Tram and Bus Plans
LAST-MINUTE, tram, and bus arrangements for today were released by the Transport Department last night…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
7,611 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 250
Overhead Bridge for Parramatta-road
To ensure the safety of persons crossing the Parramatta-road at North Auburn an overhead bridge is to be constructed near the North Auburn public…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aerodrome Runway Scheme Completed
A circular concrete strip, spanned by a broad sunway bearing the name Orange, has been laid down on the Orange aerodrome…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Allawah Railway Bridge
The Railway Department has informed Hurstville Council that the request for alterations to the Allawah overhead bridge, to provide better…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Closing of Roads
The following roads are is be closed by Holroyd Council pending repairs the alternate routes being given in parenthesis Military-road, between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Windsor Road
Residents and travellers in the district are very indignant concerning the slow pate of progress being made with the reconstruction of the Windsor Road…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rotten Fruit on Roads
"Rotten fruit is being dumped along Princes Highway and in the side tracks each week-end, the stench becoming unbearable," complained…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bridge at North Brighton
The Water and Sewerage Board has made an offer to Rockdale Council in reply to representations made for the construction of a bridge over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wallangarra Road. Tenterfield
The Wallangarra road is to be proclaimed a main road, after years of continued representations to the Department of Main Roads that the traffic on the road from Tenterfield…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Toll Of The Road Fatal Motor Cycle Skids Three Men Killed
THREE motor cyclists were fatally injured yesterday afternoon when they were flung headlong after their machines skidded and crashed at Camden, Newcastle and Hartley. One struck a fence with such force that the shoes were torn from his feet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rockdale Station Access. Another Bridge Wanted
"This is the same old stereotyped reply," said the Mayor of Rockdale (Alderman Beehag) at the last council meeting when the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge at Lugarno. Still Being Investigated
Further steps were made at the last meeting of Sutherland Shire Council on the proposal of constructing a bridge over George's River at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LETTERS. 132 Edgecliff Road, Woollahra
My dear Gumblossom,—It being so near Christmas, I am again taking up my pen to write to you. Many months ago I saw my last letter in print, which I…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →Woman Drowned. Fall from Bridge. MELBOURNE
For more than two hours last night, the police searched the Yarra River below Prince's Bridge for a woman who had fallen 30 feet from the parapet. Constable A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Catholic Youths' Wireless League. the Wheatstone's Bridge
For testing and measuring the resistance of coils, an apparatus named after the English scientist, Wheatstone, and called a "Wheatstone Bridge," is used. While…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ice Wrecks Bridge At Niagara MONTREAL
The worst ice jam on record swept away the Niagara Falls bridge, linking the United States and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rockdale's Historic Road. Scheme for Improvement
Action is being taken by Rockdale Council to have West Botany Street declared either a main or secondary main road, so that it can be improved…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →George’s River Bridge. Quarter-million Traffic Increase
In his annual report to the Sutherland Shire Council, the tollmaster of the George’s River Bridge, Mr. F. Stratford, states that the number of vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Days of the Bullock Dray. Hard and Rough Roads
A vehicle that deserves a place in this year's celebrations, even more than the coaches of Cobb and Co., is the two-wheeled bullock-dray, the ancestral carriage that…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Lifesavers "Rescued." Bare Feet on Hot Road
Positions were slightly reversed yesterday when lifesavers whose self-imposed duty is the rescue of Sydney's holiday crowds, were themselves "rescued" from acute discomfort…
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