Railway Crossing Smash Deniliquin Man Injured
When a goods train crashed into a tractor at the railway crossing a mile west of Berrigan, two men were seriously…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
859 stories in Murray's papers · page 42 of 43
Bandits Rob on Train
MELBOURNE, Sun.:After threatening two suburban train passengers with a pistol, robbing them of .money and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Train Service Murrumbidgee Supports Hay
The Murrumbidgee Shire Council, through its State members, will support the Hay Municipal Council in its campaign to have a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge Wanted to Replace Punt Representatives of Two Councils Confer
What was intended to be a conference of the Numurkah (Vic.) and Murray Shire Councils at Barham recently…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →“Male Tram Conductors Better Than Females”
MELBOURNE, Mon.: A Tramways Board representative told the Arbitration Court today that male tram conductors generally…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Increased Pay for Railwaymen
MELBOURNE; Mon.: Increases in penalty rates for time worked between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. were swarded railway workers by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Crew Blamed for Women’s Deaths
DETHOIT, Tues.: The driver and fireman of an express which was reported to have sucked three women to their deaths from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
Unnecessarily rapid acceleration when starting away wastes tyres as well as fuel, and causes mechanical wear. The speed which…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Corowa Municipal Council Ald. G. N. Eberle Re-elected Mayor Aerodrome Improvements Corowa Band to have use of Old Band Instruments
His Worship the Mayor (Ald. G. N. Eborle) presided over space meeting of the council which preceded the ordinary monthly meeting on Tuesday night last December 13, 1949 other present were Deputy Mayor M. H. Carrigg Aldermen T. C. Morris S. R. E…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Direct Action at Present by “Trammies”
MELBOURNE, Sun.: Five hundred tramway employes—a large proportion of whom were conductresses—decided at a mass…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hay Aerodrome
Several matters concerning the Hay Aerodrome were before the last Municipal Council meeting. Mr. B. Stevens wrote requesting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trains Going by Road
DARWIN, Mon.: Believed to be the only operation of its kind ever undertaken in Australia, four complete trains are being carried…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Shires Backed on Road Grant
SYDNEY, Mon.: The annual allocation of £846,000 to NSW from the petrol tax funds for expenditure on roads should be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Carrathool Shire General Rate Up to £94,000 Programme—£20,000 on By-Roads
CARRATHOOL Shire-Council on Wednesday approved a halfpenny increase in the general rate, bringing it to 3d. for 1950, and yielding, with the assistance of newly-adjusted leasehold values, £31,000, compared with £19,000 for 1949. Of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maude Bridge Refused Shire Will Seek To Interview Maritime Services Board —"They Must Be Human"
THE Maritime Services Board, after considering for some months Waradgery Shire's proposal to build a low-level timber bridge at Maude, to be removed should the Murrumbidgee ever be made navigable again, has refused. Council will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Border Squabble State Railways at Loggerheads
The Moama Municipal Council is enlisting support for Mr. J. A. Lawson, M.L.A., in his attempt to bring about reciprocal concessions…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Ban on Transport of Fruit
The Railway Department will not accept fruit and vegetables as freight by passenger train from the country to the metropolitan area or through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclists' Expensive Rides
Fines totalling £4, with 14/ court costs, were imposed upon William Appleton, of North, Albury, in Albury Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Train and Its Maker
The “Spirit of Fun” motor train, built by Mr. W. H. Sheppard, of Bank St., Wodonga at a cost of £150. It took three months to build…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wodonga Man Builds a Train
THREE and a half years ago, Mr W. H. Sheppard, of Bank street, Wodonga, had an idea of building a train for children and to travel around Australia with it. Parts however were difficult to…
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