Road Accidents. Car Skids on Hood. Woman Injured
After coming into collision with a lorry in Pennant Hills Road, Penshurst, yesterday, a sedan car overturned and skidded on its hood for several yards…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1939
6,386 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 250
Ship Damaged by Storm. Logs Washed Off. Seas Sweep Bridge
Battered by a storm which lasted a week, the British freighter, Jersey (4,986 tons), bore many marks of the ordeal when she reached Sydney from…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Progress in New Guinea. Gold Production. Plans for New Road
Mr. J. Kmt[?]chni[?] chairman of director of the New Guinea Goldfields. Ltd., who [?] been on a visit to Wau, returned by the Bulolo yesterday to meet Lord Castle Stewart…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →400,000 Children On The Road Back 60,000 Enter High Schools
Four hundred thousand children go back to school this morning. About 300.000 will attend State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hungry Refugees Choke Spain's Roads Trek in Bitter Cold Tragic Scenes In Rail Tunnel At French Border LONDON
STARVING, and frequently machine-gunned from the air, tens of thousands of refugees from Barcelona continue to choke the roads leading north to the French border…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring. New Racing Car. Italian Design. Smart Appearance
An interesting example of a modern 1½ litre racing car was brought to Australia just prior to Christmas by a South Australian driver, Mr. R. P. Tilbrook, to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Spooner Again Relief Labor For Railway SYDNEY
Mr. Spooner, Minister for Works, has announced that the City Railway. which has been hung up for so long by the red…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tram-truck Crash
MELBOURNE, Monday.--Nine persons were injured, one seriously, when a motor truck came into collision with a tram at Middle Park to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Horrors" For Motorists
AMERICAN "HORROR" POSTERS designed to instil safety-first practices into motorists. Traffic authorities find that their sordid Character commands attention. Top poster, recently chosen, won a £250 first prize. Lower poster came second…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bridging Road
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) has promised to have special inquiries made into the practicability of providing an overhead bridge for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tragic Train Death
LEANING out of an electric train, a boy was killed instantly at Dulwich Hill railway station last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed on Train
A youth who was killed late yesterday, when his head struck a steel stanchion at Dulwich Hill Station, was identified this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Extremely Dangerous" Liverpool Bridge
That a bridge in Orange Grove-road, Liverpool, was in an extremely dangerous condition, was stated by the town clerk (Mr. J. Marsh) at Liverpool Council last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road "Like Soap"
Because the road at the junction of Burnett and Bretnall-streets, Merrylands. was impassable in wet weather, he had serious difficulty with his car, Mr. P…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Killed on Train
A youth, aged about 17, whose name is believed to be Robson, was killed yesterday morning when he leaned out of the window of a moving train near the Dulwich Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Boy Swept From Train
An unidentified youth was killed yesterday when he fell from a train near Dulwich Hill railway station. A provisional railway ticket in his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grim Question to Roads Department
How many fatal motor-accidents must occur because of the narrowing of Parramatta-road, Granville, before the road is widened?…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Left Bag and £35 in Train
A blue handbag containing £35 was left behind by Mrs. Edna Robson, of Trongate-street. Granville, when she alighted at Granville from a Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Jim Pike to Train Lord Bine
Randwick trainer Jim Pike has taken over Lord Bine. The Queenslander is in the private sale list. Lord Bine's owner…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Holiday Accidents on the Road
Walking across Western-rood, Westmead, on Monday—he had just slighted from a car—Aubrey Cornwell (17), of King-street, Newtown, was struck by a…
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