To Revive Albury Road Safety Branch
By arrangement between Albury and Hume Councils, a meeting will be called shortly to re-form the Albury branch of the Road Safety Council,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
611 stories in Murray's papers · page 14 of 31
Loss of £400,000 on Harbor Bridge. Sydney
A loss of £400,000 over four years operations on the Sydney Harbor bridge is revealed in the Auditor-General’s report. The Acting Premier (Mr Baddeley) stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bridge Blown Up In Syria Several Killed in Clashes LONDON
The railway bridge between Aleppa and Hama was destroyed today by an explosion, reports Reuter’s correspondent at Dama[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Examine Railways Standardisation Plan CANBERRA
The Minister for Transport tonight indicated that Sir Harold Clapp’s recommendation of Australia’s railway gauges might be modified…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Water Supply At Railway Tank Department Unable to Pump Larger Quantities
At a meeting of the Henty branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, held in the School of Arts on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£3 Million to Electrify Railways SYDNEY
Included in tile NSW ‘Government’s big post-war railway plans was the electrification of Sydney-Newcastle line at an estimated cost of £3,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fale From Tram. Melbourne
Douglns Brown, aged 10. of Beech St., Caulfield who fell from a tram In Hawthorn road, Caulfield on Friday night, sucsumbed to his injuries today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wartime Road Deaths in Britain 42,556 LONDON
Roads deaths in Britain during the war averaged 20 daily, says the Ministry for War Transport. Road deaths since the outbreak to the end of April,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another Cattle Train
A further cattle train will leave Wodonga on Tuesday for northern, areas and dairy men wishing to send cattle by this train are asked to contact Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proposed Hay-ouyen Railway Proposal Threatened by Clapp
The Hay Municipal Council on Tuesday, decided after very little discussion, to support the view of the Walpeup Council, Ouyen Council, that the Hay-Ouyen rail link should be built in preference to the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Pilfering
SYDNEY, Friday: Pilfering in New South Wales now averages about £300,000 a year. Most of the stolen goods, detectives believe, are sold on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Looting On Railways Reaching Amazing Dimensions SYDNEY
Goods to the value of £250,000 a year which are being looted from the NSW railways arc sold on the black market at up to five times…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Tennis Club’s Scratch Match To-day
The Railway Tennis Club will conduct a scratch match on the railway tennis courts today and the following players have been selected:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Bridge Inventions That Helped Beat Germany
Two bridging devices invented by the British are shown in the above pictures. Top : First picture of British Army’s new self-propelled “Scissors” bridge. At Roosendaal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Fall From Electric Train SYDNEY
T. M. Clarke, need 52. of Pennant’s Hill, was killed instantly tonight when he fell from an electric train about 300 yards after It had left Central Station. Trams were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Brothers Killed Car Struck by Train MELBOURNE
As a sedan car was crossing the [?] Gully railway at Bayswater at 10 a.m. today it was struck by art electric train and cut in two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Pilfering
Pilfering in New South Wales now averages about £300,000 a year Most of the stolen goods, detectives believe, are sold on the black…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Derailed 22 Injured on Riverina Express
SYDNEY, Friday: Twenty Two Persons were injured, including the driver and the fireman, when the Riverina Express, was derailed two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Progress in N.borneo Aussies' Using Bridge-laying Tanks Brunei Bay, Thurs. A.A.P.
Despite a stiffening of resistance Australian troops invading British North Borneo continue to hurl back the Japanese defences, and in an 8…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Standard Motors To Be Manufactured in Australia
SYDNEY, Friday: The manufacture of motor cars in Australia is to be undertaken by the Standard Motor Co. Ltd., of Coventry, England…
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