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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1948

811 stories in Murray's papers · page 19 of 41

Cycling Club Midget Takes 20 Mile Road Event

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 9

Bon Howard, the midget rider of the Albury Cycle Club, rode a good race on Saturday to win the 20-miler…

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Victorian Railways Face Biggest Deficit Since 1902 MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 1

The Victorian Government will have to approve increased railway fares’ and freights or meet the mounting running costs from consolidated revenue, according to one of the Railways Commissioners (Mr. Canny) to-day…

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Henty Train Hard

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 12

Henty, after three successive victories, is continuing to train hard, Next Saturday it will play Holbrook at Holbrook…

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Harbor Bridge May Be Declared ‘Black’

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday : Suggestions that Sydney Harbor bridge be declared “black” were made at a meeting of 80 maintenance…

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Annual Railway Picnic

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 3

There is a likelihood of Corowa being selected this year- for the annual sports-Picnic of the Southern District railway employees. Is a number of…

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Scouts to Train at Table Top

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 4

The Scout training course, covering cub, scout and rover sections, which will be held at “Table Top” station next…

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Motoring Pars and Personalities

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 8

A recent visitor to Albury was Mr W. Pardy, country sales manager for Triumph, AJS and Velo-cette motor cycles…

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Motor Races at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 8

Arrangements have been com pleted for the speedway meeting to be held on Albury sportsground next Monday. Club officials are…

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Chinese Tombstone Found in Railway Goods Yard

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 3

Melbourne "Sun" writes:—Eight pieces of a Chinese tombstone, found in the Spencer Street (Melbourne) railway yards on…

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Albury May Get Help for Aerodrome

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thurs.: Minister for Air, Mr Drakeford, said today that £60,000 would be included in next year’s civil…

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North Albury Train Hard

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 10

All North Albury players trained hard this week in readiness for Saturday’s match against Rutherglen at Albury sportsground…

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Cycling Saturday’s Pro. Road Race

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 11

The course for Saturday is the same as the one ridden last week- from Wodonga out to Bethanga Bridge turn-off and return a distance of…

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Crash on Echuca Road Car Turned Over

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

When two vehicles collided on the Echuca road last Saturday evening, one overturned in the centre of a small bridge and blocked traffic for…

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Mr. Healy Blames Railways for Sugar Hold-up

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thins.—The general secretary of the Waterside Workers’ Federation (Mr Healy) said tonight that the…

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Overhead Bridge £7000 Too Much to Alter

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 3

After discussing at length with the City Engineer (Mr Sarvaas) proposals for improvements to the overhead bridge linking Dean st…

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Sequel to Collision; Motor Cyclist Fined

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 3

Sequel to a collision at the truer of Dean and Townsend [?] on April 9 was heard in Albury court yesterday when…

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Refrigerated Vans for Railways

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 7

SYDNEY, Fri.—The Railway Department had started the construction of 70 refrigerated vans so as to speed up the…

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A Railway Fireman Fined

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 5

Pleading guilty to a charge of having on June 9 stolen a quantity of timber, valued at £1, the property or the NSW Railways…

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Some Motorists May Not Get July Petrol

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY. Friday : Thousands of motorists who are required to answer the Liquid Fuel Control Board’s questionnaire arc running…

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Train Services

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 June 1948 · page 1

The metropolitan papers stated on Saturday it was considered likely that country train services would be cut as a result of the present coal shortage…

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