No Tram Stoppage
Sydney, March 29.—There will be no stoppage of tram and bus services in Sydney and Newcastle next Saturday or Easter Monday…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
447 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 23
One Dead And Five Hurt In Road Smash
SYDNEY.—A soldier was killed and five other persons injured, two critically, when a motor car crashed into a stationary bus on the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How British Troops Rolled Along Dusty Road To Mandalay
IT was a hot dusty road to Mandalay. It could scarcely be called a road at all. It was at best, no more than a track originally marked by Burmese carts, its ruts deepened by the army's transports. In places it had been bulldozed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Buin Road Battle Won Australians Turn Danger To Victory
From Fred Aldridge, on Bongainville, April 5.—The first battle of the Birin road has been won by Australian Matilda tanks and infantrymen. Rushed into the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assault on Vienna Begun Progress Made On Road To Berlin
London, April 6.—With the capture of Bruck, which was announced by Marshal Stalin, Marshal Malinovsky burst clean through the gap between Eusiedler Lake and the south bank of the Rhine en route to Vienna…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge Strike Settled
SYDNEY.—A settlement was achieved this morning in the strike of 400 men employed on the Hawkesbury River railway bridge and union…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mildura-melbourne Train Service
Mr. C. W. Maiden announced last night that Mildura-Melbourne train service is at once to be restored to its pre-war basis, a train to Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Town's Wind-up Social
At a very successful function held at the Druids' Hall on Saturday night the Railway Town Cricket Club held its annual wind-up and distribution of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Impressive Scenes At Mr. Roosevelt's Funeral Train
Washington, April 14.—Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt returned in death at 11.14 a.m. today to White House which he grated longer than any other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Resurfacing The Local Aerodrome
A high-speed job which includes the resurfacing of 92,000 square yards of runways at the Broken Hill Aerodrome was put in hand yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Job at Aerodrome Redressing Of 92,000 Square Yards Of Runways
One of the biggest, and by far the speediest job, ever undertaken in Broken Hill is now under way at the aerodrome, where 92,000 square yards of runways are being resurfaced with bitumen and fine blue metal screenings…
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SYDNEY.—When a truck in which he and his father were travelling skidded and crashed over an embankment at Mona Vale last night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Anzac Day Train Passes
The executive of the local Returned Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen's [?] League of Australian wish in make it clear to all returned Diggers who have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Standardisation Of Railways
MELBOURNE—Expressing strong support for the unification of Australian rail gauges, the Commonwealth Railways Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Men Promised for Railways
CANBERRA.—The Minister for Labor (Mr, Holloway) has given an assurance to the railway unions that he will call an immediate conference…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Buses to Replace Newcastle Trams
NEWCASTLE. — Addressing the Rotary Club yesterday, the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) said that because they would be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Housing
Mr. M. A. Davidson has been advised as follows by the Assistant Minister Mr. W. E. Dickson: "I am referring to your recent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Manufacture of Motor Cars
SYDNEY.—With all capital subscribed by the Nuffield organisation prominent British car manufacturers, a company to produce…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Interesting Points In Railway Appeal Case Heard This Week
POINTS of considerable legal interest came before the Railway Appeals Board this week when it dealt with the appeal of George William Norman Boyle, against his dismissal from the railway service on two charges, namely: (1) His conduct in that on February 9, 1945,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ivanhoe Man Exonerated Railway Appeals Upheld
Points of considerable legal interest came up before the Railway appeals Board this week in Broken Hill when the appeal of George William…
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