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Railways, roads & transport, 1928

14,385 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 250

Wagga's Railway Needs Commissioner Is Approached Two Local Deputations Wagga

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 6

MAYOR W. F. DAY and Aldermen W. J. Peacock, A. E. Shoemark and D. R. Hamblin, by deputation, this morning waited…

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What Selling Our Railways Means

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 4

TRAMWAYS are street railways, therefore if it is sound business to dispose of [?]r trams, the same principle ho[?] good regarding our…

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Making Our City Safe King Street Trams Cut Them Out, Says Expert

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 4

NUMEROUS proposals to relieve traffic congestion in the heart of the city were placed before the first public meeting of the Traffic…

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Crushed Under Tram

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 4

Severe injuries were suffered by Beatrice Hamilton. 59, of Heavener Avenue, Penshurst, when she fell under a moving tram in King Street,…

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Call Them "Used Cars" Coming Motor Show

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 6

The motor trade has decided to eliminate the word "second-hand" from its dictionary, as they consider that a car which has been used for a…

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Parramatta Motor Cycle Club Formed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 10

The Parramatta District Motor Cycle Club was formed at a large gathering of motor cyclists held at Parramatta. Mr. F. Loudon was elected president,…

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Take Trams Right Out of King Street! Proposals to Cope With City's Rushing Traffic 'Bus Problems

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 9

Elimination of the tram service through King Street, and removal of the tramway waiting-shed, with its resultant…

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Fell from Moving Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 9

Mrs. Beatrice Hamilton (56), of Heavener Street, Penshurst, sustained a fractured skull when she fell from a moving tram in King Street,…

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Auction Bridge Laws London

Evening News · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 2

A detailed revision or the laws of auction bridge has been completed, and is now being printed, but the changes will not be available for publication, and will…

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"Show Them Points" Roads Board Criticised

The Sun · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 23

Aid, Monro had some hard things to say about the Main Roads Board at the Mascot council meeting last night. "They don't know how to make roads…

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Tourist Traffic and Roads. I Taree

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 16

Tourist traffic in this district over the holidays has been unusually heavy, and owing to intermittent wet weather during the last two months the roads in many parishes have…

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Yass Road Fatality Canberra

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 4

An admission that he had possibly accelerated his car was made by James Hill, driver of the car in which Colin Carrie was killed in a capsize on Yass…

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Another View of the Progress of the Bridge

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 5

In the Immediate foreground the Mil son's Point Railway Station, then Dorman, Long's Wharf, where a vessel is unloading steel, and in the distance the bridge work itself, looking very impressive…

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Bogged in Tar in a Balmain Road

Evening News · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 15

COMPLAINING to Balmain Council last night regarding the condition of Hollins-street, a ratepayer alleged that the road in parts was a bog of tar…

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£5,000,000 Bridge New Thames Project London

The Sun · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 1

The City Corporation Bridge Committee has rejected the Ludgate bridge project, and has recommended St. Paul's bridge scheme, which will…

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Ore Prospecting. Geophysical Method. Not a Royal Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 17

Mr. E. C. Andrews, State Government Geologist, in a preliminary report to the Minister for Mines (Mr. Chaffey) on geophysical prospecting for ore bodies, says that the…

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Bulli Pass Road to Be Repaired Bulli

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 6

Bull Pass Boad is to be put into traffickable condition throughout its entire length. Bull Shire council decided last night…

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Main Roads Board. Works Authorised During the Month of December, 1927

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 17

Shire of Kyogle (Kyogle). Arrangements have been made between the Board and the Kyogle Shire Council for the expenditure of an amount of £7,985 on general maintenance…

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The Letter Bag How to Get Out of Our Traffic Tangle Underground Railways Bus :Tram Problem To the Editor

Evening News · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 8

SIR.—Motor bus services are competing with State-owned services to such an extant as to force consideration of whether the two should be allowed to exist side by side. In all countries…

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Senseless Destruction by Youths Fined Over £43 for Smashing Train Windows

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 13

PENRITH, Tuesday. -- "A thing you might excuse a baby for doing, but anyone who has any manhood or aspiration to manhood, cannot be…

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