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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
13,038 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 250
EXCLUSIVE FLASHLIGHT PICTURE taken soon after the wreck, showing men cutting a hole in the engine cab to extricate Driver Harry Hanna and Fireman Edward Smith, who were crushed to death within it. THE SECOND ENGINE of the express plunged into the lender of the first engine and forced it into…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Two men were injured when a car crashed over a three-feet embankment on the Windsor Road, Kellyville, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LAST night's tragic train smash near Warrimoo, draws attention to several appalling disasters in the history of the N.S.W. railway system…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →DRIVER HANNA and Fireman Smith, of the 5.25 passenger train from Mount Victoria to Sydney, were killed when the two locomotives drawing the carriages were derailed at Warrimoo, Blue Mountains, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE Royal Motor Yacht Club will not hold any motor yacht events at Rope Bay on Saturday but has arranged to hold a regatta at Land…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Edwin Dawes, 22, laborer, was fined £20, or three months, ordered to pay £12/3/6 compensation and witnesses' expenses, and bound over to be of good…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Some years ago a well-known author wrote a story of a man who, after living in England and keeping pace with developments up to about the year 1910, went on a sea voyage,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of the finest day's sports so far seen at the Penrith Speedway, was held yesterday, when the track was at its best. Some exceptionally close racing took place, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Four people were injured, one seriously, when a motor car and a heavy lorry collided at the intersection of Prince's Highway and Forest-road, Arncliffe, late last night…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Framk L. Edwards, secretary of the Automotive Manufacturers' Association, writes:— Sir,—I am instructed by the Automotive…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →KATOOMBA, Tuesday.--At the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Stewart, Wentworth Falls, a model railway line is in operation. The rolling stock…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Absolutely no blame can be attached to the driver of the car. He did all that he could to avert this tragedy," said the City Coroner (Mr. May)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two motor cycles met in a head on collision last night on the Port Kembla Road, near the power-house. John Roach. 10 of Port Kembla…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →GOULBURN.--Alarm at the removals of railway men from Goulburn to other centres was voiced, at a public meeting called by the Mayor, Ald. J…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Leaping the rails a quarter of a mile on the Sydney side of Warrimoo last night the express from Mount Victoria to the city plunged over a 12-foot embankment and crushed Driver Harold Hanna (32) and Fireman Edward Smith (25) to death…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Comparatively few people live to that ripe old age when fiery ambition gives place to sweet reflection…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An extra ten tram-loads of holiday-makers were taken to the Zoo yesterday, compared with Anniversary Day last year, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE highest suspension bridge in the world, with an altitude of 1052ft., is being constructed over the top of the Royal Gorge, near Canon City, Colorado. The length of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN attractive New Year "card" has been issued by Messrs. Bloxham and Chambers, Essex and Harrington streets, Sydney. For the fourth your in succession…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →The Road Traffic Bill, which has been introduced in the British Parliament with the object of removing many of the disadvantages and anomalies which new beset motor transport, passed its second reading in the House of Lords during December. It will come as a surprise to many Australian motorists to learn that, technically, a speed limit of 20 m.p.h. still exists throughout the Kingdom. THIS limit, however, has of late years been most…
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