The Train Service a Hopeless Muddle
When it was announced last week that country train services would have to be curtailed, people in outback areas were prepared for some…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
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Curtailment Of N.S.W. Train Services
A copy of the new official time-tables of N.S.W. Railways is to -hand, indicating the curtailment of services. The time-tables may be seen at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Road Mix-up 'Horse and Car Involved
On Wednesday morning last an accident occurred on the Yarrawonga road, in Victoria, by which a horse and a motor car were both badly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorists Had Been Warned
Three men were fined in the Wodonga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for having driven their cars in Victoria without having taken out an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring in Wartime Charcoal Supplies
In several country centres charcoal supplies have been greatly improved since saw[?]illers have come Into this field. It has been proved that timber,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Station Hold-up Sydney
The recurrence of the wave of railway station hold-ups which affected Sydney a few weeks ago, occurred tonight, when three young men, armed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Tram Services How They Affect the Riverina
Curtailment of railway services on the great southern line of NSW and network, which begins 011 Monday, has not affected the southern portion of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How the Commandos Train
The commandos—the shock troops of the British Army—have been in action again. Here are some of them carrying out an assault exercise with the flat-bottomed landing craft which have been used so successfully in the raids on the Norwegian coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motorists Urged to Use Substitute Fuels
"Australia must be prepared for an even more restrictive rationing basis than exists at present," said the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasely) in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ban the Motor Horn MELBOURNE
As a member of the Advisory War Council and of the transport section of the ARP Council, Major Maltby. MLA. speaking at Geelong today urged a ban on the use of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Alterations
We have been handed a pamp[?] by the Secretary for railways which shows that in respect to the general curtailment of train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Burma Road" Interrupted
Pride of the Hume shire and centre of the fiercest controversy that ever raged in local government circles in the Riverina, the famous "Burma…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Closed to Stock
Drovers of stock between Wodonga and Albury will no longer be able to Choose between alternative routes. At yesterday's meeting of Wodonga Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Train Us,” Say Britain’s Youngsters
The Air Training Corps is now a world-wide organisation. When 300,000 British boys were called up for. registration recently, most of them demanded that they be given training in the ATC that would fit them to become members of the crews of RAF machines. In the top picture some of them we seen lining, up at an ATC registration office…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Potential Death Trap” Wodonga Council and Railway Crossing
The constant Inconvenience and potential danger of the railway crossing in Home St., Wodonga, were brought under the notice of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Servicemen“ Play Up” on Trams MELBOURNE
Placing of military police on St Kilda trams during the week-ends to maintain order, has been sought by the chairman of the Tramways Board (Mr Bell). This action…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rabbit Skins by Goods Train
The traffic in rabbit skins has developed to such an extent during recent months that the NSW tail ways are unable to provide any longer for their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Concrete Sleepers Are Being Made by Women for Britain's Railways
Concrete sleepers are being tried out to replace some of the 3.000,000 timber sleepers which railway in Great Britain need each year to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorists Urged to Use Substitute Fuels
“Australia must be prepared for an. even -more restrictive rationing basis than exists at present”, said the Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasley) urging…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aerodrome at Balranald
Mr. J. J. Clark, M.P. for Darling has received the following letter from the Minister for Air (The Hon. A. S. Drakeford):—"I acknowledge your…
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