Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Railways, roads & transport, all years

Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1933

684 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 35

Killed by Train Shocking Death Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 January 1933 · page 3

Edward Powell, a middle-aged man a fittler, was run down and killed by a train between Ourimbah and Tuggerah. The body was shockingly…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Train in Flames Crash Into Lorry LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 5

A motor lorry laden with inflammable chemicals driving through thick mist—a stationary omnibus which hid a railway…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Railways Employees Over 60 SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 January 1933 · page 6

About two months ago the Railway Commission decided that about 2000 surplus employees should be retired or retrenched from the railway…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

New Tram Cars Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 2

The Commissioner for Tramways (Mr. S. A. Maddocks) announced last night that the tender of the Clyde Engineering Co., Ltd., for the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Stream of Bullets In Motor Car Man's Mad Act Then Cuts Throat Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 5 January 1933 · page 3

Firing a stream of bullets into a motor car at Clovelly this morning a man who suddenly became demented wounded two people…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

RAILWAYS Re-organisation Message to Staff

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 6 January 1933 · page 1

The new railway administration, headed by the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. T. J. Hartigan), with Mr. F. C. Garside as…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Motor Accident Lady’s Arm Nearly Severed Caught Between Door and Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 2

A motor accident occurred on Saturday on the Bookham road, resulting in a lady’s arm being nearly severed. The sufferer was…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Road Maintenance Old Methods Favored

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 January 1933 · page 1

The Shire president at Young (Cr. H. G. Thackeray), has been experimenting with old methods of road, maintenance, by placing two men…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

B.B.C. Forestalled by Ford's Motors London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 3

Ford Motors have arranged to take over the test match broadcasts from Paris, forestalling the British Broadcasting Corporation…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Changes in Railway At Goulburn Centralisation Reports Not Confirmed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 January 1933 · page 3

Although official circles in Goulburn know nothing of the proposals, it is understood that big changes are being made in…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Motoring New Record Motor Cycle Speed Straight Twin Engine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 4

Particulars are now to hand of Ernst Henne's successful attempt to regain for Germany the world's motor cycle speed record…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

RAILWAYS Commissioners' Plans

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 6

The Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Hartigan) has decided to eliminate a number of positions in the higher grades of the railway service…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

New Records For Railway Handling

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 3

The Railway Department has created new records in the handling of wool and wheat. In the six weeks from the middle…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Ryan's Creek Bridge Repairs to Be Carried Out by Day Labor

The Burrowa News · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 3

The Mayor explained that the matter of accepting the tenders was left to him in order to expedite matters and the report to the Main Roads…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Black Bog Bridge

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 2

Although the Black Bog bridge, on the Good Hope road, which since severance has become the property of the Goodradigbee Shire, carries a…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Railways and Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 2

We make no excuse for returning to the subject of the railways. Goulburn owes a great deal of its importance to the fact that it…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Motor Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 2

On Wednesday afternoon near the 33 mile peg on the Bookham road, a Dodge sedan, when negotiating a sharp turn on the road, overturned…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Cut to Pieces Train Fatality Near Hornsby Sydney

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 January 1933 · page 3

Sidney Anderson, 22, was cut to pieces by a train near Hornsby this morning. A companion, Alfred Haigh, who…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Road Funds

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. says that already 125 shire and municipal councils have agreed to co-operate with the Association in entering a protest to the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Road Veteran's One Redeeming Feature

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 January 1933 · page 4

A car which figured in an English case was stated to be eight years old, to have no mudguards, no bonnet, no doors on one side…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →