No.1 Salesman for Railways
Honors for the year's best example of salesmanship in the Victorian Railways has been awarded to the assistant stationmaster at Moonee , Ponds…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
1,604 stories in Murray's papers · page 54 of 81
Competition Killing American Railways "Most Companies Bankrupt" Melbourne
Victoria is not the only place in the world where competition between road and rail services is a vexed question as according to Mr. W. P. Waggener…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hold Up in Compulsory Inspection of Motor Vehicles Sydney
Until inspectors of stations had been appointed the compulsory inspection of motor vehicles could not be enforced declared the Commissioner for Road…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reducing Road Deaths
The brightest news for many months comes, not from overseas, where world interest has centred for half-a-dozen years, but from our own State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fewer Road Deaths N.S.W. Drive Successful Claim by Minister Sydney
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Braxner) announced to-day that during the year ended June 30. road deaths had dropped by 10 per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorist Not Expected to Live Orange
A member of a prominent Orange family, Arnold Felick, aged 35, was badly burned to-day when his car overturned, four miles from Orange…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deniliquin Aerodrome Meets Department’s Requirements
A letter was read at the Deniliquin Council meeting last night from the Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr. Fairbairn) with reference to the local…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yarrawonga Bridge Subsidence
At the Coreen Shire Council meeting yesterdays, the Engineer, Mr. F. C. Spring, reported that the approaches to the Yarrawonga bridge were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycling Road Races
Racing away from his opponents over the five-miles course on Sunday, Ron Howard had the easiest of victories, and was responsible for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bitumen Road Loan
Another step nearer to having the main highway through Deniliquin surfaced with bitumen was made last night by Deniliquin Council. The town clerk…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Municipal Council Meeting Numerous Requests For Roads Improvement
Deniliquin Council met last night, when there were present : The Mayor (Ald. J. E. McFaull), Ald. J. Hynes, T. A. Bradford, E. T. Matthews, R. J…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Safety Council Branch at Wagga
Lieut Col. Youden, general secretary of the Road Safety Council, addressed a meeting at Wagga last night at which it was decided to form a branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Developmental Road? Serving Walliston-Thyra Districts
“When the Shires” Association placed before Murray Shire Council yesterday a plea by the president of the association for a greater allocation of funds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rumanian Train Fatality. Killed, 15; Injured, 43. BUCHAREST
Fifteen were killed and 43 injured in the derailment of two passenger carriages of a train near Cere…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Deliberately Caused' American Train Disaster 21 Persons Dead; 69 INJURED 15 Die When Rumanian Train is Derailed RENO (Nevada), August 13
Twenty-one persons were killed and 69, including two Melbourne residents, were injured, when the Southern Pacific Railway crack 80-miles an-hour stream-lined express, "City of San Francisco," crashed through a bridge into a river in the mountains of Nevada, 14 carriages plunging 30ft…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nevada Train Derailed. Killed, 19; Injured, 50. San Francisco
The crack eighty miles an hour streamlined express, "City of San Francisco," struck a rock in the Nevada mountains and was derailed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Occupants of Van Have Amazing Escape Struck by Electric Train Melbourne
An amazing escape from death was experienced by two occupants of a delivery van, which was wrecked by an electric train at a level crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It Was a Year of Progress (Issued by the Road Safety Council)
Streets and highways, cities and towns and rural areas are now under the microscope as the stocktaking of road accidents for the year is being…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PLUNGED 30 Feet Train and Carriages 19 KILLED; 50 Injured San FRANCISCO--Aug. 14
The crack eighty-mile per hour st[?]-lined express "City of San Francisco" struck a rock in the Nevada mountains and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Beckley Killed. In Motor Accident. CAIRNS, Monday Night
Ronald Joseph B. Beckley, 40, of Manly, N.S.W., and Miss Elizabeth Irvine, 56, of Mosman, were killed when a tourist, passenger coach…
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