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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1935

2,233 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 112

Mongogarie Creek Bridge

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 3

Members of the Cherry Tree Progress Association have decided to make representations to the Tomki Shire Council for the erection of a…

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Special Fruit Train

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 2

Consignments of bananas by the special fruit train from Murwillumbah on Friday were:-- To Sydney: Murwillumbah 772 cases,…

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Bridge Replaces Golf Ballina

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 6

Instead of playing golf on Wednesday, the associates of the Ballina Golf club will hold a bridge tournament in the club house. The…

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Germans Reintroduce Tolls System Concrete Roads For Heavy Loads BERLIN

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 4

While every other country in the world is freeing the highways of tolls, Germany is reintroducing the toll system to provide for the cost…

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Fatal Smash In Road Race Driver and Mechanic Dashed to Death Melbourne

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 7

Bounding into the air when travelling at 100 miles an hour in the Cowes 300-Miles Motor Road Race to-day, and M.G. Midget, driven by G. Graham, with J. Peters as mechanic, overturned and both men were killed…

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Little Girl Hurt Struck by Motor Gar

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 3

BRUNSWICK HEADS, Tuesday:-- Ruth Lawrence, aged 3, of Bungalow, was knocked down by a car to-day, while playing in tall grass on the…

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Fatal Crash Motor Fell 30 Feet SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 6

T. Fisher, a farmer of Eumungerie, near Dubbo, was killed and two others were seriously injured when a motor car crashed into a bridge and fell 30…

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Car Over Bridge Old Man Killed

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday:- Thomas P. Fisher (68) was killed and J. Terry seriously injured when their car crashed through a bridge at Coalboggie Crick…

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Train Derailed Narrow Escape SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 5

A piece of heavy timber lying across the permanent way is believed to have caused the derailment of an engine, tender and 10 trucks of a goods train…

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Attempted to Jump From Bridge Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 5

As J. Paxton, of Redfern, was walking across the Harbour bridge this morning he saw a man about to slide from the suicide prevention fence…

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Spare the Tree Dozens Felled on Ballina Road

Northern Star · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 4

Travellers using the road from Lismore to Ballina during the holidays have noticed a few miles from Lismore a marked change in the roadside…

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WRECKED By Children Western Goods Train Smash Near Darling Harbor

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday:- Irresponsible children wrecked the main Western goods train this evening near Darling Harbor…

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Trams Collide Two Injured in Brisbane

Tweed Daily · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday:- Two passengers were injured, though not seriously, when two trams collided in Brisbane this morning. The two…

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Track Torn Up Derailment of Goods Train

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

Whilst travelling from South Grafton to Casino, a goods train, com[?]rising a water tank and four trucks of ashes, jumped the tracks between…

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Fair Bridge Farm Great Experiment Orphans and Waifs Get Chance

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 6

The news that while the Premier, Sir Stanley Argyle is on a visit to Western Australia, he will investigate the work and conditions at the…

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Seven to Resuce Fall From Bridge a Ballina Adventure Ballina

Northern Star · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 6

Falling from a safety zone on the East Ballina bridge this morning, Arthur Marsh, 8 years of age, was rescued after six…

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Railway Excursions. Another This Month

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

Following closely upon the very extensive series of excursions which served all parts of the State during December, the Department of…

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Washed Away in Flooded Stream Motorists' Experience

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 6

Mr. C. A. Howard and his son-in-law, Mr. Len Palmer, both of Grafton (relates the "Daily Examiner") had a miraculous escape last…

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Motor Car's Plunge

Northern Star · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 6

THE CAR owned by Mr. Lymbery, which plunged into the Richmond River about three miles from Woodburn. The car is being raised by a pile driving outfit…

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"Concertina" Gangway. Italian Motor Train

Tweed Daily · Saturday 5 January 1935 · page 7

Intended for making trips through the Italian Alps, a type of articulated motor coach "train" was built and tested recently. It consists of two…

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