Railway Stoppage Averted SYDNEY, January 25
following a compulsory conference he had with representatives of the Australian Railways Union, the National Union of Railwaymen and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
504 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 26
Sydney's Tram And Bus Men Go On Strike
SYDNEY.—All manner of conveyances were used to transport a quarter of a million people to work in Sydney today. Many…
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The Main Road Board gang employed on repairs in the vicinity of Popiltah Station have finished. The road is very bad. Motorists have been bogged since…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Seriously Injured Fell From Motor Cycle
Very few facts are available concerning a man who has been admitted to Hospital with a fractured skull. He has been only semi-conscious since his…
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WAIKERIE.—With a dead woman in the driver's seat, a car ran into a sandbank about 1[?] miles from Waikerie…
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The transport conference adjourned until tomorrow (Saturday) and present intentions are that it will be continued on Sunday…
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The Transport Commissioner has been extremely unsympathetic towards the claims of tram and bus employees declared the Federal president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Town Pensioners
Old Age and Invalid pensions, which are now being paid at Broken Hill Railway Town Post Office on Wednesdays will be paid on Thursdays as from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pension Payments at Railway Town
Old age and invalid pensions, which are now being paid at Broken[?] Hill Railway Town Post Office on Wednesday, will be paid on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mutilated Body on Railway Line
SYDNEY.—Investigating a report that a man had slashed his wrists in King Street, city, early yesterday, the police found his mutilated body lying…
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SYDNEY.—The Federal Minister for Transsport (Mr. Ward) announced today that plane are to be prepared for the standardisation of railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Accidents Down in N.s.w
SYDNEY.—The number of people killed in road accidents in New South Wales last year was 383, the lowest for many years, and a decrease of 110…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Allies Are Now Driving For The Road To Rome
LONDON, February 2.—A violent flare up south of Rome, with the Allies attacking strongly in an all-out effort to drive through to the road to Rome, was reported tonight by Rome radio. The attack began this, afternoon and the Allies were doing everything on a gigantic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mile From Estonia Road Cracked Open By Capture Of Last Bastion Russians Systematically Cutting Chances Of Escape. LONDON, February 2
The capture by Russians today of Orly brought the Red Army to within a mile of the Estonian border. Russians cracked open the road to Estonia by capturing Kingisepp, nine miles from the border and 16 miles from Narva. The Germans had pinned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Outflanked British Cross Rome-Capua Railway Americans Endangering Defensive Structure Of Gustav Line LONDON, February 2
Operating from the Allied beachhead, a British column has outflanked General Kesselring's fortified line south from the Alban Mountains. The British advancing to the outskirts of Campolcone on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram And Engine Collide NEWCASTLE, February 3
In a level crossing smash between a coal train locomotive and a tram at Wallsend today, both the engine and tram suffered damage, but no one was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trammies' Claims SYDNEY February 3
The hearing of the six main claims of the Tram and Bus Employees' Union was completed today before the chairman of the Tramways Reference Board, Mr. V…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Decisions on Monday, in Tramway Case
SYDNEY.—Addressing the Tramway Reference Board chairman (Mr. V. G. Hall) during a discussion on the new rosters which the department…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorist Electrocuted
WELLINGTON (N.Z.).—A motorist in Dunedin lost his life last night while examining a wrecked car. He was Gordon Anderson Parks,…
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