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Railways, roads & transport, 1927

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Main Roads Board the Year‘s Work Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

The annual report of the Main Roads Board shows that the total expenditure in the metropolitan area during the first year’s operations…

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Motor Accident at Tumut

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 3

Yet another motor vehicle accident, in which one of the parties figuring in the recent serious motor car collision on Blowering Road…

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Motor Traders' Association Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

At a meeting of the Motor Traders' Association to-day, Mr. Boyd Edkins was elected president, and Mr. E. P. Askew country vice-president…

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Car and Tram Collide. Two Men Injured. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

Owing to the sudden application of brakes, a motor car skidded on a wet roadway and collided with a cable tram at Carlton last night. Two persons…

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Motors and Motorists [All Rights Reserved] the Mystery of Beacon Hall Chapter V (Continued)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 4

The private detective did not like being thus censured, so to speak, and he seldom was, rightly, but trusting to his own powers of pentration he…

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Serious Motor Smash Remarkable Escape of the Occupants

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

Two young men, F. McGlynn and F. Hancock, had a sensational and extraordinary escape from very serious if not fatal injuries on…

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Bush Fires Railway Responsibility a Definite Attitude Taken Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

It was [?]ertained to-day that the Railway Department will accept no responsibility for bush fire[?] It has been proved beyond doubt…

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Railway Derailment

The Daily Express · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

A goods train derailment at Bowning during Wednesday night caused dislocation of the main the ser[?] The express and [?]ll trains were…

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State Finances Railways Blamed Sydney

The Daily Express · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 1

The Premier, Mr. Lang, to-night denied the statement made by the President of the Chamber of M[?]facturers, Mr. Marks that the…

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Motoring Types of Design in 1927

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

Those motorists who will be in Sydney in mid-.January will have an excellent opportunity of viewing one of the most representative displays of…

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Railway Time Table

Tumbarumba Times · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 1

The following of the time table of Tumbarumba Railway Line:--Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.--Wagga depart at 10.25 a. m. Forest Hill…

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Moon's Siding-argoon Railway

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

On the last sitting day of Parliament, the Hon. M. M. Flannery moved "That it be referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee…

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Bridge Over the Murray. to Cost £180,000. MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 4

The Murray Waters Commission aunounced today that it has begun the preliminary work in connection with the building of a bridge over the Riverr…

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Body Terribly Mangled. Man on Railway Line Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 8

William Kelly, aged 60 years, an inmate of the Old Men's Home, was found lying on the railway line at Darling Harbor early this morning…

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Railway Fires Vic Trains to Stop Express Traing or Goods Melbourne

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 2

The Victorian Railway Commissioners have issued instructions to train [?]rews to stop their trains in future when they can assist in fighting…

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Perth Trams Normal Service Resumes. Perth

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 8

After a meeting which did not concluded until 3 a.m., the Perth tramway men decided to resume [?] running on the basis of the [?]…

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[?] Barrier Trams Bus Substitutes Wanted Broken Hill

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 1

At a meeting of the Hornedrivers’ Union at Broken Hill, where the steam trams ceased to run at midnight on December 31, a resolution…

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Found Dead on Railway Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 6

The mul[?]ted body of an [?]derly man believed to be W. J. Kelly, was found in a railway tunnel at Darling Harb[?] this morning [?]…

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Motoring Notes Types of Design in 1927

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 6

Those motrists who will be in Sydney in mid-January will have an excellent opor[?]ty of viewing one of the most representative displays of…

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Motor Fatality Knocked Down by Car Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 2

William Fale[?] was knocked down by a motor car at Letch[?] last night. He [?] a [?] [?]tracture of the skull which [?]…

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