Award for Bailey Bridge Inventor London
The Royal Commission on awards has recommended an award of £12,000 to Sir Donald Bailey, who invented the Bailey bridge, which the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
873 stories in Murray's papers · page 29 of 44
Killed by Train Albury Man’s Death; Evidence At Inquest
For some weeks before his death, [?]1-year-old Kenneth Morrow, Albury bread-carter, suffered from apparent lapses of memory. Evidence to this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →History — and Roads — in the Making
Two power grader are at present in action on roads within the municipality. The are on loan from Windouran and Conargo Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Train To S.A. Tonight SYDNEY
Because of the shortage of coal in SA there will be no connecting trains from Melbourne to Adelaide for South Australian passengers leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Henty to Meet Albury Blues Special Train Running
Henty visits Albury next Sunday for the last game of the competition before the semi-finals. Although neither side can make the "Four," they…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Open Finding by Albury Coroner Young, Man Killed By Train
Returning an open finding at the adjourned inquest yesterday into the death of Kenneth Morrow, who was struck and killed by a train, on July…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stawell Motorist Fined at Albury
James Monaghan of Stawell (Vic) did not [?] in Albury court yesterday to answer a charge of having on May 2 last parked on a bus stop in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?] Record of Road Fatalities
Police figures from January to May of this year told a grim story of death and injury on all highways, said a letter from RACV headquarters read at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →City Without Trams—buses Burnie
No trams or buses ran in Launceston today because of a dispute over a penalty imposed on a conductor for failing [?] punch a ticket correctly,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian Railways Facing Big Deficit MELBOURNE
The concluding stages were reached today in the application before the Arbitration Court of the Australian Railways Union. Amalgamated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four Killed When Explosion Derails Train LONDON
Four passengers were killed and 20 were injured when an explosion between Delhi and Bhatinda derailed two carriages of a special train which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy’s 40 Ft. Fall From Bridge SYDNEY
Robert Beck, aged 12, of Lavender Bay fell 40 feet from the Harbor Bridge to the footpath while looking for bird nests this afternoon. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →17 Die in British Train Smash Carriages Smashed To Matchwood LONDON
Seventeen persons were killed, including one child, and at least seventy others were injured when the London-Leeds express ran into the rear of another train near the Doncaster station yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deniliquin Berrigan Main Road
The engineer of the Main Roads Department (Mr. Blanket) attended Friday's meeting of Conargo Shire Council. He supplied information…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fell Beneath Train and Rilled Sydney
John Douglas, aged 37. a furrier, Coogee, was killed when he fell beneath a train at Auburn this afternoon. The train had to be jacked up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Asserts Country Train Services Getting Worse SYDNEY, Monday
Country train services had deteriorated on what they were 40 years ago, the president of the NSW Farmers and Settlers’ Association (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fireman’s Story of Train Disaster London
One woman and two of the men who were among the 18 killed in the train disaster near Don caster, when the London-Leeds express crashed into a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thousands Seek Motor Vehicles Sydney
During July there were 22,387 potions for new motor vehicles and due to shortage 21,099 if them had to be deferred, said the acting Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Beating the Bridge
In a recent [?] the [?] recorded at a country flour [?] of a very large quantity of wheat delivered to the mill were questioned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Killed in Fall From Train Melbourne
William Swarbrick, aged 57, of Maron st., Perth, was killed when he fell between the platform and the Overland express at Serviceton this morning…
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