Royal Tour: Neon Crowns Planned For Harbor Bridge
Sydney, January 11.—Royal tour officials are considering a plan to Illuminate the Sydney Harbor bridge with giant neon crowns…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1952
1,007 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 51
Irish Like Green Trams
London, Sunday. — Melbourne's first Irish recruits for their tramways sailed in high spirits when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jenny had tap drink for road
Melbourne. — A young couple found a three-tons elephant turning their garden tap on and off…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Water Train Derailed At Transhipping Yards Engine And Tender Plough Up Rails
Traffic will be disrupted at the transhipping yards for a doy at least following the derailment last night of on engine, tender and one tanker of a water train. The engine slewed across at on angle away from the line…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Zinc Travellers Thankful to Railway Officials For Assistance On Journey From Sydney
Zinc Corporation-N.B.H.C. employees and families who arrived home on Sunday evening on the picnic train from Sydney were loud in their praise of the efforts of railway officials to make their journey as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Cyclist to Pay £12 Fine
A Broken Hill man who rode his motor cycle while under the influence of liquor on the Silverton Road on December 22 was fined £12 in the Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Deaths Accidental
Charges of manslaughter against drivers of two of the three cars involved in a smash on the Menindee Road on December 23, which resulted in the death of a man, a woman and a child,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →226 Are Trapped in Train Blizzards Sweep US; GasThreat
San Francisco, Tuesday.—The 226 people on board a train snowbound high in the Sierra Nevada mountains today faced a new menace—carbon-monoxide…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Fined on 4 Traffic Charges
A young Broken Hill man was discharged in the Police Court, yesterday on a charge of having disobeyed a police direction, but was fined a total of £9 on four other charges of traffic breaches…
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Roads in the Broken Hill district had deteriorated badly during the Christmas period, but the dry weather…
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Work on the Wilcannia Road, between the end of the city boundary and the Flying Doctor Base, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Snowbound Train Passengers Saved
San Francisco, Wednesday. — Rescuers broke through today to 222 people in the City of San Francisco express, which has been snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains since Sunday. Most of the 222 passengers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Siverton Road Work Resumed
The contractor today resumed work on surfacing the Silverton Road after several weeks during which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canberra Motor Cyclists Protest At Pillion Riding Ban
Canberra, January 16.—Some 50 Canberra motor cyclists in York Park this afternoon protested against the proposed ban on pillion…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daring Theft in Tram
Sydney. — A young man snatched an attache case containing £82 from a theatre employee in a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Passengers' Taken From Snowbound Train
Emigrant Gap, California January 17.—A fleet of motor cars has evacuated all the passengers and crew from the snowbound…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →British Banned From Suez Road
Cairo, Thursday.— The Egyptian Government has closed the Cairo-Suez road to British traffic, including diplomatic cars…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Rates Struck By Council to Provide Extra for Road Building
Increased rates on city and mine properties were struck by the City Council at a special meeting last night. The new rates—representing a penny in the £ increase—will provide an extra £17,694 for road…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorist Fined for Negligence
Ronald Kilsby, of Thomas Street, who was convicted on a charge of negligent driving by Mr. E. J. Forrest, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, was fined £2, with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hint For Motorists Keep Check On Batteries In Hot Weather
Hot weather and summer motoring runs combined to cause a much higher evaporation rate from battery cells, said the R.A.A. Chief…
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