Train Caught in Fire Cut Off by Flames Fassifern Station Destroyed SYDNEY
An exciting story of the destruction of the Fassifern railway station and houses nearby, and the remarkable escape of the Newcastle express from…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1933
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The Victorian Railway Gauge (To the Editor)
Dear Sir: It was very interesting to read in your issue of 6th instant, the objections raised to the proposals which are to be discussed at the…
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An extradrdinary accident happened at Marrina on Tuesday evening, as a result of which one of the railway officials is now in Junee Hospital in a…
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About 250 tents were erected for the accomodation of over 1000 persona on the N.R.M.A. camping ground at Lake Illawarra South over the Christmas…
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A dust storm that passed over Junee on Tuesday night was the worst seen for many years. The wind was at high velocity and the town…
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Thieves were again active at Griffith last week, when on different nights three premises were visited. One of these was the office at the…
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A motoring party from Wagga had a narrow escape from serious injury when returning home on Thursday night, 5th inst. The party comprised…
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At the meeting of the Ganmain F. and S. Associations on Saturday afternoon last, Mr. E. M. [?] stated that in his opinion an appeal should be…
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An extraordinary accident happened at Marinna last Tuesday evening, as a result of which one of the railway officials is now in hospital in…
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The Burrangong (Young) Shire Council has reverted to the old method of road maintenance by placing two mien with a horse drawn…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Changes Economy Begins at the Top
The New Chief Railway Commissioner (Mr. Hartigan) is effecting substantial economies in the Railways service by the elimination of a…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Bridge Tragedy 22nd Victim One-legged Man Sydney
The 22nd Sydney Harbor bridge tragedy occurred last night when Horace Royal Lock, aged 35 years, a one-legged man, living at West Ryde,…
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Kenneth Pryor, of Goulburn, was burned to death on Gunning Cap on Friday afternoon. Pryor, who was employed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General the Railway Dams
Though the water in the railway dams may never be used again for railway purposes, the cost of the construction of the huge dams (they hol…
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Kenneth Pryor, married, was burned to death on Gunning Gap on Friday afternoon. Pryor, who was employed by…
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With the train leaving Leeton at 6 o'clock on Friday evening last, it meant the swimmers from Leeton had to travel without tea, and when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Fireman Killed Locomotive Overturns Accident to Wheat Train Bathurst
The engine and several trucks of a wheat train bound for Sydney were derailed near Tamulla, a small siding on the Orange side of Bathurst,…
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Mr. John G. Sutherland, a manufacturer, aged 62 years, of Auston, Birmingham (England) was afraid that unless he could get to London…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Darlington Point the Suggested Tramway
If a tramway from Wilbriggie to Darlington Point should transpire, the advantage of a really good camp for stock on the bank of the river…
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Returns courteously supplied to us by the Railway Stationmaster Mr. Sid Clarke, for the month of December, 1932:—Revenue, outward, £1710…
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