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Railways, roads & transport, 1918

4,879 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 244

Motor Cycling the Rifle Fifty-eighth Anniversary of the N.r.a. Frank Delandro a Fine Judge of Speed

Arrow · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 7

Owing to the holiday there will be but little shooting to-morrow on the metropolitan ranges. The matches at Lithgow are attracting a few It is just as well for the motor-cycling fraternity that Frank Delandro is not a traffic policeman. Judging by his performance of Saturday, he is, as the Americans say, some…

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Railway Workers. Discontent on Deviation Job

Evening News · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 3

Mr [?] of the Railway Workers [?] of the A.W.U., [?] I have [?] to the whole…

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A Railway to Bulga. To Provide a Market for Valuable Timber

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 3

On Saturday afternoon, at the opening of a Voluntary Workers' Association cottage at Wingham (N.S.W.), Mr. R. A. Price, M.L.A., and others spoke very…

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Land Settlement and Railway Development. Development Lines N.S.W. Railway Extension Opening Southern Wheat Country

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 3

The N.S.W. Railway Department is at present arranging for the resumption of land adjoining the Holbrook branch line and the main southern line, at Culcairn,…

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A Fatal Street Collision. a Cyclist by a Motor-cycle

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 4

A collision between a motor-cyclist and a cyclist named Lance Phillip Buchilly, occurred in Woolahra (Sydney), on Tuesday night, and resulted in the death of…

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Many Trams Idle. Shortage of Men. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

Some of the many complaints about the Newcastle district tramway service were vontlianed at a conference at the council-chambers last night between representatives of the…

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Motor Accident

The Propeller · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 1

As a result of a motor-car accident near Waterfall on Sunday afternoon James O'Brien, Harold Delandro, and John Hall…

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Inadequate Tram Services. Fifty Men Wanted for Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--At a municipal conference held last night, it was reseived to ask the Railway Commissioner to restore the pre-strike time-tables on the Newcastle…

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Dubbo-werris Creek Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1918 · page 8

DUBBO, Thursday.--At a meeting of the local branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, Mr. J. Griflin moved that, In view of the fact that the Government had allowed…

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Land Speculators and Roads

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 8

"Since the council insisted on the vendors ballasting and blue-metalling the roads in their subdivisions," declared Alderman Anderson at the meeting of…

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MOTORING Americans Encourage Makers No Restriction Contemplated Road Reports

The Sun · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 2

An acknowledged expert in motor tyre production in America has been busy lately heartening up pessimists. Frequently the opinion has been expressed…

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Hornsby. Language in the Train

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 8

Christopher Bennett, aged 55, was charged, at Hornsby Police Court on Tuesday, with that he did, on January 19, 1918, whilst travelling in a railway…

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Inter-state Roads. Government to Assist

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 11

For some time past, there has been correspondence between the Victorian Country Roads Board and the various Ministers who have administered Local Government in New South…

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Ordered Off a Public Road

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 5

Recently Alderman Everington and Lomax had a stroll up Cusula way and crossed the line at the railway platform, when, to their amazement, they were…

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Sydney to Melbourne by Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 11

For some time past there has been correspondence between the Victorian Country Roads Board and the various Ministets who have administered Local Government in New…

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The Observes of a German Aeroplane Surrendering During an Air-fight

The World's News · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 13

This remarkable photograph, published in the "Illustrated London News," was taken in the air during an encounter between a French and a German aer.ilane on the Western front. Fart of the French machine is visible in the foreground. In the German aeroplane the observer is seen holding up his hands in token of surrender, just as German soldiers do when they cry "Kamerad!'' on the ground. Doubtless the German airmen had realised that their machine…

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The Road to Understanding (Eleanor H. Porter)

The World's News · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 29

This writer's work is so well known that it needs no recommendation to most readers. The present story will be read with a good deal of interest on that account, but more for its own…

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The "Sportsman's" Notebook. Siftings of Sport Train Thieves. Terrors of Travelling

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 1

The experience of reputable-racegoers that travel by railway to race meetings is growing unendurable. In the first place the…

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Rail Traffic Disorganised Inkerman Bridge Damaged Three Drownings at Rockhampton BRISBANE

The Sun · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 6

The Railway Department has received a wire from Townsville stating that owing to the heavy Hoods the engineer considered it unsafe to run trains beyond Charters Towers…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 20, 1918. the Road to Peace

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 January 1918 · page 12

In addressing the British Labour Conference, M. Litvinoff, the Russian Provisional Plenipotentiary in London, declared that more history had been made at…

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