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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
817 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 41
CUTS in transport by the railways is causing a shortage of cement, and the Co-Operative Building Societies here are faced with delays in the construction of houses in McGowen Street and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY. — Fifty-two honesty boxes in 13 Sydney trams one day last week yielded exactly a halfpenny…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW YORK, January 26.—Police in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) are making color pictures of motorists charged with drunken driving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Only a few "defect notices" have been issued by the police under the recent amendment of the traffic regulations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney, January 29.—Mr. Justice Sugarmal in the Equity Court today granted Kenneth Henry Ahearn, a member of the Railway Operating…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOKIO, January 30.—A gang of 250 bandits held up a train and robbed 2,000 passengers. The bandits believed to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lithgow, January 30.—Apparently thrown from a mall train early this morning the slightly charred body of a newborn baby was found on roll…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A 59-year-old man was found dead on a track leading from the South Road to the Zinc Corporation baths this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday Brian Tooth, 130 Bagot Street, reported to the police that at 11 a.m. he was riding his motor cycle along Williams Street when he collided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Children who have caused similar damage on other occasions are believed to have been responsible for breaking a window in the diesel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A motor cycle and sidecar, which was taken by joyriders from in front of Johnson's Theatre on Saturday night was later recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →ADELAIDE.—In an atmosphere of anaesthetics, excited nurses, and curious patients, 21-year-old Malcolm Warner, of Semaphore,yesterday, said "I will" at South Australia's most unusual white…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Myrna, February 2.—An unidentified armed motor bent believed to be manned by Greek guerrillas attacked the Turkish motor boat "Messut" off Samos Island…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Secretary for Railways, Mr. S. R. Nicholas, announced today that arrangements had been made for the issue of excursion tickets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Following complaints received concerning noisy motor vehicles, police intend making a watch for this class of offence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE.— Mrs. Olympia Rodriquez (53), of Denmark Hill Road, Hawthorn, was killed when hit by a motor cycle in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PETERBOROUGH. — Lawrence Kloock (22), of Olary, was drowned in Peterborough railway dam on Saturday afternoon when he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MELBOURNE.-In a wind of 100 miles an hour an express train was delayed, telephone lines were broken, and one house was cut in half. A cyclone which swept through…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY — Women's clothing, stockings, underwear, and other goods were hurled to the railway line by thieves after…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AUCKLAND. — It was quite common for Auckland tramway conductors to play poker and buy meals and cigarettes with money…
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