The Biggest Bridge Known
The longest bridge in the world is the Tay Bridge, in Scotland, which is two miles and 73 yards hem end to end; but a bridge more than twice as long…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1922
577 stories in Murray's papers · page 27 of 29
Train Derailment at Springhurst
During shunting operations at Springhurst on Thursday, November 2, at 12.30 p.m., two Z vo[?]s and one carriage af the Wahgunvah train while…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Callipoli Revisited. Australians Make Roads
on "Gallipoli Revisited," Brigadier-General C. Cunliffe Owen, D.S.O., brings into contrast the life and movement of Anzac Beach seven years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →Motors. Some Useful Information Regarding Them. Body Design Modifications
Amongst the many modifications in body design that have come to the Fore during recent years the tendency of developing the streamline form is…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Farmers and the Railways. Brocklesby Requests
Recently Mr. O. Schilg, hon. secretary of the Brocklesby branch of the F.S. A., wrote as follows to the general secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Border Railways. Passed Through All Stages
The Border Railways Bill, which was last week passed without amendment by the Vic. Legislative Assembly, was introduced to the Legislative Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Border Railways
The passage of the Border Railways Bill through both the New South Wales and the Victorian Parliament is the best proof that has yet been…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Lower Railway Freights
A new policy has been decided upon by the Railway Commissioners in regard to fares and freights. Althoug the Government has not authorised…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Proposed Private Railway Lines
While there arc miles of railways, rusty through insufficient traffic throughout the country, should private companies be allowed to build…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →The Gilmore-batlow Railway. Beautiful Country
At the present time, when the opening up of Australia is of such vital importance, a few words on the Gilmore-Batlow line, which is reaching its…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Railway Rates for Low-grade Ores
It has been represented to the Railway Commissioners that some fillip might be given to the mining industry generally in New South Wales, which…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Fortune in a Suit Case. £4000 Lost in Train
With a suit case cotanining £4000 in notes beside him a London woollen merchant named Greenberg, travelled by train to pay an account at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Breaking and Entering and Theft of Motor Car
A lad named Richard Collis was charged that on the 3rd October, at Hay, he did break and enter the shop of the Maclure Proprietary Limited,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Border Railways
The Mayor wired from Melbourne Thursday last that the Border Railway Bill, which was last week passed [?] out amendment by the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Weighbridges. No Change at Present
The railway commissioners, have informed the Hon. R. T. Ball. Minister for Works and Railways, that it was the practice to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Resumption of D. & M. Railway
Mr. Glenn moved: "That the District Council urge the Government to resume the Deniliquin-Moama railway at the earliest moment, and before new construction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Combustion Engine Should Interest Railways
It is and always has been a matter if some surprise to thoughtful motorists that a great and ever-extending use has not been made of the internal…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →The Railways Must Pay
The Railway Commissioner, replying to a deputation at Glen Innes, remarked: "We would never get reduced fares and freights if we were, to accede to all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wireless Telephony on Police Motors
Experiments with wireless telephone sets on police patrol motor cars having been successful, the chief commissioner of Vic. police (Mr. R. E. Nicholson…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Motors. Some Useful Information Regarding Them. Balance Engine Running
Few motorists realise what an important factor balance is in the running of their engine. So sensitive is the present day auto engine that a few ounces of…
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