1 DEAD: 11 HURT Queensland Train Crash
BRISBANE: Mrs..Clara Ibell, 34, of South Toowoomba, died in Toowoomba General Hospital last night as a result of injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1941
894 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 45
Car Ran Off Road Accident Causes Analysed
Most of the reports of fatal road accidents in recent months contain the significant words, "the car ran off the road," and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Celebrates Jubilee First Underground Railway
The world's first tube railway celebrated its jubilee last month. It is fifty years since Edward the Seventh, then Prince of Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Toowoomba Train Smash
TOOWOOMBA, Tuesday:—The condition of the train accident victims is unchanged. Workmen, who have been going all day, will work…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Transport Utilised
TOOWOOMBA, Wednesday:—A serious loss of fruit from the granite belt owing to the blockage of the range line has been averted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Special Training Course for Army Motor Cyclists
In certain branches of the British Army, all officers up to the rank of Brigadier must now learn to master the mysteries of riding a motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Queensland Motorist Fined
BALLTNA, Wednesday,—Rex Gordon Armati (41). traveller, of Stanton Hill, Queensland, was fined £5 at Ballina Police Court by Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cycling. K. Layton Wins Lismore Games Lismore Club's 5 Miles Road Race
Ken Laytoa recorded his first win in senior company on Saturday when he led the field across the line in the Lismore club's five miles road event on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Patriotic Bridge Club
Mrs. C. Kenyon, with 1832, and Mrs. D. Reid, who scored 1629, won the flags for the highest scores at Kyogle Patriotic Bridge Club's first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Troops Train in Britain
Into the breech of a light field gun goes a shell as the Australian troops finish their training in Britain. More of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amusements Roxy Theatre "The Road to 'Frisco"
Featuring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and Humhprey Bogart in an all-star cast, "The Road to 'Frisco" comes to the Roxy Theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Railway Construction Programme
CANBERRA: A big programme of railway construction will be undertaken in New South Wales, Victoria and South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Making Railways Ready for Emergency N.S.W., Victoria And S.A. To Participate Huge Scheme
CANBERRA, Monday.—A big programme of railway construction will be undertaken in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia as a result of decisions reached at the Loan Council…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Guards Are Home Guards
With fixed bayonets, their blue uniforms discarded for khaki, three railwaymen go on duty--to guard Britain's railways. Two hundred thousand of them have voluntarily come forward to keep a 24-hour watch on Britain's 20,000 miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australia's Out-of-Date Motor Vehicles
It is an indubitable fact that the automobile is a necessity to Australia, and that anything which threatens and jeopardises the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Industrial Research in Motor Industry
The following question, at the request of the Advisory Commission to the U.S.A. Council of National Defence, was recently put to America's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Killed By Train
SYDNEY, Thursday.—While lying on the railway line, near a bridge, apparently asleep, Alfred James Cubbings (44), an invalid pensioner, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waves of Road Accidents
Research into road accidents shows that types of accidents occur in "waves,' which are not confined to one part of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gundurimba Share No New Road Construction Work This Year
No provision for improvement works (new construction) were contained in Gundurimba Shire Council's main…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Retreating Italians Lashed By R.A.F. Bombs Wavell's Men Pressing on Gear, War Material Litter Roads
LONDON: Mercilessly lashed by R.A.F. bombs and bullets, their communications constantly attacked, their 'planes smashed from the skies and their landing grounds pounded, the Italians on all fronts in Africa hare desperately speeded up their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →