Burma Road Open Soon ? CHUNGKING, January 20
The Central Newsagency reported that the Chinese after a fortnight’s bitter fighting on Saturday recaptured Wanting, on the Burma Road, the last…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
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Public Train Travel Suspended In Germany LONDON, Jan. 20
Berlin radio has broadcast new details of emergency decrees which, says Reuter. virtually suspended all civilian railway services throughout Germany as from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Red Army Fighting On Soil Of Germany Proper Many Resounding Victories Announced Defences Breaking On Road To Koenigsberg LONDON, January 21
The Red Army is on the soil of Germany proper, according to the German Radio, which quoted a High Command report that the Russians had reached the area of Namslau. six miles inside Germany and 28 miles east of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Caught at Albury Railway Station Escapee From Victorian Internment Camp Only One Nazi Now at Large
Viktor Somann, 33, mercantile navy officer, and the second last of 20 German officers who escaped from a Victorian Internment camp…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycle Skids
When Mr J. H. Montgomery, of Rutherglen, was returning to his home in Rutherglen during the weekend from Mulwala, the motor bike he was riding,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crashed Bus Into Train Depot Gate MELBOURNE
Believing that his Girl friend with whom he had had a tiff, was in the company of a tramway driver, Kevin Harries, 17, started a bus which crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Full Train Services When Coal Position Improves Sydney
There would be no chance of restoring all country train services together with sleepers until coal production improves, said a Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tram Stoppage May Be Averted MELBOURNE
Stoppage of Melbourne’s trams next Saturday, when unionists propose to hold a mass meeting, may be averted. Judge Drake Brockman, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Billabong Creek Bridge
The Minister for Transport has advised Mr A. Mair, MLA, that he is contacting the Commissioner for Railways concerning the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General Damage to Roads
By advertisement in this issue, the Shire Council directs attention to the liability of drovers and owners of stock, particularly cattle, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Derailed Near Merrylands SYDNEY
A Sydney-bound electric train which loft Liverpool at 1.43 p.m. became derailed near Merrylands tuition today. The train was comprised of eight cars and the leading car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ledo Road Construction New York. Jan. 23
[?] Durdin, of the New York “Times,” in a despatch from North Burma, says that American engineering units built the Ledo Road at a cost, according to some estimates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Called Off Stopwork Meeting of Tram Men MELBOURNE
The stopwork meeting of tramway employes, which threatened lo .leave Melbourne without tram services next Saturday, has been abandoned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Air Travel for Train Fare
The small New Zealand seaside resort of Paraparaumu grew into a busy town overnight when hundreds of travel priority holders embarked in and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japs May Leave Burma No Threat to Ledo Road
CHUNG KING. Thursday: General Wedemeyer told a Press Conference that the Japanese were apparently withdrawing from Burma. He does…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Low-level Attack on Philippine Railway
Lips-rail junction on Luzon under attack by medium bombers of General Kenney’s Fifth Air Force. The repair shop at left has been riddled with 50 calibre slugs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Government Proud of Railways’ Safety Record” SYDNEY
A department investigation into the Merrylands train smash would be started immediately, said the Premier (Mr McKell) today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.S.W. Railways Service Being Reviewed
The partial restoration of N.S.W. rail services, possibly next month, is under review by Federal and State authorities. Among the first services likely to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lieut-Colonel Pulled Tram Driver’s Nose ADELAIDE
For pulling the drivers nose when he failed to stop a team Lieut-Col B. Doig, of Keswick, was fined [?] in the City Court today. It was stated that while the tram…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Jumps From Railway Bridge
Bert Castels, single, aged 24, laborer, of South Gundagai, was killed yesterday when he jumped 40ft. off a railway bridge over the Murrumbidgee at…
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