£275,000 PRORAMME New Carriages For N.S.W Railways
SYDNEY, Thursday:- It was announced to-night that the Railway Commissioner (Mr. Hartigan) had approved of a building programme to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
1,866 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 94
Open Column Roads to Farms (To the Editor.)
Sir,--With reference to your several leaders, advocating tourist roads to be built in this district--do you know that there are hundreds of farmers,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Piers Crashed Niagara Falls Bridge Niagara Falls
Unloosed by a phenomenal thaw, the ice jam, 100 feet high below the falls, crushed the piers of the £1,250,000 international bridge. The steel centre…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Anzac Day Celebrations in Sydney Free Train Travel Arrangements
The free trains which are being provided by the State Government for returned soldiers wishing to attend the Anzac Day celebrations…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor-cyclists Fined at Coolangatta "Lair-ising," Said Constable
"Defendant was 'lair-ising' on his motor-cycle in the main street," said the prosecuting constable, when Stanley W. Robertson, of Brisbane, was…
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LONDON, January 8 (By Air Mail). A motor-car standing at night in a country lane near Wrexham, North Wales, attracted the attention of a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Slovenly Signals by Motorists
Though motorists generally have made genuine endeavours to help in the Transport Department's…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bunchy Top Control B.G.F. Board Meets Train Derailment Losses
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Banana Growers' Federation Co-operative Ltd. held in Lismore, it was indicated from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Upper Division BURRINGBAR v RAILWAY
It was left to a B grader to break the sequence of successes by bowlers, when a neat 85 by Fitzsimmons put Burringbar in a good position against…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bridge Notes. Coraki Bridge Club
Substantial scoring marked Thursday night's single, pivot. The winner was Mrs. N. A. Elphinstone, with a score of 2517, Mr. Elphinstone taking second…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Children On Roads
WITH the re-opening of schools in Kyogle and district after the Christmas and New Year vacation there will be a larger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Decapitated by Train
BRISBANE, Monday:—The decapitated body of Alexander Smart (39), single, of Mitchelton, was found today alongside the railway track…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Demonstration Run Made India's Air-Conditioned Train
India's first air-conditioned train recently made a demonstration run from Delhi to Agra and back. Four coaches were used for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Passengers' Miraculous Escapes: Collision in Mist Brisbane
News reached Brisbane to-day of the miraculous escape which passengers in a train experienced when a collision occurred between a goods…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Nearly Six Inches In Two Hours Deluge at Mummulgum Roads Blocked
Torrential rain, which resembled a cloud [?]urst, fell at Mummulgum on Sunday night. In two hours 576…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →North Coast Motor History
The growth of and reminiscences about the motor car industry on the Far North Coast were features of an intensely interesting address given…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Speed Boards
An innovation on the North Coast line is the introduction of railway speed boards at each end of the curves to indicate to the driver the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Trespass Casino
John Jordan (23) Joseph Murray (24), Henry Keogh (32), and Sidney Scott (18) were each fined 10s at the Casino Police Court to-day for railway…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Kyogle Thirty Years Ago From the "Kyogle Examiner," February 1, 1908 U.r. Railway League
A meeting of the executive committee of the above league was held in the School of Arts on Thursday last. Mr. R. Walters moved that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District Roads Advice to Motorists
The district representative of the N.R.M.A. (Mr. W. Lumby) said yesterday that advice had been received that Dunbible bridge, on the Pacific…
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