Another Train Mishap on Mountains Line
Another hold-up on the Blue Mountains section of the railway system was experienced yesterday morning. Due to engine trouble causing a…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1934
9,505 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 250
Road Trains. Proposed Test in Australia
Public interest has been aroused by the announcement that a special road train will shortly be landed in Australia and undergo practical trials. The train has been developed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spooner Is In It Again! Cheap Train Fares
THE Assistant-Treasurer, Mr. Spooner, who has already been in holts with local governing bodies in his capacity as Minister for Local Government, may shortly be involved in a disagreement with the Railway Department…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Young Man's Death. Struck by Overhead Bridge. HARDEN
Leonard Walter Hoy, 20 of Mentone (Vic.), died in a local hospital from a fractured skull suffered when his head hit an overhead railway bridge while he and two other…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →City Smash Tram, Motor Car Seven Injured All in Hospital
SEVEN people were injured early to-day in a collision between the motor car in which they were riding and a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bashed Head on Bridge Man's Body Found on Engine Tender Harden
LEONARD WALTER HOY, 20, who was found lying unconscious on top of the coal in the tender of a goods train when it arrived here,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bus Weighing Six and a Half Tons Crashes Through Wall of Home in Coogee Bay-road, Coogee
Left: The bus, which ran unattended down the hill and crashed through the front wall of the home of Mrs. N. A. Stephens, is shown being hauled out by another bus. Right: The damage caused in the lounge-room of the residence. Marie Cousins, 9, and Charles Stephens, 4, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motorists' Escape. Wentworth Falls
Several men and women travelling in a sedan car along the Megalong Valley road on Sunday afternoon narrowly escaped being crushed to death when a large mountain ash…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Motoring. Championship Meeting
For the first time for several years, a motor car championship meeting will be held on the Maroubra Speedway on Saturday afternoon, promoted by the New South Wales Light Car Club in aid of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →District Court. (Before Judge White.) Motor Collision
Kenneth Maurice Canvln of Shelcove-road, Neutral Bay. Sought to recover from John Percival Miller of Dudley-street Coogee £200 damages for injuries received as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cycling. Bexley Motor Cycle Club
The Bexley and District Motor Cycle Club's handicap acceleration test for the Castrol Cup at the week-end, resulted:- W. Reid (Indian). 17 l-10s, 1; R. Heuschkel…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Motorists and Petrol Tax
Thousands of windscreen stickers of a uniform design are being distributed to the principal motoring organisations throughout Australia by the Australian Automobile…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring Wheel Skids. Prevention and Cure
Although almost every car driver has had some practical experience of skidding and a majority are aware of the generally accepted mles-of-thumb which should be observed for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorist's Death. Collapse at Wheel of Car
Alfred Hedges, 59, of Bland-street, Ashfield, was driving his motor car along Parramattaroad, Ashfield, yesterday afternoon, when he collapsed at the wheel…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New States Cost of Railway Service
Giving evidence before the New States Commissioner (Mr. H. S. Nicholas, M.L.C.) to-day, Mr. Albert George Dennis, chief traffic manager…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cigarette Case for Motorists
At Anthony Horderns' tobacco department, George Street, ground floor, there is an interesting novelty -- a motorist's cigarette case. It has an…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Railway Log Discussion Unions and Mass Meeting Protest
Representatives of the biggest unions in the railway service will meet to-night, to discuss a mass meeting protest against the Rail…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MOTORING Feeding the Railways Road drains Can Be Valuable Auxiliaries
Prolonged experiments have been made by the British Oversea Mechanical Transport Directing Committee, in England and in Africa, with a special design of road train,…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Heart Failure Deaths in Tram and Train
Heart fuilure claimed two victims--one in a tram and one in a train--yesterday. About 1.15 p.m. Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Centennial Park Neglected Roads
Randwick Council will co-operated with Woollahra in approaching the Department of Agriculture to urge the repairing of the road surfaces in…
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