German Army Train Derailed Execution of Frenchmen Follow LONDON, April 21
The German occupation authorities in Paris have announced that a last train reserved for the German army was derailed on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murray · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1942
676 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 34
Serious Train Curtailments
Our business columns contain a definite warning from the Commissioner for Railways. Mr. T. J. Hartlgan, that an from Sunday May 3…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Windouran Council Road Programme Cut
The president (Cr, G. T. Lyons and ] Crs. A.P. Edmunds, W.Preistly, T.C. Macaw, A. J. Symons and [?] R. Metcalfe attended Windouran Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Train Curtailments to Operate From Sunday May 3
Our business columns contain a definite warning from the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. T. J. Hartigan), that on and from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Widow Awarded £2094 Damages Sequel to Road Fatality MELBOURNE
Arising out of the death of her husband in an accident on the Geelong road at Brooklyn on July 14. 1941, Mrs Dorothy [?]Mavis Beasley, of werribee, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Super Not Carried by Railways” SYDNEY
The Railway Department was refusing to accept superphosphates as freight on the Albury to Henty and branch lines, said the Leader of the Opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How the Burma Road Looks :: People Who Built the Road
Left : Looking down on the Burma Road. A Japanese airman's view of the Burma Road, twisting and turning on a series of ridges along the mountains of Yunnan Province. At points in the road, a driver can look down and see seven layers of the same road wind down…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"100,000 Can Yearly Going Off Roads" SYDNEY
The falling-off in motor vehicle registrations, which is proceeding at the present at the rate of nearly [?] 000 a year in NSW, will be greatly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Acetylene Gas As Motor Fuel
Acetylene gas is being so widely used as a substitute fuel in Switzerland that at a recent motor show in Zurich seven types of generator units for this gas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Struggle on Tram; Airman's Leg Broken "Do Not Like Fellows in Uniform" MELBOURNE
At the Pra[?] Court today, Martin John Moloney, aged [?]of Tlvoll road South Yarra, was committed for [?]on charge of assault…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four Killed; 400 HURT Underground Train Crash New York, April 27
Four persons were Killed. 400 were Injured and others trapped in a smoke filled tunnel of the B[?]dson river tube railway. 75 fell below, at the Exchange Place…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cyclist Awarded £1500 MELBOURNE
The case in which Craig Frederick Thomas Kennedy, butcher's assistant, of Autumn street, Geelong West, took action in the First Civil Court against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Train Curtailment
Our business columns contain a definite warning from the commissioner for Railways, Mr T. Hartigan, that on and from Sunday, 3rd…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tube Railway Crash Motorman Arrested for Man[?] Slaughter. New York, April 27
Five are now dead as a result of the train collision in the tube railway under the Hudson river, at Exchange place station. The crash is described as the worst…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Desperate Fighting in Burma Road “At Point of Being Lost” LONDON, April 29
With Lashio aflame and Japanese ground forces reported to be within 60 miles of the town the Battle for the Burma Road has reached its most critical point, and according to the “Daily Telegraph” military expert, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australians Building Strategic Railway JERUSALEM, April 29
Australians and South Africans are among the engineers who, aided by thousands of natives, are breaking records in laying a strategic railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Aerodrome Desired for Hay Representations by the Mayor
At Monday night's meeting of the May Municipal Council a letter was received from the Minister for Air, Mr. Drakeford who wrote to Mr. J…
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