Motor Driver on Theft Charge SYDNEY
Following the alleged theft of a key to [?] in Sussex st., Leslie Thomas Anderson aged 20, motor driver was charged with having broken and entered the [?]…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
611 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 31
Oaklands Railway
At a meeting of the Yarrawonga District Development League recently, a letter was received from the Oaklands Progress Association…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Road Accident Child Killed near Lithgow
SYDNEY, Friday: When a motor lorry, carrying members of Jehovah's Witnesses to a convention at Katoomba, got out of control, and…
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Sir Harold Clapp is entitled to the fullest appreciation for the competent manner in which he has presented his recommendations for the uniflication…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →England To In[?] Ex-deniliquin Train[?]
(Extract from letters written by a Flight Sergeant-Pilot, formerly in England, now posted to India, to a friend in Deniliquin. He was a trainee at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Building a Road on Bougainville
Road construction in [?] Bougainville.—Engineers setting a charge on TNT on a [?] Left to right. [?] R.C. Stopp. of [?] Spr V.F. Thompson, of Lalbert…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Tram-men Strike. London
Many parts of London this morning were deprived of train and trolley bus services when a number of deports struck as a [?] against the introduction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bridge Over a Bougainville Creek
Engineers driving spikes lo secure the wooden decking of a 25-ton steel frame bridge across Dawe Creek. in Southern Bougainville…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railwaymen Seek Extra Leave SYDNEY
Officials of the ARU. today asked the Minister for Transport (Mr O’Sullivan) and the Commissioner for Railways (Mr Hartigan) for one week additional…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →“Monty” Opens the 1000th BRIDGE
Field Marshal Montgomery recently opened the 1000th Bailey bridge built on the Continent by British sappers since D-Day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bridge Will Perpetuate Pioneer’s Name SYDNEY
Officially opening the new Haw[?]bury river road bridge yesterday [?] Minister for Transport (Mr [?] named [?] George [?] Bridg[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men and Scenes on the Road to Victory
(1) Mr [?] Churchill watched by Mr John Winant. the American Ambassador [?] the agreement by which Great Britain leases Atlantic [?] in the United States for 99 years. (2) Bomb damage in The Strand London…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Municipal Council Railways And Sewerage
Victorian Railways Department is again delaying action with regard to sewerage installations at the local railway station. In a letter last night the department coolly intimated that it was shelving action until next year ! The time-worn excuse is lack of manpower and materials…
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Trains will not run in the metropolitan area tomorrow. The executive or the ABU decided on this action this afternoon, because the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Normal Train Services from To-day Railwaymen’s V-E Day “Holiday” SYDNEY
Normal train services will run from midnight tonight, Railway men, at a mass meeting this afternoon, decided to report back for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jockey and Son Killed Car Hit By Train at Level Crossing MELBOURNE
The well-known Jockey Herbert Morris and his 18-year-old son James Morris, were killed in a level crossing accident near Dandenong this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fanatical Attacks by Japs, Wire Stacked With Dead (From Bob Nelson, on Buin Road, Bouganville)
Barbed wire around the perimeter of our advance troops on southern Bougainville this afternoon is stacked with Japanese dead. By nightfall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Railway Station Obsolete. in Opinion of Champer of Commerce
Albury railway station, erected some 70 years ago, is regarded by the Chamber of Commerce as obsolete and quite unsuitable for dealing with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tracks For Starving Dairy Cattle N.S.W. Railways Refused to Supply on Demand
NSW Railways have refused a request by Mr Roy Wale, secretary of the Albury and Wodonga Milk Producers’ Association, to provide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Adelaide’s Trams May Be Held Up ADELAIDE. Sunday
All Adelaide tramway services are threatened with a hold-up, as a result of a long-standing dispute with the Municipal Tramways Trust…
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