Train Strikes Car. Level Crossing Accident. WAGGA
A man and his two sons had a remarkable escape from death this afternoon, when a goods train crashed into a motor car at the railway crossing near Corembob…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1931
8,292 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 250
Train Wreckers Persist Shots and Obstructions Lighgow
It would appear that determined efforts are being made on the part of some person or persons to wreck trains and damage railway property on the Blue…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Alterations Floods Hold Up North Coast Services
BECAUSE of the floods, the 7.30 Brisbane limited express will run to-night via Wallangarra. The usual Saturday night service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Crossing Smash Escapes Car Run Down By Train Three Injured [?]
THREE occupants of a car had a narrow escape from death when the vehicle was run down by a goods train at a level…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Previous Floods. In Brisbane. Gunboat in the Gardens. Wreck of Victoria Bridge
The most destructive floods recorded in the Brisbane River occurred some 40 yeais ago, in the eighties and nineties. There is an extensive watershed extending from Enoggera up to…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motors and Motoring Tractor School Instruction for Farmers at Low Fees
LECTURES and practical demonstrations in the care, adjustment, repair and driving of many makes of tractors will be given at the eighth tractor school…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Problems of the Motorist Bearings and How to Repair Them
BEARINGS play a most important part in the make-up of the motor car. In the car innumerable shafts are called upon to rotate in their housings silently…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Notes Concessions to Excursionists During February
THE excursion arrangements just announced include cheap travel to and from the country. Tickets available for return within two calendar months will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Captain's Flat Immediate Start on Railway Urged
A meeting at Queanbeyan decided that a deputation should wait upon the Premier (Mr. Lang) to urge upon him the necessity of an immediate start being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Splendid Record Rudge Motor Cycle Excels in Competitive Events
Riding a Rudge, Jimmy Pringle won the 200 mile Australian Tourist Trophy at Phillip Island on Monday. His average speed was 65.2 miles an hour, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motor Cycling Riders in Record-Breaking Form at Sydney Royal
Racing of a high standard was witnessed at the Speedway Royal (Sydney) last Saturday night. A match race between Victor Huxley, world's champion…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motorists of Note People that are Prominent in the Motoring World
A DISTINGUISHED motor man, Mr. S. G. K. Smallbone, director and secretary of Morris Motors, Limited, England, is at present on a visit to Australia. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Railway Garden at Night
Through the soot and dust of the railway Rise clumps of pointing spears, And the lavender holds her perfume As the dresses of faded years…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Excursions
The escursion arrangements announced by the Railway Department include cheap travel to and from the country. Tickets available for return within two calendar months will…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Outing for Orphans
More than 100 orphan children of the St. Brigid's Orphanage, Ryde, will be given a picnic by the Shell Automobile Club this afternoon. Forty cars, lent for the afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motor Boating. World's Record
C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., have received advice that on December 14, on the River Medina, Cowes, Isle of Wight, Mr. Charles Harrison, driving Mr. J. W. Shillan's outboard motor boat,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Ships in Trouble. Lighter Rammed and Sunk. Motorship Aground. Brisbane
Caught in the flooding tide as it rounded Kangaroo Point this morning, the motorship Momba, of 5000 tons, rammed and sunk the 100-ton lighter Advance, moored alongside the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Vehicles. Registrations in Australia
According to the State registrations, there were 650,056 motor vehicles of all kinds in the Commonwealth on December 31 last. Of these, New South Wales had 237,547, or…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Motor Car Stolen
Leaving his motor car, containing goods worth £450, for a few minutes on Thursday Rey Cook, of Wallace-street, Burwood, returned to find it had been stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Woman's Arm Fractured by Motor Car
Phocbe Ordill, 58, of Marsden Street Granville, knocked down by a car [?] Church Street, Parramatta, last night suffered a fractured left arm and facial…
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