OVER 40 Dead in Italian Train Disaster Rome. December 30
Over 40 people were killed and 150 injured when a fast passenger train collided with a troop train at the Torre Annunziata station…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
1,313 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 66
Railway Employe Killed Melbourne
A railway employe, Sydney Charles Leamon aged 29 years, of Nimmo St., Albert Park, whose relatives reside at Mildura. was killed last night at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Young Man and Woman Fatally Injured Motor Cycle Collides with Truck Melbourne
Two young people were killed on the Great Ocean road near Apollo Bay on Saturday evening, when the motor cycle they were riding collided…
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Albert Edward Shadbolt, aged 35, fitter, of Davis street, Boulder, was killed lit 1 a.m. to-day, when his motor cycle crashed into a car. It is believed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chinese Are Still Hopeful New Year Opens Badly Japanese Drop 1100 Bombs French-owned Railway Attacked New York, January 1
Japan’s capture of Nanking, in North K[?] offensive, has made China’s outlook for 194[?] mare [?] than two months ago, yet the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tuppal Creek Bridge Conference [?]
At the last meeting [?] Shire Council, a [?] from the shire clerk [?] in connection with [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Holidays Not Always Happy (By the Road Safety Council)
In an endeavour to reduce road accidents during the holidays, an intensive campaign has been launched by the Road Safety Council in city and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Workshops De- Fended Sydney
Sir Frederick Stewart, acting Minister for Supply, to-day refuted a statement that Australian railway workshops could not efficiently carry out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Abolition of Motor-horn Tooting Melbourne
A complete ban—except in emergency—on the use of motor horns was urged to-day by Mr. A. J. Collocott. president of the National Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Practical Motoring. How to Offset Rising Costs in Car Operation
Now that higher petrol duties, increased registration charges and other rising costs have had the effect of making motoring more expensive,…
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An amendment [?] regulation requir[?] signalling devices [?] will be enforced [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →91 Holiday Road Deaths in N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)
Nineteen people were killed in road accidents in the Dominion during the Christmas holidays. Ten people were killed in motor accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Threatened to Jump Police Ruse to Capture Man on Bridge Rail Car Parked Near-by Melbourne
A ruse by a police wireless patrol about 6 a.m, to-day resulted in the capture of a well-dressed man, who, poised on the railing or the Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Railway Station Platform Being Lengthened
The work in connection with the provision of additional transhipping facilities at the Albury railway station is proceeding rapidly, and by far the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Re-opened Paris, January 2
French and Spanish railway communication. which had been interrupted since July. 1930. has been resumed at both ends of the Pyrenees…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Whirlwind Damages Roof of West’s Motors Garage
Employes at West’s Motors had an exciting few seconds at midday yesterday when a whirlwind momentarily lifted the entire galvanised roof,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Motor Accident on Henty-culcairn Road Visitors to Victoria
On Sunday, December 24, a party motoring from Junee to Melbourne met with a serious accident on the Henty-Culcairn road when their car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Destroys Signal Box Train Services Disorganised MELBOURNE
Serious delays to suburban and country [?] traffic were caused today; following the destruction by fire shortly after 4 a.m. of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One Death Daily (By the Road Safety Council.)
More persons are killed in the month December each year m New South Wales than in any other month. On December 16-there were reported…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Motorists' Corner Sixpence a Gallon
Considerable surprise has been expressed that the Royal Automobile Club of Australia has had little to say on the suggested increase of sixpence a…
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