Roads Drying Up in Tunis London. December 16
According to British patrols in North Africa, Axis forces have again failed to attack north-cast of Meljez Elbab. The weather has improved and with…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
676 stories in Murray's papers · page 34 of 34
Roads in N. GUINEA “Mud All The Time”
“I am quite satisfied there are no bad roads in Conargo Shire, after driving over these in this place (New Guinea), where it is mud all the time,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sinking of President Coolidge Correspondent Views From Aeroplane His Graphic Account New York, December 16
Ira Wolfert, of the North American Newspaper Alliance, saw, from a plane, the 22,000 ton transport, President Coolidge, strike the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Soldiers Killed in Accident Tram Strikes Motor Truck SYDNEY
Two soldiers were killed and two others seriously injured in a collision between a tram and a motor truck in which they were travelling, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Permits for Interstate Travel
The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Harigan) says he has noticed in a number of country newspapers a paragraph stating that, between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Permits for Interstate Travel Sydney
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Hartigan, says he has noticed in a number of country newspapers a paragraph stating that between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Congestion at Albury Railway Station Little Can Be Done, Says Mr. Curtin CANBERRA
Little can be done at present to relieve congestion at Albury railway station, the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) said tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Killed by Train MELBOURNE
Mrs Edith Alma O'Toole, aged 30, of Wilson St., North Carlton, while waiting for her mother, who was buying tickets at the booking window, fell from the plalform of…
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On behalf of Eric Mervyn McAllister, Mr. J. Y. Davidson, at the Police Court to-day, pleaded guilty to a charge of driving an unregistered motor vehicle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Desert Railway is Opened CAIRO, Dec. 21
General Sir Harold Alexander yesterday drove his own train, the locomotive of which [?]ore his flag, when he performed the opening ceremony of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Civilians and Officers Get Sleepers Wounded Have to Sit Up All Night in Train Adelaide
Twenty wounded soldiers back from a fighting front. sat up all last night on the Melbourne express, althou[?] berths in the sleeping car were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Permits for Interstate Travel
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Hartigan, says he has noticed in a number of country newspapers a paragraph stating that,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Many Motor Repair Shops Declared Protected SYDNEY
More than 800 motor repair and engineering workshops throughout NSW have been officially listed as protected undertakings. Of this number, 558 are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wounded Soldiers Did Not Complain Satisfied to Sit Up in Train MELBOURNE
Wounded soldiers who travelled from Melbourne to Adelaide last Tuesday without sleeping births, were willing to sit up the train available, because it would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →26 Hurt in Train Collision SYDNEY
In a terrific collision between two trams at Milson’s Point today, 26 people were Injured by flying glass and splintered woodwork. The passengers were mostly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bush of Civilian Railway Travellers
Albury railway station was thronged by civilian travellers during last week as it had not been for many months. Extra divisions of both…
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