Sunday Train Ban Postponed for Week? Melbourne
The ban on Sunday trains which may be imposed by the Australian Railways Union will probably be postponed next Sunday and will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murray · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1947
873 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 44
Thefts of Motor Vehicles Increase Melbourne
A big increase in thefts of motor vehicles in Victoria during 1946. compared with the previous two years, is shown in a survey made today by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Sunday Train Ban? Melbourne
It is most unlikely that there will be a train stoppage in Victoria on Sunday. Meeting of sections of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Christmas Day Motor Fatality Former Deniliquin Resident Killed
Christmas Bay had a sad termination two motorists and their passengers when their cars met in a head-on collision near Tongala…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Die in Train Crash London
Five persons were killed, 15 were seriously injured and between 20 30 were slightly injured when a night mail [?] from Liverpool Street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl Fall From Train; Critically Hurt MELBOURNE
When she fell from the Horsham-Melbourne train at Deer Park this afternoon, Frances Osborne, aged 8 years, of Tr[?]mper st., Camberwell,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Breaks Leg in Train Fall Katoomba
Miss Beatrice Lowery, aged 65, of Hazelbrook, fractured her left leg when she fell in a space between the corridor of carriages of a train for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sunday Train Ban Still Holding Fire MELBOURNE
If is now expected that the ban on Sunday trains throughout Victoria will not operate for at least another fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sunday Train Stoppage Still Uncertain Melbourne
The ban on Sunday trains is still uncertain and it is expected that it will not operate next Sunday. The Australian Railways Union is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Warning of Unrest in Victorian Railways MELBOURNE
The State executive of the A.R.U. carried a resolution tonight protesting against Acting Chief Judge Drake-Brockman in granting double time for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Motor Vehicle Production Detroit
General Motors Corporation [?] cars and 306,430 trucks in the United States in 1946, which [?] of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Had First Ride in Train
The Yarrawonga Railway station presented an animated appearance on Tuesday morning when 12 local and district boys departed by train on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attacks Food Supplied by Railways “Leathery Meat, Soggy Pies, Unpalatable Sandwiches” Sydney
The failure of the railways to compete with other forms of transport had caused a deep feeling of disquiet among railway employes, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maintenance Of Developmental Roads
A suggestion that not only the capital cost, but also the maintenance of developmental roads should be borne by the Department of Main…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sunday Train Ultimatum Melbourne
A meeting of employes at the North Melbourne loco sheds today recommended to the Australian Railways Union executive and other unions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Austral Pictures "Road to Utopia" This Week-end "The Lodger" Next
Bing Crosby, Dob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, Paramount's comedy team of the "Road" pictures, such as "Road to Singapore" and "Road to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Albury P.P. Board Wants Victorian Railway Guage Extended
Because sheep sales were no longer held at Wodonga, said Mr J. F. Jelbart at a meeting of the Albury P.P. Board recently, trucking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Excursion Railway Travel
The Secretary for Railways, Mr S R Nicholas, announced today that arrangements had been made for excursion tickets to be issued for travell to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tojo Ordered Prisoners to Work on Burma Railway New York
The Tokio correspondent of United Press says that Lieut-General Wakamatsu, who was Vice-Minister for War, testifying at the war crimes trial today, said that General Tojo ordered war prisoners to labor on the construction of the Burma-Slam railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chlorine Gas Poisoning in Train Crash LONDON
Twenty-five persons were taken to hospital, some suffering from chlorine gas poisoning, when the Toulouse-Marseilles passenger train yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →