Safety Habits Are Growing Education of Road Users
The fact that, despite the difficulties of the year, the accident figures, apart from deaths, fell by a substantial percentage, shows that the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
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Facts and Fancies. Flies Faster Than An Aeroplane
There are several species of birds that can travel much faster than an aeroplane yet Invented. The fastest of them is called the "frigate bird,"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Men Commissioner's Appreciation of Royal Co-operation
The Commissioner of Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, has issued the following Christmas and New Year message to the great staff of 42,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fun on the Railway
"Ma," began the boy, as he entered the railway carriage at a suburban station with a tired-looking woman, "ma, that man's like a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Low Level—In Road Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
There were fewer fatal road accidents in New South Wales during the month of December than there were for the Christmas-New Year holidays of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motorists Corner OFFICIAL R.A.C.A Notes "Carbon" Goes Bush
Well, to the intense surprise of everybody including illustrious self, I am back in comparative civilisation, more or less intact. Sundry people…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Railways Huge Consumption
The New South Wales Railways spend annually on materials about £9,000,000. Approximately 90 per cent. of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Works in Wingecarribee Shire
At last meeting of Wingecarribee Shire the Engineer (Mr. H. A. Leonard) submitted a detailed report of road works carried out since the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unclaimed Property on the Railway Auction Sales
It is amazing what some people leave iu trains or fail to claim when consigned to them. For instance, the following articles have come up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State's Part in War Effort Railway Co Operation Forging Weapons To, Smash Foe
Ibo Deputy-Premier and Leader of the Country Party, Colonel Bruxner, said recently that the basis of the Government's Policy was the fullest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Excursion Train for February
In addition to the excursion tickets issued every week-end for travel between any two stations wholly within the Tourist Area, there will be an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Car Ran Off The Road
Most of the reports of fatal road accidents in recent months contain the significant words, "the car ran off the road," and end with such phrases as it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Why the Car Ran Off the Road
Twenty-one persons were killed in recent month because cars ran off tho road through inattentive driving, which included the diversion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New South Wales State Railways Establishment and Development
For nearly 70 years after the arrival of Governor Phillip's fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788 trade in New South Wales was unassisted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Tentacles
From the short railway line of 13 miles opened in 1855 the railways during the subsequent 85 years threw out tentacles in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motorists' Corner OFFICIAL R.A.C.A Notes I Learn to Drive
When you have held clean licences in six different countries over a period of twenty years, you are apt to hang around in the offing when they are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Evils in Road Accidents (Issued by the Bond Safety Council of New South Wales)
Research into road accidents shows that types of accidents occur in "waves" which are not confined to one part of the State but to the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Existing Railway Facilities
The railway facilities available in New South Wales today represent an investment of approximately £150,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Day at Wollongong Railway Excursion Next
Another of the popular Sunday railway excursions will be run to Wollongong next Sunday (Feb. 16). Special concession fares will be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Railway Traffic Mr Hartigan's Big Job New Rolling Stock Proposals
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, in common with administrators of other huge undertakings, is a very busy man consequent…
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