Railways Chief
MR. T. J. HARTIGAN, Chief Railways Commissioner for N.S.W., who yesterday told Cabinet Ministers of the serious financial position of this huge…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
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People to Pay for Railway Losses Fares Up By 10 Per Cent. Cabinet Decision Last Evening. New Rates to Operate From March 1. SYDNEY
Suburban and country railway passenger fares are to be increased by 10 per cent, as from March 1 next. Freight on a certain classes of goods will also be increased by approximately 10 per cent, as from the same date, but no change will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stock Routes. Discussion of Difficulties. When May A Road Be Used
which sometimes arise over travelling stock were discussed by Mr S. Ick-Hewins assistant general secretary of the Graziers'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inquest Into His Death Held on Man’s Birthday Howlong Road Accident a Laborer’s End
John Carl Adolph Schulz, laborer of Howlong, who met his death on the evening of January 17 when he fell from a truck near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosions in London Tube Railway Stations Extensive Damage Done Time Bombs Believed Used I.R.A. Sympathisers Blamed LONDON, February 3
Explosions believed to have been caused by time bombs bidden in suitcases in the luggage offices of Tottenham Court Road and Leicester Square tube stations occurred at six o’clock this morning. A ticket collector at Tottenham Court Road was seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Torpedo Boats May Built in England Sydney
The Australian naval authorities are perturbed because the continued delays in the construction in Australia of motor torpedo boats may jeopardise…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dirty Railway Trucks Affect Shipment of Flour Sydney
The Railway Department should not take advantage of its monopoly making no effort to keep its trucks clean, said the secretary of the Flour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Severely Injured Motorist Unaware Accident of Melbourne
With his ankle reduced to almost a pulp, and leg. fractured in three places, Robert Smith, 21, Edgevale road, Kew was left lying on a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How High Do You Fly? When Driving a Motor Car New Angle on Speed
How high do you fly when driving? This is not a question from a comic strip; nor is it a radiogram from the planet Mars. It is just a new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late Arrival of Goods Train
Troubles of some months ago are again being experienced by agents and business people in Albury, owing to the recurring late arrival of the early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Run Down by Train
Run down by the Sydney express the mutilated body of a young man believed to be James Anderson, was found on the railway line on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Man Injured Fall From Train Melbourne
Falling from an electric train near the Sandringham station This morning, Mr. W. Minchin, aged 42, of West A bury, who was staying at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring News. Some Interesting Items
Few motorised countries through-out the world maintained in 1938 their sales figures in new cars and commercial vehicles for 1937…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Motors Considerable Seduction Type Berlin, February 5
Colonel yon Sehell, the Transport Commissioner, has announced that 270 of the 335 types of motor vehicles being manufactured in Germany will go…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →30 Years on the Railways
Mr. Thomas Mitchell, who has been ganger on the railways at Balldale for the past 22 years, has retired after 30 years’ service…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Loading Artillery Railway Trucks Altered Melbourne
To permit faster loading of artillery for rail transport, alterations have been made to a number of flat-topped trucks by the Victorian Railways to the order…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →World’s Motor Cars 42,900,000 Vehicles
According to the latest figures [?]ceived from America by the N.R.[?] it is estimated that the world registration of motor vehicles reached 42,900…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Safety. Children. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
School vacation has drawn to a close, and many thousands of children throughout the Slate are travelling by various means of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Experimental Plot Oat and Wheat Train at Finley
Wheat and oat [?] conducted by [?] conjuction will [?] Agriculture, under [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yarra Bridge Plan Capital Cost of £165,000 MELBOURNE
A scheme for the erection, of a floating bridge over the Yarra, to provide an improved traffic route between the City and Williamstown, was submitted…
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