Leap From Train to Escape Escort Melbourne
Leaping from a moving train between Shepparton and Koororrpan early today, John Ryan (38) escaped while being escorted to Melbourne by Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1940
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Weekly Bridge Drill Exercises That Improve Play
In addition to presenting in easy, interesting, and scientifically graduated form, the technical knowledge of card plays and bids that is so Indispensable to all aspirants to good or expert standards, this series of articles will be found to contain information that is beneficial to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Escaped Prisoner Found in Railway Truck—asleep Melbourne
While police searched the swamp and scrub, John Ryan, an escapee, was asleep in a railway truck. Ryan leaped from a train in which he was being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cyclist Killed MELBOURNE
Crashing into a post on the Nepeanroad at Chelsea early to-day, a motor cyclist, George Hannah (21), of Parkdale, suffered such injuries that he died…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tintenbar Roads Programme Reduced Alstonville
A revision of the council's proposed £20,000 loan grant roads programme to an estimated expenditure of £15,231, was approved at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Advice Pleases Shire Council Funds Available For Kyogle To Ironpot Road
"That is good news," remarked more than one councillor at a meeting yesterday of Kyogle Shire Council when a letter from the Department of Main Roads was being dealt with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good News for Motorists Petrol Prices CANBERRA
No undue rise in the price of petrol is now anticipated before next August or September…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Electrification of Italian Railways
ROME, Sunday:—Signor Mussolini has centralised the control of artillery, engineering, and transport under General Mario Caracciolo…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Traffic Diverted on Lighthouse Road Ballina
After a break of three weeks during the holiday period work was resumed on the Ballina Lighthouse road yesterday. No interruption was caused to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fleet of Producer Gas Lorries Introduced to Roads in England
LONDON, Monday:—The emergency fleet of lorries from the Brush Electrical Works at Loughborough heralds the day when…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor 'Bus Crashes Over Kerbing Sydney
The driver and conductor of a motor omnibus were admitted to hospital suffering from injuries, and the vehicle was wrecked, when it ran over the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Bridge Fire Extinguished
MOREE, Wednesday:—A few hours before the north-west mail train was due last night Mr. Gordon L. Gall, grazier, noticed that the railway bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →France Wins "Train War" LONDON
In all Franco-German hostilities since 1870 there has been a war within a war over the Eastern express trains. This time France has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Twin Towns Railway Stations
Tweed Heads railway station returns for December were: Passenger 273, fares £73, parcels £43; goods forwarded 11 tons, £4, goods received 313 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Japanese Bomb Bridge
NEW YORK, Thursday:— Japanese bombers badly damaged an important bridge on the French owned Yunnan…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Money for By-roads Woodburn Council Decision
Woodburn Shire, when considering the estimates for 1940, decided to economise and budgeted for reductions in expenditure. For work on by-roads, however, £1500 was allocated, compared with £1000 last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Electric Light for Tweed Shire Delays Attributed to Roads Department
In a brief statement to Tweed Shire Council yesterday, the President (Cr. R. W. Boyd) said that he had been informed that the delay in continuing the City Electric Light Company's lines into Tweed Shire had been caused by a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Millions for Roads to Lead Into and Out of Sydney
"Express" highways leading out of Sydney are envisaged in a comprehensive plan of road improvements evolved after investigation by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many Road Accidents Bad Start For New Year
As reports are being received by the Department of Road Transport from all parts of the State, it is becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Horns Anti-noise Campaign
The Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. Neale, has announced that motorists who made unnecessary noise by the tooting of a horn would…
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