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Railways, roads & transport, 1925

13,896 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 250

Motoring The 1930 Model What Will the Next Few Years Bring Forth?

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 35

THE least, observant, will have noted that there has been a deal of progress in motoring affairs during the last few years, and much…

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Opening Up the Dorrigo: A Picturesque Railway Line

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 9

Glenreagh and Dorrigo, in the mountainous region of the New South Wales north coast, have at last been connected by a line of railway that is destined to open up a great tract of very picturesque country. IT is ten years since work on this line was started by the Public Works Department. The job was finished last month, and the first official…

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C & D. Line. Name for New Motorship

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 4

Advice has been received in Sydney that the C. & D. Line has selected the name Port Hobart for the company's new motorship, now building on the…

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Railway Appointment Mr. D. Ross Promoted

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 9

Mr. Duncan Ross for the past four years. Chief Assistant Traffic Manager, has been appointed Assistant Metropolitan Area Commissioner, in the…

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Railway Board Sir S. Fay's Radio Newspaper Report Denied

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 16

The Premier (Sir George Puller), announced to-day that he had road in a Sunday newspaper an account of what purported to be a verbatim…

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Wall Crashes City Railway Accident Three Men Hurt

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 10

With a roar of falling masonry a stone wall collapsed at the Bathurststreet intersection of the city railway works at about 10.15 a.m. to-day…

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Round Australia Motor Cyclist Arrives

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 11

Rather tired, and with his machine covered with the dust of many roads Mr. A. Grady, riding a Douglas motor cycle, arrived at the G.P.O. from…

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Tram and a Half Complaint From Mosman

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 8

At last night's meeting of the Mosman Council attention was drawn by Alderman Henderson to the inconvenience caused to passengers by boats…

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Manly Tram Lines

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 11

The secretary to the Railway and Tramway Commissioners states, in a letter to the Manly Council respecting a proposal to extend the first…

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Motor Cyclist Killed Launceston

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 7

William Jory, aged 30. who was employed at Coogan's furniture warehouse, was killed yesterday afternoon through being thrown from a motor…

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"Death Trap" At Railway Square

The Sun · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 14

Mascot Council recently wrote to the Tramway Department asking that the South Sydney trams should stop at the eastern railway entrance, both…

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'BUSES v. Trams Competition in Britain London. Nov, 16

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 3

Since the war, charabances, or large motor 'hoses, have been a new feature of British life, but have generally limited their services to excursion…

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"Behind the Paper" Unionists Will Not Be Bluffed "Men Who Help the Enemy" "Trammies" Emphatic Resolution

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 1

WHILE SEVERAL INDUSTRIALISTS openly take to task the Labor Council for its precipitate action last Thursday, when it played the Capitalist game and declared the workers paper "black," there are many others who are…

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Not Safe the Bridges at Wallsend Engineers Report Railway v. Council Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 6

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Crashed Into Tram Cyclist's Serious Injuries Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 6

Clifford Hushes, 25 married, a table operator employed at the Steel Works, and living in Sunderland Street, Mayfield, was riding a motor cycle along…

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Fell From Tram Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 6

June Ness Wilson, of Rennigo Street, Valley, while attempting to alight from a moving tram in Queen Street last night,, fell, strking the back of her…

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Boy Killed by Motor

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 6

Another child was killed by a motor lorry yesterday. James Morrison, aged eight years, of Blackwall Street, Chiswick, was riding a child's bicycle…

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Railway Smash in West Broken Axle Causes Collision Wheat and Stock Trains Delayed Bathurst

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 9

The breaking of an axle of a truck caused a sensational railway smash on the main western line three miles wast of Rydal this…

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Railway Smashes in Dense Fog London, January 12

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 January 1925 · page 1

A dense fog in London for two days has had a serious effect on business. It has interfered with traffic in the streets, and caused stoppages of 'buses…

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