Edgecliff-road
The Main Roads Board having refused the application of Woollahra council to declare Edgecliff-road, from Old South Head-road to Queen-street, a main road, the Mayor…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1926
15,962 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250
Sonoma Buffeted Bridge Damaged
The Sonoma, which arrived yesterday, was severely buffeted by a cyclonic storm on Christmas Day, between 600 and 700 miles from San…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cockburn Shire Roads. Tamworth
The Cockburn Shire Council has for some time past been considering the best method of constructing main roads. The council recently sent a deputation to the Main Roads…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Casualties. Fall From Moving Train
In attempting to board a moving train at Erskineville Station last evening. James Taylor, aged 28 years, residing in Richmond-street, Rockdale, missed his footing, and fell…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Women's World "On the Road"
How often we hear this expression particularly applied to women. Is it their own fault, we wonder, that they never seem to have finished their daily…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Making Sure of the Banquet Bridge Celebration
IN OF a warning by Aid. Galloway that it would be wise to wait until the Cook's river Bridge was finished before rejoicing, Mascot…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Glimpses of Country Life Scenic Road, Griffith
THE wonderful growth of Griffith, on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, has been frequently referred to in these columns. It continues its onward march…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When Fuddle Goes A-digging Trench" in a Road
"This sort of thing is murderous, remarked Aid, Hicks at Mascot council last night, referring to openings made in Botany…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Railways and Tramways
In a large concern like the railways and tramways, the change from 48 to 44 hours a week entails considerable extra work in the preparation of wages sheets. This was…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Crash Averted. Train Brakes Tampered With. Driver's Prompt Action. Wellington (N.z.)
While on a recent evening a goods train was standing at Johnsonville Railway Station, six miles from Wellington, awaiting a signal to run on down the steep grade to…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →For Women Social Events of Importance Motor Tour
Mrs. A. J.Benja[?] of Wellstone craft accompanied by her son. Dr. Benjamin. his flance. Mies Neely. and also by her son and daughter. laurie…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Will Lang Sell Tramways? Question Direct But Reply Was Not
A DIRECT question was asked the premier by Sir Thoma Renley in the Rouse to-day as to [?]ther he intended selling the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Racing Motorists Overland and Vauxhall Meet F. J. Berry Establishes Record in an Alois: Motor Yachting
No Saturday is an off-day at Maroubra now; match races and attemps on records are serious enough to attract a very fair attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Sydney Motor 'Buses. Control by the State
The N.S.W. Estate Cabinet last Thursday decided to take over control of the motor bus services in the County of Cumberland, embracing the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kyogle-brisbane Railway a Deadlock Reached
Owiing to a difference of opinion, between the Prime Minister and the State Government over the cost of the Kyogle to Brisbane railway, the construction, of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →W. A. RAILWAYS. All-Round Increase Granted
The Labor Premier of Western Australia (Mr. Collier) announced last week that the Government had decided to grant members of the Railway Officers'…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Motoring Motorists of the " Never - Never"
There are some arduous motor trips which are undertaken solely from motives of "stunting" and publicity, whilst those such as the dash of the motor party from Longreach to Sydney which we chronicled a few weeks ago are the outcome of necessity. Then there is the motorist whose sheer innate love of pioneering and triumphing over natural difficulties urges him to fight his way through the "Never-Never" without any inducement of direct or indirect reward, but simply because the Bush has cast its spell over him. Such an one is Mr. J. K. Warner, whose narrative is here set down by…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Old Landmark. Demolished by Railway Department
A landmark in the shape of a high chimney at the back of the building at the bottom of Bathurst-street, which was originally Gillespie's flour mill, suddenly disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Tram Accident at Lyne Park
THE EARLY MORNING NEWSPAPER TRAM TO WATSON'S BAY YESTERDAY JUMPED THE RAILS, AND AFTER RUNNING A DISTANCE OF 60 YARDS RAN OVER A HORSE-WATERING TROUGH…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Weekly Railway Tickets
A correspondent, "Minstrel," states that the new weekly railway ticket purports to benefit the person who, at the present time, uses the ordinary weekly ticket for workmen. The…
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