Railway Compartment Wrecked
A compartment in a box carriage of a social train which conveyed industrial workers to their homes…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
293 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 5 of 15
Wireless Road Service
From May 9, N.R.M.A. emergency road service in the Sydney metropolitan area will be carried out by radio telephony. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Editorial Our Train Service
The South Coast train service, and more particularly the type of carriages provided, has been a perennial cause of complaint by train travellers councils and public bodies. On various occasions, we have drawn the attention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Revenue for Roads Proposal by Deputy Town Clerk
In a report to the last meeting of the Public Vehicles Committee, Mr. T. W. Martin, deputy town clerk, submitted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Run Over by Train Kembla Grange Fatality
A two-year-old boy, William James White, was run over and killed by a train near his home at Kembla Grange on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Run Over by Train Inquest into Child's Death at Kembla Grange
A finding of accidental death was returned at an inquest on Monday into, the death of two years old William James White…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Jerrara Road
Following the signing of a petition by a number of residents of Jerrara, asking that the Jerrara Road for a [?]ile from Mark's Corner be not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Works At Jamberoo
The Engineer (Mr. S. Smee), reported to Jamberoo Council , on Thursday last that the following works had received attention during…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Collides with Train
Passengers in a car which collided with a train on the Locking Kill Quarry line, near Shellharbour station, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Electrification Priority S.C. Line's Position Unaltered
The Premier (Mr. McGirr), in replying to representations made last month in parliament by Mr. Howard Powles, M.L.A., that the electrification of the Illawarra line should be given priority, stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Grants
The Minister for Public Works and Local Government (Mr. J. J. Cahill) has informed Mr. H. T. Fowles, M.L.A., that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Works At Shellharbour
The Engineer (Mr. S., Smee) reported o the last meeting of Shellharbour Council that the following work had been carried out during…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Warning to Motorists
Motorists should pay particular f care to their headlights and quite a number were booked in this district last week-end by traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Plumber's Convictions Allegedly Assaulted Railway Porters
A plumber employed at Lysaghts' Pt. Kembla works, Robert Dobbie, of Albion Park, was convicted at Wollongong Court on Thursday of two charges of assaulting railway porters while they were on duty at Lysaghts' platform on February 22…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Foxground Road
At the meeting of Gerringong Council this week, the Aldermen were very disappointed with the result of the work carried out in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Need for District Aerodrome Quick Transport Vital
With the proposed vast expansion in the industrial sphere of this district and of the inner harbour at Port Kembla, the need of an aerodrome capable of handling all types of aircraft appears to have been forgotten. If an aerodrome is to be established to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train Passengers Were Interrogated and Herded
The "herding of passengers" into a waiting room at Wollongong railway station after they arrived on the 8.10 p.m. train from Sydney on Sunday, and their subsequent "interrogation" by ticket examiners, was deplored by district residents in statements to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Passenger's Complaint Incident at Wollongong Station
Allegations that about 60 train passengers, including women and children, were herded together like a lot of criminals in a waiting room at the Wollongong station and interrogated by seven railway inspectors who had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycle Ride Proves Costly
A young milk carter, who illegally took and used a motor cycle which smashed three plate glass windows of a shop…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mt. Keira Road Maintenance
An amended schedule of works prepared by the Main Roads Department provides for an additional amount of £1,530 to cover…
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