Railway Guard Eaten by Wolves. Bucharest. Jan. 13
Wolves attacked and ate a railway guard, who was on his way home from a local station near Targovlste. They left only his clothes, boots, and a lantern, by means of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
7,611 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250
Motorist Put Town in Darkness Gosford
THAT Malcolm Terry Hughes, 28, while driving a truck, knocked down an electric light pole in Woy Woy and threw the town into darkness for two hours, was stated in evidence at the Gosford Police Court to-day, by Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quay Railway Awaits Funds
In the City Railway extension at Circular Quay, all cylinder work under the present schedule has been completed, and all work will cease in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Railway Wheels' Mad Dash Pedestrians Have Many Narrow Escapes Much Damage Newcastle, Thurs
SEVERAL persons, including a number of children, narrowly escaped injury and probably death, this morning, when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Overboard From Motorship Third Loss in Two Weeks
FOR the third time in a little over a fortnight ships have arrived in Sydney alter having lost one of their crew overboard. While…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motorists Who Make Motor Cars
An investigation recently conducted by the Austin motor concern revealed that over 800 cars were used by employees of the factory for their…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →To-day's Controversy Is Our Railway System Defective? Feeding Parasites
Sir,--The bugbear on the shoulders of the Railway authorities is the huge debt to be paid investors on our loans. Let us pay them off by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Industrial News Compensation For Holiday Work Tram and Bus Men's Request Department To Consider
IN reply to the joint representations of the Tramway Employees and Bus Employees' Unions for the granting of special concessions in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Benefits of "Pay As You Ride" Scheme Motor-cycling Now Possible for Everybody
LOW deposits with small weekly payments have made motor-cycling possible for everybody. It is estimated that approximately 75 per cent, of the motor-cycles registered in New South Wales are either be…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Matters of Moment to Motor Cyclists The Clubman's Column Annondole-Leichhordt
Next Sunday a dirt track meeting will be held at St. Ives Showground. Members meet on the course at 9.30. Early points 9.15 a.m. Officers elected for the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →MOTORING and Motor Cycling Section Tourist Centre of the Week Tumut, Tree Town Of The Monaro
AWAY to the south, in the mountainous Monaro district of New South Wales, nestles the picturesque town of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Sat on Tramline: Overcrowding Protest
NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- Relief workers in a Wallsend-bound tram got out and sat on the line today as a protest against overcrowding…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aeroplane Crashes Into Surf
A PLANE in which Harold C. Durant was stunting over North Cronulla beach today went into A spin at 250…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge Pylon Exhibition
The exhibition at the South-eastern pylon on the Harbour Bridge is open daily from 10 a.m till 5.30 p.m. The lens of the electrically-operated camera obscurs enables andy seen within its range…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy Falls From Bridge
R. Mutton, 6, of Elliott Street. Enfield, was playing on a bridge over the Cook's River yesterday, when be fell about 20 feet to a concrete surface. His skull was fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Boy Trapped Under Bridge Melbourne
While people flashed torches from a boat on the Murray at Echuca last night. Constable W. Gale climbed 80 feet along the girders beneath the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jumped From Moving Train. Bulli
At Bulli Police Court to-day, Roy Swan, a young man, of Coledale, was fined £2 for leaving a train while in motion. Inspector Case said that when the train…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pooley Bridge, 5--1 Good Win on Flat Black Mac's Finish MELBOURNE
Champion Hurdler Pooley Bridge returned to the winning list at Caulfield to-day, when he took the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Toll Of The Road Four Fatally Injured Man Killed As car Capsizeis
FOUR persons died yesterday from injuries received in road accidents. A man lost his life in a car capsize near Dalgety, another fell in front of a lorry in the city, while a child and an elderly woman-died from injuries in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Midland Railway of W. A.
Mr. W. Sandford Poole, presiding at the annual meeting of the Midland Railway Co. of Western Australia, Ltd., said that. considering that the past year was one of the worst the…
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