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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
6,386 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 250
One of the derailed carriages of the north-west mail. The accident occurred yesterday afternoon, when the locomotive ' struck thermite-welding gear on the track near Ourimbah. None of the passengers was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Motorists' travelling along Prince's Highway between Wollongong and Klama may bo interested in the suggestion advanced by the N.lt.M.A…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Kogarah Council was informed at its last meeting by Bexley Council that the Minister for Transport had intimated that, although the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An important issue that is of considerable interest to all councils, Public Works Department, and Main Roads Board, came before Mr. C. Pickup, P.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In a report to the George's River Bridge committee of Sutherland Shire Council, the tollmaster, Mr. F. Stratford, stated that during the New Year…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AS briefly mentioned in the second edition of last issue, Constable Harold William Sturgiss (36), of Penrith Police Force, died…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crashing into oxy-welding apparatus on the railway line, four miles south, of Wyong, late yesterday, the north- western mail train was derailed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A SERIOUS industrial upheaval threatens in the north following the failure of a call-up yesterday for 350 men for road camp work at Bulladelah. Using the big-stick methods for which he is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At daylight to-day, breakdown gangs began the task of replacing the engine and four carriages of the north…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →OCCASIONALLY you meet a dowdy woman or a girl who hasn't the slightest idea how to make the most of herself. But they are rare birds…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Many passengers were hurled from their seats when the locomotive, one carriage, and the luggage anti mail vans of the north-west mail were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police believe that a story of unrequited love lies behind the death of Leslie Geroge Scorgie 17. of Whecney Creek, near Kurrajong who was found on the Kurrajong Road…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Lord Castlestewart, seventh earl of the line, and big London company director, arrived in Sydney yesterday on a business trip…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PONTIAC models for 1939, known as the "Silver Arrow" and "Chieftain," come with no great radical changes in style to separate this year's model sharply from previous ones, and, as the 1939 catalogue says, will not leave owners lamenting their…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →TWO thousand persons in one day witnessed a Sydney demonstration arranged by Hastings. Deezing Pty., Ltd., of a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →DURING a safety week in Leicester, England, 50 errand-boys took part in a safety trial on bicycles. IN commemoration of J. B. Dunlop's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The average motorist is apt to associate high compression with performance or "pep" alone. Admittedly performance is important under modern…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →George Stanley Cook, of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, and George Frederick Danaher, formerly of Waratah, who were charged in the Traffic Court yesterday with…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Alexander McKenzie, 21, of Little Bay Road, Matraville, was collecting fares on a tram in Botany Road, Mascot, yesterday, when he slipped and fell to the road. He received…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sir,—There have been many complaints in the Press during the past few days because the Railway Commissioners have decided on a 10 per cent, rise in rail fares. This increase…
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