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Railways, roads & transport, 1941

1,391 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 70

The Railway Duplication Work

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 2

"The resident engineer, who is to, control the work of duplicating the line between Junee and Cootamundra, visited Junee on Tuesday to make a…

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Railway Excursions in February

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 2
Also in Daily Advertiser, The Murrumbidgee Irrigator, Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review, Adelong and Tumut Express

Word has been received from the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, that the next general series of excursion trains will be run during…

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Railway Staff Changes

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

The following railway staff changes are announced: Messrs. P. Hicks, night officer of Balldale to Roslyn; J. Joyce, porter of Junee to Broadmeadows as…

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Motoring Australia's Automotive Situation Need For Greater Imports of Chassis Parts

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 7

It is an indubitable fact that the automobile is a necessity to Australia, and that anything which threatens and jeopardises the stability of the automotive industries and the economic efficiency of the Commonwealth's 820,000 motor vehicles is a matter of national importance…

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Recipe for a Motor Accident

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 7

Take one careless fool, a few drops of intoxicating liquor, and a motor car. Put the liquor into the tool, and the fool into the motor car. Watch carefully…

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Leeton Railway Timetable SYDNEY

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 4

Mail train from Sydney arrives Leeton 11.20 a.m., due Griffith 12.52 p.m. daily; Sundays excepted. Connects with rail motor at Griffith for…

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Railways in Flood Time How the Safety of the Track is Ensured

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 5

The breaking of a long drought almost inevitably has its repercussions. The State's latest experience,…

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State's Part in War Effort Railway Co-operation Forging Weapons To Smash Foe

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 3

The Deputy-Premier and Leader of the Country Party, Colonel Bruxner, said recently that the basis of the…

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Tumut Shire Monthly Council Meeting Request for Road Works

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 4

The January meeting of the Tumut Shire Council was held at the Shire Hall Tumut on Wednesday, the President (Councillor H. Godfrey) presiding…

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Sicily Bombed Damage to Aerodromes and Railway London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 6

A R.A.F. communique issued in Cairo announced: "We heavily attacked aerodromes in Sicily on Wednesday, night. Incendiary and high…

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Water and Good Roads Facilitate Advance on Derna London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 January 1941 · page 1

General Wavell's advance forces are now within a few miles of the first adequate water supplies to the Libvan Desert, which is west from…

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Tumut Woman Injured by Tram in Sydney Driver Collapses Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 January 1941 · page 2

So badly shocked was the driver when his tram seriously injured a country woman at Newtown to-day that be collapsed and had to be taken…

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Aeroplane Disaster Solved

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 2

Wreckage of the R.A A.F. AvroAnson bomber, which disappeared while flying from Point Cook to Camden (N.S.W.) in May last year, was…

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The Car Ran Off the Road

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 2
Also in The Tumut and Adelong Times

Most of the reports of fatal road accidents in recent months contain, the significant words, "the car ran off the road," and end with such…

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Train Clash in Queensland Woman Dies in Hospital Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1941 · page 2

Clara Ibell, 34, one of the victims of the train crash, died in hospital to-night. Of the injured R. Chesmond 21, laborer, and Leslie Mobson, 46, the…

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