Cross Country Railway
To the Public Works Committee, Mr. [?] H. Rowney, Wollondilly Shire Engin[?] gave the following evidence: From a knowledge of the country to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1923
216 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 8 of 11
Pioneer Creek Bridge
Ald. D. E. Weir, ever since he entered the Jamberoo Council, has been consistently battling for a bridge over Pioneer Creek. Given a free hand…
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A Mayoral minute unanimously carried at last Wollongong Council meeting authorised the expenditure of £250 on the roads in the municipality owing to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Matters
Mr. C. Steele, who was booking clerk at Thirroul for a number of years, and now at Goulburn, looked up some of his old friends during the week while on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensed Motors
"During my 12 years experience in Wollongong the only satisfactory means I hare found of dealing with motor bus traffic is to prosecute the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Accident at Kiama
Through a goods truck fouling the main line at Kiama on Monday, the evening train to Nowra was severely damaged, an official estimating that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motors and Motoring
Those of the older generation will re call the glorious feeling of immunity from punctures which they enjoyed when using "cushion" tyres on their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Coal Contracts
In answer to a question by Capt. Duns the Minister for Railways last weelgave the appended information as t[?] contracts for coal supplies accepted for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Kiama Motor-cycle Club
With the object of forming a Motor Cycle Club a meeting was held at the office of Pi[?] & Morrow, on Wednesday, 12th September, when Mr. Ray…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Illawarra Train Service
It has been proven over and over again that concerted agitation is the sole means of gaining any public benefit from the Railway Department, and with the approaching advent of the summer time-table the time is opportune for immediate action if any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General. Road Accidents
Our Balgownie correspondent writes: —A number of accidents have occurred on our beautiful roads. Messrs. R. Wee[?]es and M. Findley met with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Austinmer Progress Association. Improved Train Service Asked For
The Austimer Progress Association had another well attended meeting on Thursday night, the 13th. Mr. Goss occupied the chair…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coroner's Court Railway Fatality
A Magisterial Inquiry touching the death of John Joseph Baietto. whose mutilated body was found on the railway line between…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Cross Country Railway Inquiry
The inquiry by the Public Works Committee concluded during the week with a reply by Mr. H. R. Lee, secretary of the Advisory Committee, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →English Roads
Captain W. J. R. Richardson, late Shire Clerk at Bulli, writing to a friend, comments on English roads as follows: —I am staying about 60 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Minnamurra Bridge
There passed through Wollongong on Tuesday a 25 ton crane from Newcastle railway depot to be used in placing the steel girders on the foundations of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car Versus Train
A party from Dapto set out by car for Sydney at noon on Saturday, expecting, among other things, to arrive at the "big smoke" several hours ahead…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Fares, South Coast Line
Mr William Davies, M.L.A., asked the Minister for Railways in Parliament,— (1) Is it a fact that the return fare from Helensburgh to Wollongong, a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accident on Railway Line
Mr. Hedley Thomas, riding ganger on the Thirroul Wollongong section of the local railway line, was riding a railway motor cycle near the Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Bus Proprietor. Fined for Failing to Observe Time Table
At the Wollongong Police Court this morning John Sarin Anderson was charged with failing to observe a motor omnibus time table…
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