gaziala aerodrome, 30 miles west of the important naval base at Tobruk, has been captured states a British general headquarters communique from Cairo. In the raids before the British forces occupied the aerodrome the R.A.F…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Barrier Miner Saturday, January ll, 1941 the Adelaide Road
MOTORISTS are unanimous in then condemnation of the Broken Hill-Cockburn section of the Adelaide Road, whose appalling condition has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →B.H.-Cockburn Road Worst in Australia Says Mr. Tompkins
DESCRIBING the section of the Adelaide Road between Broken Hill and Cockburn as the worst highway in the Commonwealth, Mr. C. B. Tompkins, secretary of the Fighting Forces Comforts Fund, strongly attacked the Main Roads Department thin week. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tramway Hall
Another programme of dancing will be presented at the Tramway Hall to-night. Ray Mills Orchestra will play all latest tunes including latest war…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Talk On Unification Of Railways
MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The cost of a unified railway track from Brisbane to Perth, by way of Broken Hill, is to be investigated by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Road Work Plans
As soon as the work of the elevating grader on the Wilcannia road was completed it would be transferred to the Wentworth road, the District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Low Level in Road Accidents (Issued by the Rood Safety Council of Now South Wales)
There were fewer fatal road accidents in New South Wales during the month of December than there were for the Christmas-New Year holidays of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COAL Railways Huge Consumption
The New South Wales Railways spend annually on materials about. £6,000,000 Approximately 90 per cent, of this amount is spent locally on such items as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Bookings on Sydney Train
Commencing in November the monthly excursion trains to Sydney have proved popular. Tomorrow's excursion train is no exception. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Guard Hurt When Train Hits Tree
PERTH, Wednesday,—A tragedy was narrowly averted when a mill locomotive crashed into a fallen tree when travelling in thick forest at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Town Busy Bee
The Railway Town Progress Association busy bee will be at work on Saturday afternoon when workers will commence removing tree guards from trees…
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