Motorist Killed
MELBOURNE. — One man was killed and four injured when a car travelling between Chatsworth and Lake Colac, in the western district,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
504 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 26
Damages Claimed Following Tram Smashes Brisbane, January 18
Seventeen writs have been issued out of the Supreme Court against the Commonwealth following tram smashes at Moorooka in September. None of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Town Bus Service (To the Editor)
Sir.—There was a great hue and cry by the city aldermen towards the end of last year about providing the residents of Railway Town and West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →17 DEAD, 5 Badly Hurt in Rail Smash Kempsey Mail Train Strikes Bus Carrying Passengers At Hawkesbury River Crossing
SYDNEY.— Seventeen people are dead and five others seriously injured as a result of a tragic level crossing smash at the Hawkesbury River today when the Kempsey mailtrain crashed into a bus carrying passengers from Kangaroo…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bus And Tram Hold-Up Hopes That It Will Be Averted Sydney, January 19
There is a possibility that the threatened 24 hours hold-up of tram and bus services in the Sydney and Newcastle areas will be averted. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Last Throw to Save Railway Manstein Back From Emergency Conference Test to Show Whether Panzers Have Any Punch Left London, January 19
General Von Manstein is back on the Eastern front from an emergency conference with Hitler and the High Command, and is preparing his lost throw to save the Odessa-Lwow railway and the Bug River line…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Threatened Tram and Bus Hold-up in Sydney Sydney, January 18
The proposed introduction of a roster, which will extend the hours of work among tram and but workers io offset holidays, may shortly lend to a complete…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire Damage to Motor Lorry
Slight damage was done to the decking of a lorry and some of the wood with which it was loaded when the vehicle caught fire in Piper Lane,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train-bus Tragedy
An appalling tragedy occurred yesterday morning at Hawkesbury when 18 people lost their lives as a result of a collision between a bus and train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train and Bus Crash Fifteen People Killed and Five Seriously Injured Sydney, January 20
Fifteen persons, including several children and two nuns were killed and five seriously injured when the Kempsey mail train crashed into a bus at a level crossing at Hawkesbury River. The bus was cut in two, and one half was carried 400 yards along…
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Ronald Gordon Stevens, 41 years of age, and married, with no family, and residing at 223 Wills Street, was so badly injured about the head in a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram And Bus Stop Threat Inevitable If No Intervention Sydney, January 20
Unless there is any intervention in the Bus and Tram Employees' Unions claim for improved conditions including time off weekly, the threatened 24 hour…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dalton and Williams Get Centuries for Railway Town
A splendid partnership by C. Dalton and J. Williams gave Railway Town victory over Marist Bros. on No. 2 wicket at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Cycle Damaged
Ken Mcwilliams, of 51 Zinc Corporation cottages, South Broken Hill, has reported to the police that his motor cycle, which he left parked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Shadow" Train Service for Second Front London, January 21
The British ralways in collaboration with the fighting services have built up a complete "shadow" service of freight trains, any of which can be put on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Trammen to Meet Today Sydney, January 23
About 500 more men were needed to restore the reasonable working conditions to the industry, said the president of the Tram and Bus Employees' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Fined
In the Police Court this afternoon, before Mr. R. W. S. Kelly, S.M., Ivan Roy Stephens was charged with having, while riding a motor cycle,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trams And Buses To Stop SYDNEY, January 24
No trams or buses will run in Sydney on Wednesday as a result of the decision by two meetings of the tram and bus employees to stop work for 24…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Threat to Sydney's BusTram Services
UNLESS the compulsory conference, which began at noon under Judge Drake Brockman can effect a settlement of the dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram And Bus Hold-up In Sydney And Newcastle Today SYDNEY, January 25
Sydney metropolitan and Newcastle areas will be without tramway and Governmental bus services from midnight tonight until at least one o'clock tomorrow afternoon All efforts today to [?]…
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