Small Boys Sternest Critics Motor Show Rendezvous For Big Crowds
Interest in the Motor Show is being well sustained. It is particularly a delight to all small boys who think in terms of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1929
14,914 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 250
Sleepers and Spikes on Railway Line Youth "Saw It on the Pictures"
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Clifford Efford Essell (17), had seen sleepers placed on railway lines in the pictures, he told the magistrate at Bacchus…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lawson Motor Smash Car Hit Coach, Says Witness
At the resumed inquiry yesterday into the Lawson motor smash on January 5, Charles Combes, driver of the Hudson car, said that every time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letters to the Editor (Correspondence published under the heading of "Letters to the Editor" expresses the personal views of the correspondents. No responsibility is taken", by "The Land" for opinions expressed, or for the accuracy of information given.) Prison Labor for Roads (The Editor, "The Land.")
Sir,—The making of roads is one of the biggest problems of all nations since the development of motor transport, and we are rapidly arriving at the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Train Alterations
The Railway Department draws attention to several alterations in the metropolitan--Mondays to Fridays--train service, which will come into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Closing a Road
"Old Man" asks in anger:-- For many years, 35 to my personal knowledge, a road has been open, leading from the main road at La Perouse,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision on Bridge. Motor Cycle and Side Car Hits Car
On Sunday at midday, a motor cycle driven by Kenneth Martin, of Roseberry Road, Guildford, with Mervyn Duff, also of Guildford, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Fair to Awful" Motorist on N.s.w. Roads Victorian Comparisons
FOLLOWING his yearly custom, Mr. E. B. Warren took a long motor trip during the Christmas season — this time to Melbourne. Further following his custom, he has forwarded to the "News" tho following description of the roads over…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Struck by Train Returned Soldier's Death
A man named Thomas Clark, aged 40, a returned soldier, who escaped early this morning from the Liverpool State Hospital, was later found dead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Elderly Woman Injured Alighting From Train
Catherine Martin, 76, of Wells Street, Newtown, wan alighting from an electric train at St. Peters last night, when she clipped and fell on the platform…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flushing Upper Nepean Bridge at Douglas Park
Wollondilly Shire has informed Camden Council that a low-level conerete bridge is being constructed at Douglas Park, and, an it is essential that there…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Auction Bridge Back to Cavendish Whist Conventions
A recent controversy in a London paper concerning the best lead at no trumps from Ace-Jack-ten and from King-Jack-ten has sent me back to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →George Stephenson and the Sydney Harbour Bridge
George Stephenson's cast-iron bridge, built at Newcastle-on-Tyne 80 years ago, is here seen beside the single-arch bridge built by Messrs. Dorman, Long, and Co., and designed by the same engineer who has designed the Sydney Harbour bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Harbour Bridge. English Prototype. at Newcastle-on-tyne
On October 10 last King George officially opened tho great single-arch bridge over the river Tyne, between Newcastle and Gateshead. Not only is this bridge of the same…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Man Shot W.A. Train Mystery Perth
A telephone message received here today, states that when the train which left Geraldton for Perth yesterday reached Strawberry last night a man…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Body on Line Hospital Patient Run Down by Train
CLAD only in a shirt, the [?] body of Thomas Clark [?] had been an inmate of the [?] State Home, was found on [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water by Train Western Towns' Plight Broken Hill
Because of the drying up of the Government tank at Tarrwingee, the whole of the water required by the residents of that town has to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Financial. Efficient Transport. Railways and Motor Collaboration
Problems of transport are amongst the most urgent the world over, and nowhere more so than in Australia. Motor transport, with its rapid development of recent years, has…
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