Immovable Tram Blinds
"Vexation" wants to be protected: -- Those tan-colored duck blinds fitted to the open sections of our tramcars are an ever-recurring source of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1928
14,385 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250
Motor Boats in Action
Officials of the Motor Boat Association were keenly disappointed on Saturday when only nine boats faced the starter…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Gladesville Bridge
Dane Cove and Drummoyne councils have been endeavoring to secure the permission of the Minister for Works (Mr. A. E. Buttenshaw) for…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Train Strikes Motor Car. Taree
Mr. John Murdoch was driving his car along the road near Taree when the incoming trals from Kempsey struck the rear portion of its car and hurled it off the line. The chassls…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motor Float Replaces Train in Country
ALBURY, Monday.--Even in the conveyance of racehorses to country meetings the motor has entered into competition with the railways. For…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Notes. Road Danger
Motorists Using the Pittwater-road between Collaroy and Narrabeen, especially at night, are warned that large stormwater pipes are being laid, atnd that a deep excavation has to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →His First Train Trip
A native of County Galway, Ireland, Wm. Hackett. 23, arrived in Sydney by the Mamllius yesterday. He bad never been in a train until he started…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tram Went on Conductor on Road Alleged Assault
A coording to evidence at the Central Court to-day, Claude Riley, a tram conductor, was brutally asauited on the night of December…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Scene at Aerodrome. (From Our Special Representative.) Richmond, Tuesday Morning
At 2 o'clock it seemed as if everything was in readiness for a quick take-off. The engine was started, it ran promptly and sweetly, but after a spin at full speed for rather more…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Woman's Death Fell From Train
MRS. ADA GREENTREE 50,of pens hurst-street Willoushby, stepped off a train at Central Railway Station last night, and loading her balance, fell to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Burwood's Progress Roads Cost £47,000
IN a minute presented to Burwood Council last night, the Mayor, Aid. Blair, referred to the great improvementv the construction of concrete roads had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Baby Dies on Train Lithgow
While Mrs. Baylls, of Narromine. was taking her baby to the city for a change it took 111 and died on the train. The child had been under medical…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fatal Injuries Woman Fell From Train
Despite the frantic efforts of a porter to save her. Mrs. Ada Greentree, 69, of Penshurst-street Willoughby, received fatal injuries when she fell…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Killed by Train--Did Not Hear Warning
A verdict of accidental death was returned by the City Coroner (Mr. Flynn) yesterday, in the case of James M'Donald, who was knocked down by…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Train Derailed. On Bankstown Line. Traffic Interrupted
An electric passenger train was derailed a short distance outside Sydenham railway station at about 8.30 last night, fouling both the "up" and "down" Bankstown lines…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Infant Dies on a Train. Lithgow
When the Western mall train arrived Lithgow the body of an infant which had [?] on the train was removed to the morgue the local hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Canberra to Tumut. Tour Over New Road
A few months ago it was announced that, with the object of shortening the distance by road from the Federal Capital to Melbourne, a new road would be made from Tumut to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Country News and Personal Notes Infant Dies in Train
LITHGOW, Monday.--When the malt train from the west arrived in Lithgow yesterday morning, a five-months-old male infant's body was taken from…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Electric Train Derailed Catastrophe Narrowly Averted by the Driver
As a result of the presence of mind of the driver of an electric train derailed at Sydenham last night a catastrophe was averted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Tragedy Man Killed on Western-Rd. Tyre Blew Out
A young man and woman, both injured, anxiously watched the unconscious form of their father in an ambulance speeding to Parramatta on Sunday afternoon…
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