Locals In Motor Car Accident at Burra
ADELAIDE.— serious accident was narrowly averted early yesterday when a sedan car smashed three concrete posts on the Bonacdrd Bridge at…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
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Motoring Mishap
At 9.10 o'clock last night, Mr. S. Langford, of 399 Mica Street, struck a telephone post while driving his utility. Travelling slowly along Oxide…
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MELBOURNE.—High temperatures buckling the rails are believed to have caused the derailment of an electric train two miles…
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LONDON, January 13.—Having derailed a train at a point between Lydda and Haifa, in Palestine, by placing explosives on the line, about…
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Jerusalem, January 13.—It was officially revealed that about 70 armed Arabs attacked the Haita-Lyddo train, which was derailed when a mine blew up under the engine. Arabs escaped with a safe containing £35,000, wages for railway employees. The explosion…
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At 1 a.m. yesterday Mr. A. Austin, of 242 Wolfram Street, was taken in the Civil Ambulance to the Hospital. He was a passenger in a car that came…
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From Cyril Burley, "Barrier Miner" Correspondent LA.E, January 14.—Several million pounds worth of spare parts—enough with those on the mainland to meet Australia's needs for 20 years—have been stored in New…
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With the departure of an extra train on Monday night for Adelaide, Mr. T. C. Gun, manager of the Silverton Tramway Co., said yesterday that restrictions on…
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Sydney, January [?].—Twenty-four people were injured, two seriously, when a Crow's Nest-bound train crashed into the rear of a Lane Cove tram on the…
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SYDNEY.—Twenty-one people were injured, four ertically, when two trams telescoped midway across the One ambulance racing to the scene…
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SYDNEY.—A giant four-engined R.A.F. Sunderland flying-boat was flown under the Harbor Bridge. The Sunderland had just reached Sydney…
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BOOKING of seats between Parkes and Sydney on the Forbes mail will be restored as from Tuesday next. This advice…
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Mr. T. C. Gun manager for the Silver ton Tramway [?] said yesterday that reports indicated that water was across the has in several places and train service…
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The road between Broken Hill and Wentworth is in very difficult condition at present. There has been a gradual worsening of the important…
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Silverton Tramway Co. advised late this afternoon that the produce train due here tomorrow at 8 a.m. would not reach…
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The ruin has caused serious wash-aways on the Broken Hill-Sydney line on the section to Menindee from the mining city…
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First point in the New Year program of the Australian Automobile Association, of which the RAA is a constituent member, is to seek removal of the…
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THERE has been a serious dislocation of the Silverton Tramway Co.'s services between Broken Hill and Cockburn. The manager…
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CONSIDERABLE damage to the permanent way resulted when seven djins (oval tanks) of a water train were derailed between Tiuna and Broken Hill at 9 p.m. on Thursday. The weight of the train was 814 tons and the djins…
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Broken Hill is isolated by rail from Sydney and Adelaide because of washaways and derailments. Sydney line is not expected to be restored for traffic for about three days, and as far as is known the Adelaide line traffic will…
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