Proposed Railway
Tho secretary of the Public Works Committee has notified the different cerneils interesting that the committee are inquiring into a proposal to coastract a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1917
6,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 250
Motoring Automobile Club the Roads Up North
A member of the Automobile Club recently drove from Lismore to Newcastle, via the main north road, and he reports the condition of the roads as follows:— "Rain began to fall…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Hawkesbury Bridge Strengthening the Girders New Type of Locomotive
Important works in connection with the Hawkesbury railway bridge are now in progress. When the bridge was erected, many years ago, the heaviest engine on the road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Slowing Down Trams Profitless Innovation In the Busiest Hours
The Railway Commissioners have, very properly, been loud in their denunciation of "slowing down" methods, as preached by the I.W.W., but they have themselves instituted a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Depot Fire I.w.w. Methods Saturated Waste
A fire, which recalls the well-known methods of the I.W.W. propagandists, was discovered last Sunday at the Fort Macquarie tram depot. The watchman on duty at 5 a.m. noticed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Men and Extra Hour
At a meeting of the executive of the New South Wales Government Tramway Employees' Union it was resolved to send to the Prime Minister a letter protesting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier-donors Motor Cars Presented Defence Department's Windfall
Two light motor ambulances and two run-about motor cars were presented to the Defence Department yesterday morning, at Victoria Barracks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Awful Roads the Municipal Engineer Need of Greater Sydney "X.y.z." complains:--
Why should our roads continue to be a disgrace to our State when such an object lesson as America's roads are known to so many Australian travellers, and facts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Beat U Boats. Ameri[?] Motor Patrol
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Motor Cars. Sydney Still Purchasing. 426 Last Month. Representing £127,800
[?] most nourishing [?] one may he permitted [?] form the records of the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dural Wants Railway
At the last meeting of the [?] of New South Wales at [?] it was [?] resolved, "That Mr.[?] be asked to report to the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bicycle and Motor Car Collide at Manly
ALFRED BOLTON, 10, was riding a bicycle along the Coran, Manly this afternoon, when he lost control of the machine and collided with a [?] car that was coming into the [?] from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Man's Death. Hobart
W. H. Dennis, a railway employee, was run over and killed by a train at the Hobart Railway Station…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Accident
NEWCASTLE, Monday.--When the North Coast train from Sydney, due here at 5.25 p.m.. was at Tuggerah, a break-down occurred. An axle of the engine broke, and the train was…
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As a sufferer from our atrocious roads I would like to compliment X.Y.Z. for the real live kick he has given the municipal councils and Automobile Association…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle's Overhead Bridge
NEWCASTLE, Monday.-- Some time age the Mayor of Newcastle (Aid. Moroney entered into arrangements for I he removal of the A. A. Company's bridge, which spans the western…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inquiries about Roads Uncle Wiseman's Answers to Questons. Closing Unnecessary Roads
Wauchope (N.S.W.) has two old roads running through his selection and would like to have them closed and incorporated in his holding. The new road that has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Smashes Mirk-waggon
MORPETE, Monday.--At the level crossing leading into the butter factory this morning the train coming from,the yards crashed into a milk waggon. The vehicle was smashed to places…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Forcing a Road. The difficulty and the Cost
Wyalong (N.S.W.) holds a conditional purchase and desires to know if a neighbour can force a 'road through this block, Answer: Your neighbor can only force…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Right of User. a Road Closed after Forty Years
Blayney (N.S.W.) has been travelling across a corner of his neighbor's paddock for the past five years, along a track that has been in use for some forty years…
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