W.A. Railwaymen May Cease Work Perth
A bullot of the employes of the West Australian railways to decide whether the men would work under the award recently made by the Arbitration Court…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
1,935 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 97
Railwaymen’s Ultimatum Expires on January 24 ADELAIDE
The railway men’s 14 days’ notice to the management for altered conditions expires on January 24, but action Will depend on the reply of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →How People Die Australia’s Accident Toll Motor’s Comparative Safety
Despite the fact that the figures covering fatal accidents in Australia in 1936, recently issued by the Commonwealth Bureau of Consus and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steel Motor Bodies Creates a Car Industry £1,000,000 Compay in N.S.W.
One of the amazing things about modern industry is the manner in which research, development and progress bring into being new industries,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Transport
In our last issue we published an interesting letter from the Administrator of the Department of Road Transport, in which is was stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Rescued From Bridge Hazardous Climb
With the aid of electric torches, Constable W. Gale, of the Echuca police, climbed 70ft. up the piles of the Murray Bridge, between Echuca…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Crash at Crossing Car Wrecked by Train
A passenger was fatally injured when a car was swept for 100 yards in front of a Mornington (Vic.) train, at Baxter. The driver of the car had a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Road Transport Department’s Inquiries (To the Editor)
Sir,—With regard to the licensing under the State Transport (Co-ordination) Act, 1931, of commercial motor vehicles to operate in the Riverina, I…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempt to Rob Mail Van. On Adelaide-Melbourne Train. ADELAIDE
A daring attempt was made to rob the mail van on the Adelaide bound Melbourne express between Tailem Bend and Serviceton yesterday. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car and Caravan Collide on Bridge Driver and Passenger Hurt Accident Near Wodonga
The driver of a hire car running between Albury and Wodonga, Ernest Zienert, and a passenger. Miss Dorrie Flowers, were injured late on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods on North Coast Passenger Train Missing No Fears for Crew or Passengers Sydney
The Murwlllumbah passenger--train which left Casino at 3.5 yesterday afternoon; and should I have reached The Risk, 14 mines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Untold Damage Done by Floods in North Rivers Swirling Torrents Man and Many Cattle Drowned Train Marooned; Towns Isolated SYDNEY
Widespread damage the extent of which it is yet impossible to assess, was caused over a wide area of the North Coast by flood waters, which are swirling down all the coastal rivers. Hundreds of acres of low-lying areas are covered too a depth of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Vehicles in N.s.w
Figures released by the Transport Department show that there is a motor vehicle for every 8.8. people in New South Wales, and one license to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Early Morning Scene at Railway
Unloading fruit on to lorries at the Albury railway station, early yesterday morning. This is daily routine, and thousand of cases of mixed fruit from the surrounding districts are stacked into trains for transport lo Melbourne, or from trains for removal to various centres…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bridge at Hodgson’s a Knotty Problem No Decision Made Yet Yackandandah Council Discussion
Yackandandah Shire Council, which again requested the Lands Department to throw open the frontage to the bridge site chosen by council at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death of Major McCORMACK Chairman Op Country Roads Board Melbourne
The death occurred this morning of Major William Thomas Bartholomew McCormack, chairman of the Country Roads Board, after an Illness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Speed Limit for Motor Cars Its Application at Albury Motorists Warned
New resolutions fixing speed limits for motor-driven vehicles, which are reported to the operating beneficially in Sydney, are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Employe Injured at Wodonga
While working on the coal stage at Wodonga railway yards on Saturday, Mr. J. Miller, a railway employe, sustained painful injuries when he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Proposed New Aerodrome. The P.P. Board Agrees to Amended Plan
At Saturday's meeting of the Hay P.P. Board, a deputation from the Hay Municipal Council and the Waradgery Shire Council waited on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Celebrations Cause Increased Train Passenger Traffic
Thousands of people will pass through Albury by train within the next few weeks en route to Sydney to view the 150th centenary celebrations…
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