Reliability Trials And Motor Sports
Last Sunday the Riverina Sporting Car and Motor Cycle Club held its first post-war outing, comprising a reliability trial during the morning and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
906 stories in Murray's papers · page 34 of 46
Proposed Cobram Tocumwal Railway
At the last meeting of the Cobram Progress Association a discussion took place regarding a proposed extension of the railway through Cobram to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bituminising Finley Road Matter Deferred Indefinitely
Following a conference of shires and the municipality concerning the bituminising of the Deniliquin-Finley Road, councillors asked the Town Clerk to submit a report on the possibilities of doing this work on the road by means of assistance in finance…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Electricity Along Finley Road Being Investigated— Considerable Delay
In reply to a question asked by Ald. Schmidt at the Municipal Council meeting on Tuesday night, Mr. A. J. Chant, Town Clerk, said report would be submitted to Council as soon as possible on the extension of electricity to consumers along the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deniliquin Motor Company Social Club
The inaugural meeting of the Deniliquin Motor Company Social Club was held at the Company's premises in Napier Street last week, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wants Motor Registration Fee Increased SYDNEY
The Main Roads Board had asked for an increased motor registration tax because its development fund was bankrupt, said the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Full Mail Train and Sleeping Car Services SYDNEY
Full mail train and sleeping car services will be restored in the NSW railways within a few weeks, it was stated today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damage to Roads by Military Traffic Commonwealth Should Help Finance Repairs
A proposal that the Federal Government should meet the cost of repairs to secondary roads which were damaged by military traffic,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →31 Believed Killed in Train Collision LONDON
It is reported from Bezwada that 31 persons are believed to have been killed and injured when the Madras-Calcutta mail train was derailed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposed New Bridge Over Murray Mayor Returns From Melbourne; Sees CRB
On his return from Melbourne last evening, the Mayor (Ald. Bunton) spoke confidently of the success of the Wodonga-Albury deputation (of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All Melbourne Trams May Stop Tie-up by Powerhouse Men Melbourne
In the event of a 24-hour stoppage by Newport powerhouse employes, the public would be given ample warning, the State secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Red Gains on Railway New York
The Peiping correspondent of American Associated Press states that Communist guerrilla forces that penetrated to within four miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Crowd at Speedway See Rocket Motor Bikes London
Eighty-five thousand—equal to the world’s record for a speedway attendance—turned up at Wembley to see the first rocket-assisted motor-cycle,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melbourne Will Also Be Without Trams Other Unionists Also To Stop Work MELBOURNE
Surprise decision of tramway employes to join the railway workers in the 24-hour strike on Monday means that those of Melbourne’s million citizens without cars will have to walk or hitch-hike to their jobs tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Trains to or From Melbourne and Albury Today Spirit Remaining Here Until Tuesday Morning 25,000 Victorian Railway Workers In 24 Hours’ Stoppage MELBOURNE
Yesterday’s decision by the Victorian Council of the Australian Railways Union to call a 24 hour strike of all Victorian railway services from 1.30 a.m. Monday, to 1.30 a.m. Tuesday, will affect all suburban and country train services in addition to interstate expresses…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Plays “House” Games
For the first time since the outbreak of war. Railway Club yesterday held a “house” cup competition. Forty members look part, and enjoyed a picnic lunch…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Some Country Railway Lines to Be Electrified Sydney
Outlining the railway works programme in NSW for the current financial year, the Premier (Mr McKell) said last night that future plans…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain Sells “Railway of Death” to Siam London
Britain has agreed to sell to Siam the notorious “Railway of Death” linking Burma and Siam which was built by British and Australian prisoners of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Full Train Service Soon? Sydney
There is every possibility that country mail train services will be restored to six a week at the end of the month. At present, only three run…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paddling Their Own Canoe From Gundagai to Murray Bridge
Leaving Gundagai about mid-September on his 7000 miles canoe journey down the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers to South Australia,…
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