Train Into Buffers
An electric train drawing into Milson's Point station last night overran, the station and crashed into the bumpers at the dead-end. Little…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1929
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Developmental Roads. Kempsey
At a meeting of the Macleay Shire Council attention was drawn to a statement by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Bruntnell) that £250,000 would be made available for…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bridge a Bad Double
READERS will remember that, in the data given last week, a double of three of a suit in the first round if the doubler's partner had not spoken was an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Main Road
The Main Roads Board has informed Hurstville Council that, in response to representations made by Hurstville Council for the proclamation of a new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Bridge Railway Link to bo Open for Traffic in 1931
Good progress is being made with the construction of a bridge over the Clarence River at Grafton, which will from the connecting link of the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"Cutting In" Spit Bridge Confusion
THE N.R.M.A reports that the absence of adequate police control at Sell Bridge on Sunday night organised hundreds of motorists to break the [?] and rush the bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tom Ugly’s Point Bridge
The bridge over Georges River at Tom [?]ly’s Point has now leached such a stage in its. construction that the date of completion can be stated as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Killed. Fell From Train
Kenneth Scattergood, 16, of Guildford, was killed yesterday morning, when he fell from a moving train near the Flemington railway station. The boy was seen to fall suddenly…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tempe-east Hills Railway. No Double Line Beyond Croydon Road
Replying to a communication from the Hurstville Council regarding the decision of the Railway Commissioners to construct the double line on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Aeroplane Hallan Machine Will Carry a Hundred Men
Weighing 15-ton, and designed to carry a load of the same weight, the world's largest aeroplane is nearing completion at the Capronl Works,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Money in It North Shore Bridge
"I am no party, and I have no association with any carping criticism of the great engineering feat being carried out by one of the best…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth Killed in Fall From Train
On his way to work yesterday, William Scattergood (16), of Rosebery Road, Guildford, fell, from a moving train near Flemington railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crash Into Deadend. Milson's Point Train
The resounding crash of splintering timber, followed by the screeching of the brakes of an electric train, created consternation at Milson's Point Station at 5.10 p.m. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →New Road. Kurnell to Cronulla
Kurnell Ratepayers’ Assn. are protesting against delay in making a road from that point to Cronulla. Nearly. two years have passed since £3,300…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Scaled" on Train Her Father Was Sick
HOW [?] asked a fine, in order to a [?] people, who, through the [?] had been in poor circum[?], was related at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Train Derailment. in Western Australia. Perth
Owing, it is alleged, to points having been left half open, an engine and five following trucks of a goods train were derailed at Burges Siding, 71 miles from Perth, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Unsafe Bridge Heavy Load Liable to Fall Through
Officials of the Jemalong Shire Council are of opinion that probably the Main Roads Board would be liable to recoup the shire if damages were claimed as a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →George's River Bridge. Ready After Easter. Probable Temporary Use
The chief engineer for bridges (Mr. R. Vowell) has been informed by the contractors for the new bridge across George's River at Tom Ugly's Point that it will not be…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →To Wreck Mail Train Attempt at Wagga Wagga
What appears to have been a deliberate attempt to wreck the mail train from Sydney took place at Wagga when a ladge dogspike was driven…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cars, Motor Cycles and Tractors For the Farm or the Road, Business or Pleasure Power Alcohol Plant to Extract the Spirit from Molasses
The cheapest power alcohal in the world is that produced from Nipapalm in the Philippines, where it grows abundantly, power alcohol has…
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