Diesel Train for S.A. ADELAIDE
The secretary to the Railway Commissioner announced that the department intended shortly to call tenders for a Diesel-engined locomotive, which would be used for…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1936
10,096 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 250
Topics for Women PRESENTATION Graduate Bride Bridge Party
In honor of Miss Rona Nettleship, of Roseville, whose marriage with Mr. Verney Nicholls, of Wollongong, will take place at St. Andrew's Church,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Canberra Train Criticised "Most Uncomfortable and Slowest" Canberra
In criticism of the slow railway service to Canberra, Mr. C. L. A. Abbott, MP., former Minister for Home Affairs, declared to-day that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Toll of the Road Clergyman Hurt In Smash Son Had Been in Accident In Capsize After Visit To Hospital Many Injured
CLOSE escapes from death were experienced by occupants of cars which crashed at Parramatta and Murrurundi…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian Railways Scheme
The Victorian railways will be able to continue operating without restrictions even if the shipping strike is extended to the miners. Supplies of coal sufficient for between three…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Motoring the Chevrolet Six. 1936 Model Reviewed
The new Chevrolet Six supports the forecast that manufacturers in building their 1936 models would not strive for radical innovations, but would follow the wise policy of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Red Hill Railway. Work on First Stage. Adelaide
The first stage of work on the Red Hill-Port Pirie-Port Augusta railway was started this morning, when 120 men employed by the Commonwealth Railways Department began…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Motor Trade in 1936. Prospects of Greater Activity
It is predicted by competent observers of market conditions that there will be marked increases in the sales of new cars and trucks in Australia during 1938. That forecast is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canberra News. Canberra Railway Service. CANBERRA
Mr. C. L. A. Abbott, M.P., a former Minister for Home Affairs, to-day criticised the railway service to Canberra. He said the journey from Goulburn to Canberra—65 miles—occupied…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Eighteen Injured In Tram Collision Off Line Vehicles Thrown Balmain Crash Five to Hospital
IN a sensational smash between two trams at the corner of Commercial-road and Barnes-street, Balmain,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hit Tram Ambulance Waggon
A suburban ambulance car and a tram collided to-day at the corner of Parramatta-road and Dewent-street, Glebe. The ambulance…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hurled From the Line Railway Man's Injury Darwin
Frank Taflin, employed by the Commonwealth Railways, had a narrow escape from death. He was taking a large quad into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Want New Trams St. Peters Presses Its Claims
A reply by the Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, to representations urging the introduction of the new corridor tramcars throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Sales Are Stopped Victorian Railways' Action Melbourne
Although they had been invited to attend a [?]ating convened by the Seamen's Union, representatives of unions at the Trades Hall to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motoring Wisdom
the Euchre Volley, and although these have been temporarily repaired, the reports state that the surface of the road is likely to be rough for some little time, but not…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The World Of Motoring GOGGLES
ARTHUR MEAD has decided that he will not race on the Hartley Vale circuit on Anniversary Day, but will all in his time administering to the wants of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fell in Between Trams Boy Escapes Injury
Although he fell between two trams travelling in opposite directions at the intersection of King and Elizabeth Streets, yesterday, a youth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unknown Man's Death Fell From Tram at Rose Bay
Suffering a fracture of the skull when he fell from a tram in New South Head Road, near Newcastle Street, Rose Bay, on Saturday, an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dies Unidentified Victim of Saturday's Tram Accident
The unknown man who fell from a tram in New South Head Road, Rose Bay, on Saturday died yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tram Strike Off Men Granted Christmas Bonus at Barrier
Advice has been received by the Minister for Labor that the strike on the Silverton Tramway at Broken Hill had been settled, and that the…
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