Railway Chiefs Consider Single Gauge Adelaide
Commonwealth and State railway authorities conferring in Adelaide following the recent meeting of the Australian Railways War Council, are…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Turned Potential Profit Into Loss Coal Strike and Railways SYDNEY
Speaking at the Millions Club to-day the assistant Commissioner for Railways (Mr. F. C. Garside) said N.S.W. Railways account showed a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shire Council. Report on Future Road Works
The Shire Engineer (Mr O.. F. Dixon), reported as follows to the [?] meeting of the Berrigan Shire Council:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tearing Through Hill to Make a Road
[?] a road has a kink in it straighten it out! This is the new policy of the Main Roads Board. With modern machinery it tears roads through hills, gouging huge boulders from the earth. A gang is now working on the Howlong road at the rear of the sports ground, culling a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Safety Move
The move being made by the Albury Boy Scouts to form the first junior section of the Road Safety Council of N.S.W. is one that may have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burma Road Agreement Tokio, July 17
Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, and the Foreign Minister (Mr. [?]) have reached a final settlement of the Burma…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Important Railway Completed Baghdad, July 17
A railway which will connect Turkey and Iraq has been completed. The first train will be run to-day from Baghdad to Haidapasha, on the Asiatic side of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stones on Railway line
About half an hour before the mail train was due to pass the spot en route to Sydney, a railways ganger discovered a pile of medium-sized…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An Aeroplane Adventure
The day was cold and stormy. I began to take my morning walk to the nurses headquarters. On arriving at the office I was informed that a sister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burma Road Agreement
An announcement by the Japanese foreign Office that Britain and Japan lad reached agreement regarding the transport of supplies to China over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Churchill on Burma Road Agreement London, July 18
In the House of Commons to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) made a statement on the Burma road agreement with Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →25-Mile Road Race. Percy Hussey First and Fastest
Superior strength and cycling ability enabled Percy Hussey (8 min.) to snatch a last minute victory from “Bing” Langman in the long race conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents Still Wrecking Homes. (Issued by Road Safety Council)
In three days last week seven children were rendered fatherless because if road accidents. Here we have painful corroboration of the fact that road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain and Japan Temporary Agreement Over Burma Road LONDON
The announcement by the Japanese Foreign Office that Britain and Japan had reached an agreement regarding the transport of supplies to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Action Assailed Closing of Burma Road Chinese Are Bitter London, July 18
It has been officially confirmed that Britain and Japan have reached an agreement for the temporary closing of the Burma road for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Men Killed When Truck and Tram Collide Brisbane
Two men were killed and 11 people slightly injured in a head on collision between a motor truck and a tram at Kelvin Grove, a Brisbane suburb…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stones on Railway Line
About half an hour before the mail train was due to pass the spot on route to Sydney, a railways ganger discovered a pile of medium-sized…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Secret Session Burma Road Decision LONDON, July 19
A secret session of the House of Lords will be held next Wednesday to discuss the Burma Road agreement with Japan, by which the transit of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victim of Alleged Hit-run Motorist Sydney
Allegedly the victim of a hit-run motorist, Victor Mouloe, aged 35, single, of Manly, was found with his skull badly fractured lying in a pool of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railwaymen Soldiers To be Farewelled
The A.R.U. Women’s Auxiliary has decided to give railwaymen who have enlisted from Albury an evening and make them a presentation, before…
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