The Bridge
An old man going a lone highway, Came at the evening, cold and grey, To a chasm vast and deep and wide. The oW man crossed in the twilight,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1931
1,446 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 73
Attempted Train Wrecking
An express train narrowly escaped disaster near Katoomba early on Saturday morning, when the engine struck a crowbar which had been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Narrow Escape Continental Train VIENNA
An attempt to wreck the Ostend Vienna express was discovered in the nick of time to save a train carrying hundreds of passengers from plunging…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Fall. Saddle Slipped. Accident on Uralla Road
A serious accident occurred on the Uralla road this afternoon, as the result of which Sherlie Heron (15) was admitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Strikes Tram. Motorist Killed. Melbourne
When their car struck the side of an electric train at Essendon, Alfred McKean (40) was killed and Ronald Brown (34) seriously injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Brink of Disaster! Driver Saves Hundres of Lives. Attempt to Wreck Express Train. Vienna
An attempt to wreck the OstendVienna express was discovered in the nick of time to save the train, carrying hundreds of passengers, from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Novel Motorcycle Footrests An English Invention
A very novel idea for the use of spring footrests for motorcycles has been provisionally patented in England. It consists of a pair of spring…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motoring Party's Narrow Escape
A motoring party yesterday met with an extraordinary accident at the 10-mile peg on Yarrowyck road, That the members of the party escaped as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Strike Serious Proposal Wild Resolutions SYDNEY
A mass meeting of members of Australia's Railways Union decided in favor of a general strike as a protest against the ten per cent reduction in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Railway Men Talk General Strike Australian Women Appeal to Mr. Scullin Reasonable Request SYDNEY
A petition, addressed to the Prime Minister by the Australian Women's Guild of Empire, says: "The people are looking to you, do not desert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Strike. N.S.W. Railwaymen's Decision. State and Federal Governments Denounced. Sydney
A mass meeting of members of the Australian Railways Union decided in favour of a general strike as a protest against the ten…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railwaymen Decide on General Strike. Lady Houston. Air Under-Secretary's Scathing Denunciation. Schneider Cup Incident. London
Lady Houston's announcement that the paltry excuses of the Socialist Government, regarding the decision not to compete in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Midsummer Railway Excursions
Country people are given opportunity far cheap railway travel in a series of excursion trains which will run during the second week of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Accident. Miss. Jean McKENZIE KILLED
A fatal car accident happened at Inglewood on Sunday night, January 25th, which resulted in the death of Miss Jean McKenzie, only…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trams on the Bridge Cabinet's Decision SYDNEY
The State Cabinet has decided that when the Harbor Bridge has been completed trams will run across it. Two of the four sets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£12/14/- Fines, Costs and Expenses Motor Driver Convicted Rival Car-men at the Station
Before Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., in the local Police Court yesterday morning, Jas. Edwin O'Dell proceeded against John Encks on charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Summary of Yesterday's News Sydney, Monday. Ten persons Injured in Motor Smash—Thieves' £2600 Haul Recovered—Attempt to Wreck Express—English Swimmers'
Ten persons were injured, five seriously, when two motor cars collided at the corner of Livingstone Road and Sydneyham Road. One car…
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Yesterday morning, when Mr. R. J. O'Hallbran, solicitor, of Tamworth, was motoring to Glen Innes he was implicated in an accident. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Railway Picnic
It is estimated that there will be a very large attendance at the northern railway employees' picnic to be held on the Glen Innes showground…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yallaroi Shire Council Warialda-Yetman Road Reforms Proposed
The Yallaroi Council meeting, on Friday last was attended by Cr. F. Houston (president). Councillors W. Conway, V. Whiteman, G. H. M'Gee,…
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