Railway Transfers
Mr. H. Wilson, railway fireman, has been transferred from Junee to Culcairn; Mr. O. Judd, fireman at Junee, has been promoted to engine-driver;…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
1,150 stories in Riverina's papers · page 17 of 58
Railway Traffic Through Junee Shows Big Increase
Railway traffic through Junee in the month of March showed a tremendous increase upon the figures for the same period of last year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Wrecked in 1917 Salvaged
An Australian company of Royal Engineers has salvaged part of a Turkish train which Lawrence of Arabia wrecked on the Hedjaz railway 25 years ago Six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrific Road Collision Aged Man Seriously Injured
A TERRIFIC collision between a modern Studebaker motor utility truck and a light horse-drawn sulky on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Notes Many Motor Vehicle Failures Can Be Avoided
Not all car and truck troubles are preventable, but a great many of them are Though no amount of service foresight will forestall the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R.a.f. Raid French Railway Bombed Heavy Loss of Fighters
LONDON, Monday.—The Air Ministry announced to-day that squadrons of fighters and a small force of bombers were over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Motorists
Under existing conditions, it behoves owners of automobiles to minimise the amount of tyre wear per mile by careful driving and attention to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring Making Good the Petrol Shortage Germany's Big Use of Wood and Coke
While Australia is concentrating on the production of producer gas outfits for motor vehicles to make good the shortage of petrol, German-occupied Europe is stated to be largely making and fitting equipment which consumes wood fuel, and instead of motorists buying…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Americans in England New Motor-cycle Battalion
AMERICAN MARINES IN LONDON—Men of the U.S.A. Marine Guard seen as they arrived at the American Embassy in London. A FLYING FORTRESS TAKES OFF—One of the giant American haill Boelng "Flying Fortesses," In service with the B.A.F. (and also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Services Cancelled
The acting secretary of railways advises that the week-end train services within the tourist areas have been cancelled. The trains which will not…
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At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, William John Carrol, aged 24 years, and Geoffrey Martin Smith, aged 20 years, strangers to Wagga, pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed in Fall From Train
When he fell from a moving train at Arcadia (V.) on Monday night, John M'Mahon, soldier, of Abbott st., Sandringham, suffered fatal injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Airmen Killed While on Training Flight Crash North of Crookwell Road
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Four airmen were killed yesterday when an aircraft from an R.A.A.F. station in New South wales crashed 15 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Legislative Assembly Federal Government and Small Boats Concession to Motorists Mr. Graham and Country Millers
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Questions relating to the action taken by the Federal authorities to prevent small boats falling into the hands of the enemy,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smashing Raids by R.A.F. in Germany and France Railway and Engine Works Wrecked LONDON
Spitfire squadrons streamed across the Channel for 9½ hours to-day in one of the longest day-light offensives this year. An…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Months on Motor Car Charge
At the Goulburn Police Court on Monday Thomas Homfray, aged 27 years, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for taking and using a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Crash
NEW YORK, Thursday: The official Tokio Radio stated that two underground trains crashed at Osaka station this afternoon, killing and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Falls From Bridge
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Crashing from the Harbor Bridge on to a children's playground of concrete 70ft. below, Mrs. Lilian Hade, aged 40 years, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tumut.-canberra Road
In response to Mr. Tom J. Collins' representations to Senator Collings, Minister for the Interior, for the construction of the road from Tumut…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Wave of Terrorism in Occupied France German Troop Train Derailed References to the Unrest
LONDON, Thursday: An Agency report from Vichy says that, simultaneously with M. Laval's return to power, a wave of terrorism has broken out in occupied France. A train carrying German troops was derailed, and forty Germans were killed. Two attacks were made…
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