Week-end Road Toll Sydney
It is estimated that fifteen people were killed and about forty injured in road accidents during the week-end in the Commonwealth…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
1,313 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 66
Train Time Table Curtailed Service Two Trains a Week
The altered train time table caused by the coal strike has come into operation this week with the result that there will be only two trains per week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Explosion at Rothbury Sabotage Not Suspected Steelworkers and the Coal Strike Suburban Train Services to be Curtailed NEWCASTLE
Mystery surrounds the cause of an explosion which occurred in one of the tunnels at the Rothbury mine early this morning. No one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Strike Its Effect on Railwaymen SYDNEY, Tuesday Morning
Officials of the Australian Railway Union said, last night, further retrenchments had taken place in the railways as a result of the coal strike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Fatality Near Chiltern Albury Woman Dead: Bank Official Seriously Injured
Miss Rita Huf, aged 35 years, nurse, of Frau[?]folder's street, Albury, died in the Wangaratta Base Hospital at 4 a.m. on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Soviet Railways Moscow, April 7
“Pravda” states that a new railway, 76, miles in length, connecting Petrozavodsk and Suojarvi, is [?] operating. It was built in two months…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorist Committed for Trial Hobart
That Eric Tasman Heron, of Hobart, [?]eloniously slew Lindray Lovell Chapman of Hobart was the finding of the Coroner at the inquest into Chapman’s…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Collides with Tram Standard; Man Killed Melbourne
Reginald Dawson, aged 50, of Marne st.. South Yarra was fatally injured early to-day when a motor car he was driving crashed into a tram standard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Noisy Motorists Police Out to Check Them Horn Must Be Sounded Only As Warning of Danger
If a motorist sounds the horn for any other purpose than as a warning of danger he is liable to be paraded before the Police Magistrate and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To the Editor Bowna Creek Bridge
Sir —In your issue of the 5th inst Mr. O .V Daly States, “He has yet to hear of owners (from about here) who send their stock to Holbrook…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Train Service. Now Most Inconvient
As a result of the coal strike, and the curtailment of train services, people along this line to Sydney are being subjected to the inconvenience…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grave Concern Aroused Explosive Found in Workman’s Train Detectives Are Investigating Sydney
A quantity of explosive powder. [?] adhesive tape, was found [?] a carriage seat of the workers’ [?] at Chullora to-day. Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Royal Jubilee Chosen To Win Wagga Gold Cup Night Train Hard to Beat Delvino For the Sprint
Royal Jubilee, who appeared to be in fine order when lie arrived in Albury on Sunday, is selected as the likely winner of the Wagga Gold on the opening day of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club’s Cup meeting to-day. Hardest for Royal Jubilee to defeat may be Night Train and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£2000 Work on Railway Near. Chiltern
To ensure safely on two long curves in the railway line about four miles on the Melbourne side of Chiltern for fast and heavy traffic a two-mile embankment estimated to cost £2000, is being built. Forty horses and 25 men are being used on the work instead of the usual mechanical grab…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Motor Train for Transport of Children From Jerilderie to Rural School
As a result of prolonged discussion at the last meeting of the District Council of the Parents and Citizens' Associations, particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Strike Secret Ballot Suggested No Good Attempting the impossible-Mr.Mair. Further Train Curtailments Likely Sydney
A suggestion that the Premier take steps to have a secret ballot taken amongst coal miners to ascertain whether they were prepared to continue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Strike Affects Railways Numerous Restrictions and Reduced Services
Due to the coal strike the railway services have been considerably affected with many reductions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Strike Why Not Motor Transport?
THE strike in the coal-mining industry is beginning to make itself felt throughout the country. Restrictions of train services, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victorian Railways’ Coal Supply Melbourne
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Hyland) said to-day that the Victorian railways had sufficient coal stocks for six weeks’ running of steam trains, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dependants of Suicide Compensated Railway Worker’s Death SYDNEY
Finding that Raymond Henry Donn. 38, truck driver, an employe of the N.S.W. Railway Commissioners, had committed suicide on May 4, last year,…
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