Electrification of Railways
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Country railway lines will be electrified as far as Nowra, Goulburn, Lithgow and Newcastle, under the State Government's…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
611 stories in Murray's papers · page 24 of 31
Masked Man in Vicious Attack Two Railwaymen Felled With Iron Bars SYDNEY
Attacking the assistant stationmaster and a porter with iron bars at Fairfield railway station at 3.30 o’clock this morning, two masked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Night Train Travelling Albury People at a Disadvantage
Why are Albury people refused permission to travel on the night express trains to Sydney? An answer to this question was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Iran Buys American Railway Stock Teheran
The newspaper “Iran” reports that [?] agreement has been made with the United States for the purchase by Iran of railway rolling stock and installations which were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Had No Railway Ticket
William Cornford, laborer, aged 27, of Rutherglen, was fined £1, in default 10 days, when he was before Albury court yesterday on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →News and Notes Inter-State Motor Traffic
The Premier (Hon. W. J. McKell) announces that his colleague, the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) has arranged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →P.o.w. Welcomed at Benalla Railway Station
There was a very large crowd of townspeople at the Benalla railway station when members of the patriotic Committee and Red Cross served hot meals to the POW. They were given a very warm welcome…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Manpower Position MELBOURNE
No new developments have occurred in the manpower position at the railways, which, it is thought may disturb Sunday train services in the near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →24 Killed in Train Smash LUNEBURG
Twenty-six persons were killed and 73 were injured yesterday when the first express from Cologne to Hanover since the end of the war was involved in an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railwaymen in Victoria Concerned Lack of Coal Threat to Jobs . MELBOURNE
The Australian Railways Union in Victoria will seek greater independence of NSW. coal unless action is taken to ensure greater continuity of supply…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pilfering From Railway Yards Heavy Fines for Trespassers
Although he admitted that high railway officials in NSW were concerned at the extensive pilfering of tobacco and cigarettes from rail…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Surplus of £544,903 Interest Absorbs 89 per cent of Railways’ Profits
During the year ended June 30 last, NSW railways showed a profit of £6,903,928. It was equal to a return of 4.52 per cent, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Threat by Railway Porters MELBOURNE
Railway porters decided at meetings in Melbourne today not to work two consecutive Sundays In future. and demanded an Increase In staff…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tooth Train Met by Red Cross Members
Four years ago Albury Red Cross members started visiting hospital trains going through and giving the patients fruit, cigarettes, ice cream, papers and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waradgery Shire Council New Road Plants—immunisation Approved—maude Bridge Revived
At the monthly meeting of the Waradgery Shire Council on Thursday, it was reported that one new road plant had come to hand and a second plant was due soon. The Minister for Health wrote giving approval for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Stock Bridge at Last?
A correspondent signing himself “Davidson Street,” writes to the “P.T.”: “Every summer for the past 30 odd years I have suffered the dust and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aerodromes for Country Mr. Clark's Appeal Hay Aerodrome Mentioned By Waradgery Shire
In the Commonwealth Parliament, in the consideration of the Civil Aviation Estimates, the Member for Darling, Mr. J. J…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Public Meeting at Hay Irrigation for Hay ADVOCATED.—7ft Weir Sought—munitions Factory—aerodrome
At a public meeting called by the Mayor and held in the War Memorial Hall of Friday evening last, the question of large scale irrigation was the main topic of discussion along with the question of the use that the Hay Munitions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fight with 10ft. Carpet Snake Man's Struggle Near Bogan Road
Mr. Malvern Spicer, well-known bus company employee, recently had a desperate fight with a ten-foot carpet, snake, which attacked…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germans Killed 897 on British Railways LONDON
A total of 897 people were killed and 4379 were seriously injured on British railways through enemy action during the war. This was revealed in a rail report…
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