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Railways, roads & transport, 1919

6,224 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 250

Keeping Trams Clean Railway Staff Inoculated

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 1

Nothing has yet officially been done [?] of prohibiting over [?] trams, though it is [?] that instructions may shortly be…

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The Railways & Tramways Sydney Tramway System. No. 3

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 23

In August, 1882, offers were received by the Government from private persons to lease some of the tram lines, and subsequently several syndicates were formed…

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Fact & Fiction Ten Pictures and Short Stories the Western Road

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 36

When you go up the Blue Mountains for a holiday, or cross them on your way home, or in the pursuit of the particular line of business by which you keep that…

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Motor Run to Balmain

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 2

At last night's meeting of the Balmain Council, as application was received [?]…

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Cleaning Railway Carriages

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 7

[?] is being taken by the [?] Commissioners to minimised the [?] to the travelling [?] vaccum cleaning plant…

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Trams Collide Driver Severely Injured BRISBANE

Evening News · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 7

Two trams collided in Hamilton [?] this morning, and Henry Carter, one of the drivers, was placed against the front seat and severely injured…

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Motoring the Automobile Club's Opening Run a Speed Judging Test: The Transcontinental Survey

Referee · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 11

It seems quite like the good old days, when war was unthought of, to be chronicling the fact that the Automobile Club of Australia will hold its opening run…

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Misadventures Man Killed Instantly and Two Women Injured. Motor-car Fatality

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 4

On Wednesday night last Cecil Jackson, aged thirty years, was killed in a motor accident. Mr. Johnson was returning Home from Eumaralla…

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Danger of Crowded Trams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 12

Although the State and municipal authorities have taken drastic action in several directions to prevent and discourage crowding, and so lessen the danger of infection, the people are…

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Tram Employees. "Passengers Must Wear Masks."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 12

Mr. Warton, secretary to the Tramway Union, said yesterday that tram conductors would probably refuse to serve tickets to passengers unless the travelling public made use…

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Interstate Travel Railway Restrictions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 11

The Railway Commissioners yesterday afternoon issued the following notification:— The following arrangements are to apply in regard to the interstate passenger, traffic:—…

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Overcrowding Risks Trains and Trams On the Step to Parramatta

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 8

At a meeting of the Parramatta Council last night Alderman Noller referred to the overcrowded state of the trains and trams, and said if there was…

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Help the Ambulance ! Chance for Motor Drivers

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 8

In view of the possible spread of Influenza in the metropolitan area, the St. John Ambulance and the Civil Ambulance Corps require motor drivers…

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"Scaling" on the Tram Boy's Fatal Fall

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 8

"We were doing a scale on the tram," said Alfred Newman, 15, of Wellington-street. Mascot, giving evidence at the City Coroner's Court to-day in…

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Through Palestine. The Jaffa-Jerusalem Railway. Western Ideas in the Holy Land

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 36

When the railway was built to connect Jaffa with the Holy City there were not a few who looked upon it as almost an act of sacrilege. We have always been…

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Promotions (Railways)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 23

Traffic Branch: Head shunter to chargeman, M. Levy. Newcastle Goods: Porters to shunters, F. Rouse. Newcastle Relief to Bullock Island: C. Mulligan,…

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Appointments. Railways

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1919 · page 23

Traffic Branch.--Porters: E. Fisher, Newcastle; P. O'Connor, S. Morrow, A. Gilmour, Bullock Island; B. M'Donald, Lismore Relief. Junior Porters: W…

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Tram and Train Traffic Reduced Evening Travelling

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 January 1919 · page 5

The tram and train traffic has suffered as a result of the epidemic, but not to such a great extent as might have been expected. With regard to the trains the [?]…

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Transcontinental Train Held Up in the West PLERTH

Evening News · Thursday 30 January 1919 · page 5

At the patience at [?]…

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