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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

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The Latest (Second Edition) Berlin-danzig Railway Reported Cut Russian Drive to Encircle Breslau

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): The B.U.P. Moscow correspondent says that Marshal Zhukov's troops have cut the Berlin-Frank-furt Danzig railway at some points and threaten it it others. A late flash from Reutor's Moscow correspondent states that the…

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Air War on Eastward Moving Nazi Traffic Railways Attacked

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.)— German traffic is again moving eastward from the Western Front. This teas reported by…

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Coal Position Still Affects Railway Services No Restoration Yet

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: Indications are that there will be no restoration of railway services or sleeping cars in N.S.W. until the…

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Train Services a Restoration from

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 2

The Railway Commissioner announces that as from next Sunday both country and interstate train services will be restored to what they were eight months…

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Plunged To Death From Railway Bridge Sunday’s Tragedy at Gundagai Swimming Pool Young Man Killed On Impact With Water

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 2

Diving from the Railway bridge, fifty feet above the Gundagai Swimming Pool, a well known Gundagai man plunged to his doom on Sunday. He hit the water flat on his stomach, and after rising to the surface of the Murrumbidgee River, disappeared in the stream. It was…

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Increase in Rate Move to Defer Defeated Vigorous Debate Need for Better Roads

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 4

When Cr. Washington moved, and Cr. O'Donoghue seconded, that the general rate be struck at 2½d in the £, an increase of ½d, at…

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On Shortest Road To Berlin Red Army on the From the Baltic to the Danube Germany Plays Last Card Said to Be Preparing for Counterblow

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.).— "Red Army troops under Marshal Zhukov are on the shortest road to Berlin, and the entire front is on the move from…

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Railway Travel No Relaxation of Restrictions

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.: The restrictions on railway travel will remain, the Transport Minister (Mr. Ward) announced to-day. He said…

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Injured on Railway Line

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 2

While Mr. Joseph Gilbert, railWay employee of Erskineville, was riding on a railway trolley near The Rook early last night he…

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Aeroplane Crashes Ten Persons Killed

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

The Australian National Airways' stinson which crashed in flames near Redesdale, Victoria, on Wednesday, killing the 10 persons aboard, was…

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Restoration of Train Services Cancelled

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 2

The train services are not to be restored to normal. Comprehensive schedules and timetables had been prepared for the…

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Ledo-burma Road First Convoy Welcomed

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 4

It is officially announced that the newly-opened Ledo-Burma road has been named Stilwell Road in honour of General Joseph Stilwell, former…

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Fatal Dive Gundagai Man Drowned In Dive From Bridge

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 1

Bert Castles, aged 24 years, was drowned at Gundagai early on Sunday afternoon when he dived 20 feet from the railway bridge into…

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Air War Bombings in Austria Attack On Brenner Pass Railway

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs.: Operating for the first time to 10 days nearly 750 heavy bombers yesterday bombarded oil objectives in…

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All Motor Vehicles Users

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 February 1945 · page 1

must take the utmost care of tyres these days—for Australia's sake and for their own Bakes. Simple precautions will give your tyres longer life,…

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Ninety-Six Killed Train Collision in Mexico

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 February 1945 · page 7

MEXICO CITY, Friday.—Ninety-six persons were killed and 63 injured in a collision between freight and Passenger trains, reported the United…

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Opening of Road to China

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 2

The reopening of the land route to China as a result of Lord Louis Mountbatten's drive in Burma will be hailed throughout the nations opposed to Japan as one of the most promising events of recent months in the Far Eastern war. Although it…

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Road Safety How Accidents Occur

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 2

The following illustrations of how so many fatal accidents occurred in New South Wales during the last three mouths have been issued by the Road…

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Allied Attack In Italy Mantua-verona Railway Bombed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sun. (A.A.P.): The 8th Army in Italy made dawn attacks supported by tanks against German strongpoints…

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Terrific Raid on Berlin "Tangled Mass of Destruction Railways Smashed In Crowded City

Daily Advertiser · Monday 5 February 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Sun. (A.A.P.): Crews of Flying Fortresses returning from the greatest raid ever made on the…

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