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Northern Rivers · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1945

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11 Hurt When Truck and Tram Collide

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 1

ERISEANE, Tuesday: A fiveton truck with a trailer met in a head-on collision with a tram on Hamilton Road, Ascot, tonight…

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Wet Weather Motoring

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 2

Wet weather does more than find the leaks in the roofs of houses. It influences to a serious extent the types of road…

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Allied Motor Convoy at Kunming

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 6

The first convoy to travel on the Stilwell (Ledo) Road arrived in Kunming, Yunnan Province, on February 4. The…

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Presentation to Railway Officer

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 2

Representatives of all branches of Murwillumbah Railway staff gathered to farewell Mr Frank Kelly on Thursday of last week…

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Motorists Miss Fuel Ration

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 4

The NRMA criticises the method adopted by the Liquid Fuel Control Board in issuing petrol licences to private…

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German Motor Roads Aid Russians

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 4

Juding by recent despatches from war correspondents on the Eastern European war fronts, some Russian armies are now…

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Local Govt. Problem of Road Plant

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 2

LISMORE, Wednesday: "One thing that has disturbed us [?] that the wider functions of local government are being greatly…

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Two Fall Under Train: Woman Dead

Northern Star · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A young woman was killed and her husband critically injured when they fell in front of an…

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Man and Wife Fall Under Train Woman Killed

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: When a member of the RAAF and his wife fell under the train at Hurstville station today the…

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Goods Train Derailed

Tweed Daily · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 2

Delay to the North Coast mail on Friday, resulting in it not arriving at Murwillumbah until 2.25 a.m. on Saturday, was due to a…

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Navy Minister Injured in Road Accident

Northern Star · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday.—When a car in which he was travelling to Sydney skidded on the wet road surface at Strathfield to-day and crashed into a telephone pole, the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin)…

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10,000 Army Motor Cycles to Be Offered

Tweed Daily · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday: Ten thousand motor cycles will be offered to the general public without restriction by the…

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53 Hurt in Train Collision Nine in Hospital

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Out of 1200 people on two steam trains involved in a head-on collision at Clarendon Railway Station, between Richmond and Windsor, early today, only 53 were injured, some seriously…

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Battle for Rhine Begins Capture of Homberg Bridge Approaches

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Monday: Front-line reports clearly show that the battle for the Rhine has been joined and the German bridgehead west of the Rhine is . contracting under very greed pressure. Reuter's correspondent at Field Marshal Montgomery's headquarters…

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80 Hurt in Train Derailment

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 6

ZORRA (Ontario), Tuesday (AAP).—Eighty persons were injured when nine cars on a Canadian Pacific Railway train from…

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Railway Level Crossings

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 4

The NRMA is disappointed at the continued silence of the authorities regarding the improvement of conditions at NSW…

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Cycling Road Race dominations Close To-day

Northern Star · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 5

The Lismore Cycle Club will conduct a 5-mile event over the usual course on Saturday. Nominations close to-day with the…

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The Forum Praise for Railways (To the Editor)

Tweed Daily · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 5

Sir,--Relative to the item about the level crossing at Stokers, published in a recent issue of your paper as portion of…

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Blackening of Shire Roads

Tweed Daily · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 2

Tweed Shire Council's postwar plans included the blackening of approximately 100 miles of road, in addition to reconditioning of…

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Refugees Die in Bridge Colla[?]

Northern Star · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday (AAP).—Hundreds of residents fleeing from Cologne in the last…

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