Finland on Road Out of War ?
"The New York Times" Stockholm correspondent learns from highly placed authorities that Finland has really embarked on the road leading…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
504 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 26
Railway Services May Be Cut
SYDNEY.—Unless the coal position improves there is a likelihood of farther drastic cuts in railway passenger services. This was stated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commonwealth Railways CANBERRA, February 15
A profit of £1.000.865 was earned by all Commonwealth railways in the year ended June 30, 1943, compared with £97.174 in the previous year. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Vehicles Collide
Only slight damage was done and no person was injured in a collision which occurred at 7.30 p.m. yesterday at the deviation on the road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tibooburra Road In 'Shocking State'
The roads between Tibooburra and Broken Hill are in a "shocking state." The present policy of smoothing them over and filling up pot holes with stones is inadequate. A constructive policy would be to put down permanent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bridge Unsafe For Children Council Urges Renewal of Netting
Present at the Council meeting held on Thursday of last week were Ald E C. Young (Mayor), M. Goonrey, F. Warwick and G. Fairhead. The Town Clerk (Mr. G. Lawrence) reported that he had interviewed Mr. Alexander, P.W.D., Broken Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crossings And Gutters Washed Out Trials of the Tibooburra Road Users
The recent rains that fell over a wide area of the Far West, and the whole of the way between Broken Hill and Tibooburra brought joy to many hundreds of people—and tears to the users of the road! The mail service has ben restored after…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Tram Stoppage In Sydney SYDNEY, February 16
Despite opposition from a section led by officials of the Omnibus Section of the employees in the Sydney Transport industry a mass meeting of members of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railwayman Injured
While working on the spur line from the Transhipping Yara to the Zinc Corporation this morning, James Whetstone, an employee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ben Bowyang Motor-Minded!
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Tram Dispute
SYDNEY.—The aggregate of votes among tram and bus men is heavily in favor of accepting Judge DrakeBrockman's judgment and cancelling…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Rain at Quinyambie Bad Roads and Good Feed
It is now announced that in the recent rain Quinyambie Station got a drenching rain of 3½ inches, while shortly before a storm broke over this property to give a very timely and much needed 1½ inches. As a result of these wonderful visitations,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Allegedly Causes Inconvenience
A complaint was made at the Council meeting last night that the railway line being constructed by the Zinc Corporation was causing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russian Forces Nearing Pskov Keypoint Town And Railway Station Captured Helsinki Again Heavily Raided London [?] 27
Russian forces on the Pskov sector yesterday broke into the town and a large railway station of Parkhov, on the railway from Starayarussa and also captured the railway station of Novoselya, 25 miles north-east from Pskov, as well as taking over 100…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Fined
In the Police Court today Ivan Roy Stevens was charged with riding a motor cycle in Bonanza Street, South Broken Hill, and carrying a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →S.A. Railway Men To Strike ADELAIDE, February 28
The South Australian Branch of the A R U tonight resolved upon a Statewide strike of 24 hours commencing on midnight on Sunday, March 3 till…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Russian Armies Striking for Latvian Border Pskov Railway Station Only 13 Miles Away LONDON, February 28
Two Russian armies are striking out determinedly through swampy wooded country towards the Lotvian border. The two columns are the right and left wings of General Popov's Baltic forces, and they are both pushing westward along the few…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Fined
Ivan Roy Stevens was fined 10/- with 5/6 costs, in the Police Court yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of having carried a passenger on the pillion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Barrier Miner Tuesday, February 29, 1944. Railway Reservations
THE B.D.A.A.L.P. is doing a good job in asking local members to make further approaches to the Government in order to try and remedy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rocket Gun Makes Noise Like Train
LONDON, March 1. — The Press Association discloses some details of Britain's anti-aircraft rockets, which for months observers…
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