A stranger finds the Harbor Bridge
SOME days ago I climbed on top of the pylon of the Harbor Bridge -- not for the first time and not alone…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1940
4,268 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 214
Attempt to Derail Train Wingham
An attempt to derail the passenger train to Sydney, which arrives at Wingham at 9.10 p.m., was made last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Can Park Motors at Railways
The Department .of- Railways has provided car, lorry and motor-cycle parking facilities at Chatswood, St. Leonards, Turramurra, Hornaby, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Causes in No. 6 COURT. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Barton and a jury.) Tram Car Collision
The hearing was commenced of a claim by Henry Jennens, aged 63, against the Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways for damages, arising out of a tramway…
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Mr. F. Harris's trophies will be competed for this afternoon at Rose Bay by the Royal Motor Yacht Club of New South Wales. Starting times, which are subject to the movements of the flying…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Tram Men Restive Reprisal For Grievances
A proposal to stop all trams at conditional, as well as permanent, stopping places will be brought…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Facilities for Parking Suburban Railway Stations
Parking facilities have been provided by the Railway Department at Chatswood. St. Leonards, Turramurra. Hornsby and Parramatta…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motoring News New Features on Bigger De SOTOS
For 1940 De Soto again markets two models, the De Soto Six and the De Soto Senior Six. From the drafting rooms and engineering laboratories, these…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →I read in the news Rights In Writing. . .Trams Or Buses? . . . Salesman . . . Corio And After
SPEAKING at Newport last weekend, Mr. Justice Evatt urged that we should put into the Constitution…
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N.R.M.A. officials declare that the State Government's proposal to increase the Harbor Bridge toll would inevitably defeat its own ends…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Enchanted Aeroplane Read This First
Joan, who is on a visit, to Fairyland with Fairy Rose and the fairy aviator, Flying Leaf, has entered the castle of the wicked. Prince Stinging Nettle. She has come to rescue the butterflies who are prisoners in the castle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Train Trucks Derailed
WRECKED. When couplings of a wheat train parted on a down grade at White Bay yesterday, the front truck was derailed, smashing two others and putting five more off the line. No one was injured…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Guest of honor will train as nurse
Miss Barbara Cary's friends were invited to a dance last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Baldick, at Bellevue Hill, to give her a gay send-off before she begins her training as a nurse…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Boy Clung Six Hours to Bridge LAUNCESTON
Darcy Hampden, 11, of Ulverston, clung to a beam under a bridge for six hours, in constant danger of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Driver's Diary Rambles From the Road You'll find it pleasant hiking to Gundah Trig
Scores of walking tracks branch from the Pacific Highway between Hornsby and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Vacuum Motor Spirit
ON the withdrawal of super grade spirit the Vacuum Oil Company Pty. Ltd., will meet the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Railway Station Parking Fee 1s
The Railway Department's new scheme for providing parking space at certain stations for motor vehicles is now being tried…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tramway go-slow protest plan
Tramway employees may shortly stop trams at conditional, as well as permanent, stopping places, as a protest against "vicious punishments" for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Young Man Arrested on Bridge
A constable saw a young man taking off his coat on the southern approach to the Harbour Bridge last night. When he questioned him, the man is alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Skull Fractured in Road Accident
Elsie Pitt, 7, of Holterman Street, Crow's Nest, suffered a fractured skull and lacerations to the arm, when she was struck by a motor car in Falcon…
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