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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
6,386 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 250
Now we know all about that "luxury liner" starred in recent mystery advertising. With their promise of economical, all-year-round pleasure cruising, the announcements conjured up the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Charles Wood, 50, a railway fettler, who lived in Jersey Street, Hornsby, was run down by an engine while inspecting the railway line a Normanhurst yesterday. He was so…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Ambrose Dixon, 21 of Stanmore, was fatally injured when his motor cycle outfit collided with a telegraph pole about three miles from yanderra yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Silver Anniversary models of the Dodge, so' named because 1939 is the 25th year of production, have an entirely new frontal appearance, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A sports car owned by Mr. N Keats. O[?] Ballina, was destroyed by fire in a garage in River Street early on Saturday morning The Ballina Fire Brigade, on entering the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →During a heavy thunderstorm, which broke over Tenterfield early this afternoon, the telegraphic wiring system at the railway station fused. The wooden ceiling of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →An offer to make available to the Federal Government for munition-making, should the necessity arise,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A well-attended meeting of men employed in the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops was addressed by Mr. Oakey, of the Defence League, during lunch time…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charles Woods, 56, fettler, Jersey Street, Hornsby, was killed yesterday when he was struck by an engine near the Normanhurst railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A works programme under which 20 miles of connecting roads will be tar-surfaced is commencing. The work will be carried out under the Spooner half-loan, half-grant…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Reconstruction work on the State highway, from Lower Coldstream Bridge to the boundary of Harwood and Orara Shires, a distance of about 6½ miles, will probably be commenced…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →By appointment of new recruits, and the transfer of officers at present engaged on extraneous duties, the effective strength of the police force will be increased…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mobile police stations, with "cells" and tents are to be used to assist the police in coping with traffic and other offences. There will be 21 of these units, and they will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Munitions Board has announced that since July 1 last the United States had not permitted the sale to Japan of aeroplanes and aerial ammunition…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →There are new road signs in Canberra. All the morning workmen have been busy nailing large white boards printed in red…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sir,—I have always contended that payment tor the Bridge should never have been localised. The new year reductions on half-yearly and yearly tickets should be applicable…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Eighty-eight additional police are to be appointed as soon as possible to enable more rigid traffic control in country and metropolitan areas…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Discussing the suggestion that the control of hoardings should be vested in one authority, representatives of the Main Roads Department explained yesterday that the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A deadlock has been reached in a dispute between the Federal authorities and the Drummoyne Council over the erection of an automatic telephone…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →To overcome the problem of emerging from a narrow entry into a busy road, where vision is cut off sideways until the whole of the front of the car…
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