Motor World Happenings News and Notes From the N.R.M.A. Dual Purpose Car Park
Holborn, London, is to have an underground car park which, in times of war, will be a bomb shelter holding…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1939
972 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 7 of 49
Show Judges Free Railway Passes Sought
The granting of free railway passes to judges at agricultural shows is being sought by the United Pure Bred Dairy Cattle Breeders’…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Decline in Revenue Narromine Railway Station
The Railway revenue at Narromine showed a marked decline of more than £700 in January as compared with the same period in 1938…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Camps for State
A chain of camping areas at selected reports throughout State are to be established by the Government. At the invitation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motor World. News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Dual Purpose Car Park
Holburn, London. is to have an underground car park which. in times of war, will be a bomb shelter. holding 77,000 people. As a car…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One Killed - Two Injured Train and Engine Collide Priests Attend Dying Men Brisbane, Friday night
When a passenger train and a shunting engine collided at Bundama station, near Ipswich, to-day, one man was killed and two seriously injured. Many passengers suffered shock. The train, which was coming from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Safety Education and Enforcement
This month the flying motor patrol of die State highways by the new traffic police corps will be in operation. The motor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Point of Collapse But Drove His Train Sydney
Driver Mathon, of the Melbourne express, drove for 83 miles on Saturday on the point of collapse as a result…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unloading Race At Trucking Yards. for Sheep Carted by Motor
After several years of agitation an unloading race for sheep brought in by motor lorry has been erected at the Narromine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorist Fined Drove Lorry While Under Influence of Drink
Before Mr. S. A. Thornton, P.M., in the Dubbo Police Court yesterday, Peter Albert Shirtley, slaughterman, of Dubbo, was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Is Railway "Cinderella" Says President of Chamber of Commerce
"I think that the West is the Cinderella as far as the railways are concerned," said the president (Mr. Phil McGee) at the annual meeting of the Dubbo Chamber of Commerce last night. He was referring…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Bomb Railway Links Destroy 38 Planes Shanghai
The Japanese bombed Lunchow and Sian, important links on the munition route from Russia. They claim to have destroyed 38…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gazetted a Main Road Binnaway-coonabarabran- Coolah Roads Council Anxious for Subsidy
Recently several stretches of road in this shire were gazetted as being proclaimed a main road, viz., from the junction of the Binnaway road to the highway at the four mile, from there via Binnaway to the junction of the Binnaway-Coolah…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Toll of the Road Mr. Motorist, Be Careful!
It it one of the dismal after effects of every period of gaiety and holiday that to many people should lose their lives or suffer…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bodangora Road Repairs at Long Last Bodangora Road in Bad Shape
Bodangora temperatures reached the century mark several times during the past week, and a severe dust, storm on Friday night made matters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Safety Education and Enforcement
This month the flying motor patrol of the State, highways by the new traffic police corps, will be in operation. The motor trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Timbrebongie Shire Road Works Council Approves Of £2528 Programme New Tractor
Timbrebongie Shire Council's new Clectrac tractor, the purchase of which was decided upon at the January meeting, has arrived, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Making Road Users Behave Better “Flying Patrol” to Start Operations Soon
This month the flying motor patrol of the State highways by the new traffic police corps will be in operation. The motor trucks which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Timber on Shire Roads Too Much Destroyed in Country, Says Police Magistrate Warning Issued to Gilgandra People
You realise that the maximum penalty is £50, and I hope that the people of Gilgandra take notice of this warning to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposed Mountain Road a Means of Absorbing Unemployed Council Will Invoke Department’s Assistance
Some time ago Coonabarabran Shire Council asked the Local Government Department to build a developmental road from the vicinity of Gamin Station to connect with the Timor road, which starts at Coonabarabran. The proposal was…
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