Life-saving Exams Successful Tramway Men
TWENTY-FIVE candidates from Reacquisition' Tramway Swimming Club submitted themselves to examination for the award of the Royal Life Saving…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1927
16,644 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 250
Porters Peeved Railway Bonuses
Discontent has been caused among the rank and file at the railway goods yard, Darling Harbor, owing to the granting of bonuses by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Trams Scrapped 'Buses Win in U.S.A. HOBART
Motor vehicles will ultimately supersede rail trams for city passenger transit, according to Mr. Roland R. Conklin, who is a passenger on the Carinthia…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Where Is M. BRIAND? Mysterious Motor Trip PARIS, Thursday, Jan. 6
M. Briand (Foreign Minister) travelling as "Dr. Boyer," and accompanied only by a personal friend, motored to Avignon, where all trace…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Main Roads Grab
The soaking rain of the past two or three days has made many realise more than over the good work of the Alain Bonds Board during the twelve months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →National Roads. Federal Policy
Discussing the importance of transport in its relation to modern industry. in a speech given before members of the Brisbane Constitutional Club, the Acting Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Eringelly and Mulgoa Roads
THE matter of reconstructing Mulgoa and Bringelly Roads is awaiting the completion of the agreement between Penrith council and the Main…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →National Roads and Motorists' Association News and Notes Motor Taxation
An interesting return, indicating the rate of taxation on the various makes of 'cars, in the respective States, has been furnished by the N.R.M.A. This…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Mountain Road
THE complaint of a traveller in the "S.M. Herald":—I have travelled by road to the Mountains for many years, but never have I seen the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train for Naval Ratings
A special train for naval ratings returning from Christmas holidays is to leave Sydney at 8.5 p.m. on Sunday, January 9…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Gambling on a Train
Eric Pemberton, Leonard J. Lahlff, and Arthur Thompson pleaded guilty before Mr. G. S. Shepherd, S.M., at the Newtown Police Court, to a charge of gambling in a railway…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Big Tree Blocks Road
The N.R.M.A. touring department reports that a monster tree has fallen across the road from Kurrajong to Bell, on the Bell side of Mt. Tomah…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Girl Under Train Legs Almost Severed
Falling under a train at Pendle Hill railway station Lillian Battle (14), of Ellatory Street, Pendle Hill, had both legs almost severed…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →By Road to Hawkesbury River
Motorists, advises the N.R.M.A. touring department, are now proceeding to Hawkesbury River, via Hornsby and Berowra, by using the new formation…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Western Road Mountain Section
With reference to a complaint appearing in the Metropolitan Press as to the condition of the Mountain Road it is pointed out that this section of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Falls Under Train Leg Is Fractured
Lillian Battle (14), of Ettalong Road, Pendle Hill, fell under a moving train at Pendle Hill station early last night and received a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chased by Cyclist Bathurst-road Mystery
The police are satisfied that if they can get into touch with the driver of the Norton cycle, who, it is said, dinned a motor car along the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girl's Fall. Under Moving Train. Legs Almost Amputated
While attempting to alight from a moving train at the Pendle Hill railway station last night. Lilian Battle, aged 14 years, of Ettalong-road, Pendle Hill, fell between the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Where to Motor Unknown Beauties the Mount Wilson District Suggested Route to Kurrajong Awful State of Blue Mtns. Road
HAVE your ever metered from Mt. Victoria through Bell to Mt. Wilson and Mt. Irvine. If net, a treat is in more for you. To-day a description of a suggested route to Kurrajong is given by one of the pioneers of Mt. Irvine, a Hawkesbury College boy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed by Train. Man's Body in Tunnel. Darling Harbour Line
The body of William Kelly, aged 59 years, hairdresser, of Market-street, Randwick, was found terribly mutilated in the George-street West tunnel on the Darling Harbour railway…
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