Railway Fettler’s Fatal Fall Tamworth
Believed either to have jumped 30 feet to the ground when he saw a train approaching or to have slipped and fallen. John Michael Foster aged…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
906 stories in Murray's papers · page 26 of 46
Albury Players Asked to Train To-day
All players of the Albury club are requested to take advantage of the half holiday this afternoon and report for practice at the sports ground at 4 o’clock. Now…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr Chifley Cannot Help Overcome Railways Coal Problem Sydney
The Prime Minister told union leaders today he was unable to divert more coal to give better railway services in NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ammunition Explosion On Train BRISBANE
A story of a fire in a goods train which caused ammunition in a military wagon attached to the train to explode, was told in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways May Not be Able to Handle Wheat SYDNEY
Unless supplies of railway coal are [?] augmented in the next few months, [?] railways may not be able to handle [?] the wheat Australia proposes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British “Tramp” Plane New York
The Montreal correspondent of the New-York “Times” says that a two-engined Bristol freighter, which is the first post-war British civil plane to visit America…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia Needs Thousands Of Motors
Progress towards the re-establishment of the division of Australia’s automobile industry covering the assembling and selling of new motor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Interested in Road Safety Poster Competition
Inspector A. Yardy, Mr T. R. M. Sloane, District Inspector of Schools, the Mayor (Aid. Bunton) and Mr H. Hunt, headmaster of the Albury Public School, taken on the school steps after; the inspector and Mayor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Use of Saleyard's Money Ald Edwards Objects to Road Construction
At the June meeting of the Municipal Council, it was decided that Harfleur-street leading to the saleyards be reconstructed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Speedy Road Trasp0rt of 1000 Ewes, Lambs
Five double-decker sheep transport trucks on Monday shifted 1000 merino ewes and lambs from Harefield, north of Wagga, to Deniliquin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R.N. Rating Jumps From Train and Escapes SYDNEY
As the Brisbane express slowed down near the Hawkesbury river at 8 o’clock this morning a Royal Navy rating being brought to Sydney under escort leaped…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Donation For Boat Club From Deni. Motor Company
A meeting of the Deniliquin, Boating Club was held in the council Chambers on Monday night when Mr T. Hetherington (President) presided…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tram Conductor to Pay Passenger £125 Compensation SYDNEY
Judge Shortland, at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today, ordered a tram conductor to pay £125 compensation to a passenger lie assaulted at Gladesville…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Reds Blamed for Train Ambush Peiping
Fifty armed Chinese ambushed a coal train on the Peiping-Mukden railroad, with detonated charges, which derailed the engine and eight cars…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Killed; Truck Crashes Into Tram MELBOURNE
John Wood, aged 59. of Chapel St., South Yarra, was killed instantly when the truck he was driving crashed into a tram in Bridge road, Richmond, early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Same Motorists Called ‘Criminal Fools” SYDNEY
“Criminal fools” who blackened the reputation of decent motorists in the eyes of the public were condemned by the president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Demand for More Coal for Railways Sydney
A demand for sufficient coal to meet full railway requirements in Australia was made today at a meeting of the State Council of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist Critically Injured KATOOMBA
Early last night a young man was critically injured when the motor cycle he was riding hit loose gravel. It caused the rider, Wilfred Bernard Rushden, aged 21…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Killed by Train Melbourne
Douglas Moore Morpeth, aged 45, of Hozart st.. St. Kilda, was killed instantly when struck by a train near Elsternwick station this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Crashes Into Wooden Shed GOULBURN
Travelling through Murray’s [?] a small railway siding several miles on the Sydney side of [?] about [?] today, the Cooma mail [?]…
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