Graphic Story of Fatal Train Derailment SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 3
Four persons, including a woman, were killed and 19 others were injured when the South-West Mail train was derailed near Harden, 237 miles from Sydney, at 5 a.m. to-day. With many passengers asleep, the engine left the rails and…
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The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 1
Due to coal shortage, train services to and from Deniliquin are again restricted. Trains leave Deniliquin for Melbourne on Mondays Wednesdays Fridays…
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The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 4
Three of the people killed in the train smash near Harden on Wednesday were Riverina residents. They were:…
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Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 7
The course chosen for Saturday, although longer, is not nearly as hard as the one ridden last week. Starting at 2.15 on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rubbish Dumped on Shire Roads Offenders To Be Prosecuted
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 1
At last week's meeting of Culcairn Shire Council, the inspector was instructed to prosecute any persons found using roads in the shire as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Walla Man's Ordeal On Road! Near Burrumbuttock
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 3
A man spent eight hours on the roadside near Burrumbuttock, drenched to the skin and with a broken leg, until 7 a.m. on Tuesday. He is Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →F. Killed in S.W. Mail Train Smash. Hay Passenger Injured
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 2
FOUR people were killed and nineteen injured in a [?] involving the South-West Mail, on when a number of passengers for Hay wear travelling, near Galong, early on…
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The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 3
What is regarded as the worst railway accident in the past 20 old years occurred near Harden an Wednesday morning last, by which four…
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Border Morning Mail · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 8
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Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 14
The State Government’s action in cancelling week-end electric trains and curtailing others showed its incompetence to meet critical situations and proved that no real plans had been made to. meet…
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Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 3
WAGGA, Sunday : A Wagga man was fatally Injured when the car in which he was a passenger crashed Into a bridge on…
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The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 1
Further train restrictions have been imposed on the Melbourne-Deniliquin line, the Deniliquin stationmaster (Mr. Knight) advises…
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The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 3
Take a little care lest you take a little life driver Night time double traffic troubles; double your caution says the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Residents Want Action on Overhead Bridge
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 11
The need for immediately widening the pavement at the Young street end of the overhead bridge linking Dean street and East Albury, and eventually straightening the structure so as to eliminate…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Train Smash. Berrigan Passengers Escape Injury
The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 1
In the-early hours of of Wednesday morning last, the engine of the southwest mail train, which serves Berrigan and other district centres, jumped…
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Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 3
A woman, aged 28, was arrested today as a trainload of troops was preparing to leave .Adelaide for Perth, and was later charged with having unlawfully worn an Army uniform. It was alleged that 18 months that she was a divorcee, and that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Centenary of Famous Railway Station
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 1
The centenary of Waterloo station, London, was celebrated recently. The celebrations included a 1903 engine which drew into platform. 15, and from which stepped a man and a woman dressed in costumes of the early 1900’s. They drove away in a car which was more than 40 years old. Photo shows: The two costumed passengers; driver of the engine, Percy Cox, raising his hat; he…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 6
Killed in a motor accident at Keilor on Saturday was Mr Jack Frazer, well-known in this district as sales manager for Neal’s…
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Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 6
K. Day, winner of the Riverina Sporting Car and Motor Cycle Club’s Dux Trial, negotiating the observed section at the top of Splitter’s Creek Hill on Sunday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →50,000 Railwaymen to Miss Picnics This Year
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 5
SYDNEY, Tues.: The Australian Railways Union will protest to the Railways Commissioner (Mr Hartigan) against…
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