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Railways, roads & transport, 1919

6,224 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Aeroplane Making Factories in Australia Experiments Proceeding

Evening News · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 7

The Defense authorities [?] hope that it will [?]…

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Men Who Saved the Train. What the Rewards' Amount To

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 9

BATHURST, Friday.--The Railway Commissioners have not been as extravagant as It was originally, believed in connect loti with the rewarding of Messrs. James Whelan and…

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Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Association. 29th Annual Conference

Labor News · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 7

Owing to the epidemic restrictions, the 29th annual conference of the Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association was held in the open air on…

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Police and Tram Pay

Evening News · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 2

"Disgusted With Growlers' makes a comparison:— The scale of police wages recently published by the Inspector-General only…

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North-south Railway Cabinet Sub-Committee Considering Route MELBOURNE

Evening News · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 2

A Federal Cabinet sub-committee, consisting of Mr. Groom, Mr. Webster, and Mr. Bell (Commissioner for Commonwealth Railways), is at present sitting,…

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Women Motor Thieves

The World's News · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 28

WOMEN motor-car thieves and women burglars have been a source of considerable trouble to the London police during the past few weeks…

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Our Overcrowded Railways. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 9

Sir,—Adverting to the subject of overcrowded railway carriages, which has been frequently alluded to in your columns lately, I should like to draw attention to the loading…

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Motoring Why Prices Are Firm Aerial Transport Services

The Sun · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 2

Surely prospective purchasers are convinced by this time that cars cannot be reduced in price for some months yet…

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Railway Assembly Platform. Issue of Tickets Restricted. Man Who Wanted to Go to Newtown

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 8

Complaint was made taut night that the railway authorities at the Central Station had refused to issue tickets to Redfern, Newtown, Erskinevllle. and St. Peters, or to supply…

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Motoring. To-day's Hill Climb

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 3

The him climbing contest, to be hold on Artillery HiII this afternoon, the been the main topic of conservation at the Automobile club house during the week, and considerable…

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Transport. Government Control. Taking Over Railways. London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 9

Mr. Shortt introduced. in the House of Com- moas, a bill to establish a Ministry of Way and Communication, with a view to coordinating all means of transport. He…

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Eastwood Railway Inconveniences

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 8

The knocking off of a large number of passenger trains on the Northern line is causing much inconvenience, especially at night, both to residents in these suburbs…

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Non-union Labor Fighting at Bull. North Bulli Men Decide To Give Notice To-morrow—Free Fight on a Train. WOLLONGONG

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 2

The trouble that has been brewing among the South Coast miners ever since the last strike over the re-employment of non-union labor, has at last assumed…

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Motoring Radial-engined Cars Effects of Aero-Engine Development

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 12

Striking evidence of the effects which aero engine development and practice will, in one way or another, have upon automobile construction, is afforded in the…

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Crown Jewels of England £6,000,000 Worth Taken Back to The Tower in Motor Cars

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 17

Some time ago the Crown Jewels of England were secretly removed from the Tower of London and hidden in a stone vault at Windsor Castle. When the…

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Looked Death in the Face. Man Bragged for Fifteen Yards Under Tram

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon, shortly after four o'clock, Norman Conyard, a tramguard aged 25, living in Criman-street, Huristone Park, was riding on the…

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Railway Guard's Lapse to Dishonesty. Wellington (N.s.w.)

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 2

At the Police Court, Richmond, Clough, a guard formerly in charge of a passenger train, pleaded guilty to stealing a diamond ring from the bag of a…

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Rival Railway Claims

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 9

At a meeting of residents of Junee Reefs held yesterday it was stated that the Railway Commissioners contemplated constructing a deviation of…

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MAL-DE-TRAMCAR Wanted a Doctor of Traffic Epidemic at Noise and Bumps

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 11

"Burden of cities, mad turmoil of men" -- among such burdens 'and turmoil the Sydney trams are not the easiest to endure…

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