Man Killed When Train Hits Cycle Second Rider Saved By Grabbing Buffer
LITHGOW, Tuesday. — James McDermott, of Mudgee, received fatal injuries when a motor cycle on which he was riding was struck…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
652 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 33
Only One Town Now Bars Use of Burma Road
NEW YORK, Wednesday: The United Press correspondent at Chungking says that a patrol from the Chinese 1st Army in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.s. Artillery, Jap Tanks in Battle for Road on Luzon Plain
NEW YORK, Wednesday: On the American left flank on Luzon artillery is taking a heavy toll of the Japanese stubbornly holding the ridges commanding the enemy's only remaining…
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Mr K. M. Dash, P.M., at Grafton W Court, fined William Robertson, of Kyogle, £10, for allowing his taxi-cab to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aerodrome Site Survey
To investigate the potentialities of various sites for an aerodrome to serve the Tweed, and also the possibility of using the…
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CQBAKI, Friday.—The Acting Engineer to Woolburn Shire Council (Mr. S. R. Eastment) yesterday met a deputation of landholders…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →150 Killed in French Train Crash
PARIS, Friday (AAP). — One hundred and fifty persons were Skilled and 200 injured yesterday when a train crashed through the…
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Estimates of income and expenditure for 1945 based on a general rate of 3d in the £ on the unimproved capital value were formally…
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LONDON, Friday: One hundred and fifty were killed and 200 injured yesterday at Saint Vallery station, near Dieppe (France)…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday. — A train comprising an engine and two trucks was taken from Moree locomotive sheds on…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday: A train, composed of an engine and two trucks, was taken from the Moree locomotive shed last night, and driven 18 miles towards Gurley, before it was abandoned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Allies Capture Pacific Railway
LUUZON, Sunday. —For the first time in the Pacific war, Allied troops have the use of…
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TAMWORTH, Monday: The unusual incident at Moree at the weekend, when a locomotive and two trucks from Moree shed, were…
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Australian engineers operating in the Aitape area found easier to strip to place huge logs in position as the forerunner to bridge construction…
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MOREE, Monday.—Ernest John Slick, a railway employee; William Bray Bartlett and George Boyce. employed in the Moree…
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KANDY, Monday: Chinese under Lieut, General Sultan, of the U.S., from Burma have joined up with Chiang…
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KANDY, Monday (AAP).— A communique issued at South-east Asia Command Headquarters today announced that Chinese troops under General Sultan's command in Burma had linked up with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thrust Swiftly on Direct Road to Berlin Drives Into East Prussia, Silesia
LONDON, Monday: The progress of Marshal Zhukov's mighty thrust in the centre of the Eastern front, direct for Berlin, is revealed by a Moscow communique, which states that he has reached and captured Sompolno, 65 miles northwest of Lodz (captured on Friday). Marshal Zhukov is using…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Philippines Junction On Road To Manila Falls Airfields Taken From our correspondents and A.A.P.
LUZON ISLAND, Monday.—American invasion forces on Luzon Island have captured the big road and rail centre of Tarlac, only 63 air miles from Manila, capital of the Philippines. Two aerodromes were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Service Restorations in View
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Partial restoration of train services in New South Wales and the attachment of sleeping cars to…
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