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Broken Hill & the Far West · Railways, roads & transport
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London, January 26.—The Red Army is now advancing along Hitler's famous Reichsautobahnen—the huge motor roads especially constructed to carry, the German Army into the East, says the Berlin radio…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. E. M. Harsington, M.L.A., has received the following from the Minister for Transport: I am writing with further reference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, January 29.—American Army engineers have rehabilitated 7,000 miles of European railways for use as supply routes to the western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the height of the dust storm and because of it. there were considerable delays to trams on both the S.T. Co. and New South Wales lines. One water train…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The urgent need for care in the use not only of tyres, but also of batteries, is stressed by the Department of Supply authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Continuing these attacks on V2 targets in Holland. Spitfire bombers, on January 3, bombed a railway line supplying a V2 area. Pilots of an Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—"Just plain hell!' is how two Sydney seamen described rlife' on the 98-ton motor vessel Mongana, which ' completed three weeks' tow…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MELBOURNE.—A training scheme for volunteers wishing to work in devastated countries, based on Britain's plan for volunteers already in the field,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, February 2.—It will be possible to ride the post-war motor cycle at 100 miles an hour in a summer frock—it will be so clean, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The unsatisfactory running of the Railway Town Buses was the subject of discussion at yesterday's special meeting of the City Council, the bus owners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In an effort to improve the servict of the Railway Town buses, new routes will be planned to cut out the "overlapping" which has allegedly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—In a judgment given in the Special Federal Court today Mr. Atkinson, S.M., convicted the Railways Commissioner on charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, February 7—Marshal Zhukov's Armies, today captured a German stronghold three miles east of Frankfurt on the Oder, the bastion of Berlin's outer defences. Moscow has not yet officially announced the crossing of the Oder (admitted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, February 7.—General Hodge's troops yesterday fought their way to within half a mile of the Siefried Line strongpoint of Schleiden, which is a junction of five roads. The troops near Schleiden are in contact with outpost positions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Railway Town Red Cross will hold its first meeting for 1945 at the Burke Ward Hall on Tuesday. There are many financial members who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A motor car and motor van collided yesterday afternoon. There was only slight damage to the vehicles and no one was hurt…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lithgow, February 9.—An attempt to detail the train on the Portland Piper's Flat line far[?]ed this morning. A ganger patrolling the track [?] 8 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Town, after losine their first wicket with no runs on the board in the match against Marist Bros. on No. 1 wicket at the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The new rail bridge which has been erected to take the place of the one destroyed in the recent derailment has been completed and was brought into use for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PERTH.—The first Perth tram conductor ever to refuse to make up an alleged shortage in Us takings appeared in the Indust dal Court on a…
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