Man far trial after train death
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The City Coroner (Mr. Forrest), today committed for trial Colin Frederick Canham, 23, on a charge…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
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“Motorists will gain £5½ million a year”
SYDNEY, Fri.: Cuts in petrol and oil prices will save Australian motorists about £5,500,000 a year. The State Prices Ministers’ conference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy train drivers set detectives a problem
SYDNEY, ,Sun.: Three young boys who drove an unattended electric train up and down a 500 yards loop…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Train Wrecked by Mine
PARIS, Mon.: Thirty casualties were caused when. a mine exploded under an express train on the Hanoi-Haiphong line…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conargo Shire Jottings Bridge Repairs
At its meeting on Thursday Conargo Shire Council decided that the engineer (Mr. W. H. Ware) should inspect the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wants Road Into Property
Towong engineer will investigate a request for a road by Mr. T. J. Kirk, of Tallangatta, into his property at the Cascade…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Transport Of Finley Road Children To School
The Conargo Shire Council some time ago endeavoured without success to obtain an additional bus service to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Politics and the Railways
The State's biggest business, the Government Railways, has been in the public eye recently and the centre of political…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two railwaymen killed
SYDNEY, Mon. : Two railway fettlers were killed instantly today when they were struck by the Central-West…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor trader’s conference at Albury will hear address by Transport Minister
Motor Traders’ Association of Australia annual conference in Albury from July 23-25, will be addressed by the N.S.W. Minister for Transport (Mr, C. E. Martin), and other representatives of his department…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Motoring Pars and Personalities
Preston Motors Pty Ltd. report a demand for rear reflectors. It has principally come from Victorian owners, but numbers of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bitter attacks on Govt. road restrictions
MELBOURNE, Wed.: “We stand at the crossroads to abundance and to economic ruin, and I am very much afraid we are going…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nimmie Creek Bridge Tenders
The Department of [?] has notified the Waradgery Shire Council that tenders for repairs to the Nimmie Creek bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fog nearly blots out Harbor Bridge
Ferry, plane and shipping- services were paralysed for hours the other day by a heavy, grey fog which blotted out Sydney.and many suburbs. Hundreds of dock workers were stranded for more than two hours and thousands of others were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shire Engineer Reports on Road Improvements
Culcairn Shire Engineer (Mr. A. W. [?]), reporting to Monday's meeting, told councillors of numerous improvements that have been carried out on district roads throughout the shire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Vic. railways to extra money
MELBOURNE, Thurs.; The railways will seek an extra £1,383,000 from the State Government’s loan programme for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor cyclists to aid Wodonga Hospital
North-eastern centre of the Motor Cyclists’ Club of Victoria will sponsor a programme thrills to raise funds-for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motor traders meet here next week
The motor traders’ conference to be held in Albury on Thursday. Friday and Saturday of next week promises to be a very important…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wants relief of railway’s indebtedness
SYDNEY. Fri.: The NSW Railways Department should be relieved of its capital indebtedness, the Minister for Transport (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huge factory fire paralyses Sydney’s railway sevices
SYDNEY, Fri.: A huge fire, which tonight destroyed a four-storey factory in Redfern, paralysed Sydney’s rail transport for nearly three hours…
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