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Railways, roads & transport, 1941

4,956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 248

Transport Chief Displeases Tram Men

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 5

Tramway employees are displeased with the Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways (Mr. Neale) because he did not include "his…

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Derailed Train Wrecks Station

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 7

LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--Musselburgh railway station (Scotland) was wrecked yesterday when a goods train ran on to the platform…

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Raider Victim Pictures. Brought to Sydney by Special Aeroplane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 7

The pictures published in the "Sydney Morning Herald" to-day of survivors from vessels sunk by enemy raiders were brought to Sydney last…

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Export Manifests Sydney Amended. E. & B. Motor Vessel. Sailed Sydney; W. G. Deuchar & Co., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 3

J. A. Hemphill & Sons, 2400 bgs flour (180 tons) Fielders General Products, 160 sks cornflour starch…

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Overseas Export Manifests From Interstate Ports Queensland Scottish Shire Motorship. Sailed Townsville. Bartiams, Ltd., agents

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 3

Qland. Meat Export Co., Ltd., 17 tons general cargo. Swift (Aust.) Co., Pty., Ltd., 107 tons general cargo…

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Great German Seaport in Flames Bremen Paid Back For London Ruin 20,000 Fire-bombs in an Hour Docks, Railways, Air Plant Wrecked LONDON

The Sun · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 1

Terrible punishment was inflicted on the great German seaport of Bremen last night, when the Royal Air Force showered docks and harborside factories with 20,000 incendiary bombs in the first hour of a 3 12…

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Hospital Plans Safe Motorists' Association

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 9

The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital has formed The Australian Safe Motorists' Association, to encourage safer motoring. Motorist members who have no…

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Contract Bridge Guile Can Upset Attackers

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 4

Many players who fancy themselves, slip on the defensive side of bridge, but they usually have a…

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Braved Sharks in Rescue Effort. Tram Conductor Praised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 10

The City Coroner, Mr. Oram, yesterday praised James Edward Smith, a tram conductor, of Albert Street, Annandale, for attempting to save a man from…

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MOTORING New Tax Scheme Advocated

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 13

A sliding scale of motor car registration, based on the ages of vehicles, should be adopted, states the…

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Mystery Death In Motor Car MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1941 · page 7

Police are trying to solve the mystery of the death of a man whose badly burned body was found in a car early today…

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Assaulted and Robbed in Train

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 January 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Assaulted and robbed in a train by two young men. Thomas Ward is in St. Vincent's Hospital with serious head…

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Clothing Scattered Along Road

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1941 · page 12

Mrs. Ludlow met her death, it was stated, when she climbed from the front seat of a taxi allegedly driven by Hay, crawled on to the mudguard of…

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Shake-down on Train Welcome to survivors

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 January 1941 · page 6

The Governor-General (Lord Gowrle) will welcome 333 raider survivors when they arrive at Central Railway…

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Man of the Hour Waits for a Train

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1941 · page 2

AN ENGLISHMAN waits for a train and reads his paper. This so typical and so extraordinary Englishman, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England, returning from a tour of inspection of defence works in Scotland…

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Man Killed in Train Crash Dubbo

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 3

Alan James Patterson, 35, was killed, but James Henry Hedger escaped injury when a railway tricycle, on which they were riding…

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Bridge Under 19 Feet of Water Brisbane

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 5

Torrential rains in parts of northern Queensland have caused flooding. Alpha Creek, which had more than seven Inches in 24 hours, is 19 feet…

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Floods Delay 400 on Train Broken Hill

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 5

After a journey of 3134 hours. 400 holiday-makers returning from Sydney to start work to-day. did not reach Broken Hill until 3.50 a.m…

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Capertee-glen Davis Road Completed. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 8

The road from Capertee to Glen Davis, on which large numbers of relief workers have been employed for over a year, has been completed. Late this year, it will be given…

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Women's News Raiders' Victims Here Warm Welcome As Train Arrived

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 10

Tears and laughter were lost in bursts of tumultuous cheering at Central Station yesterday morning as friends and relatives met the train which brought the survivors from the Nazi raiders to…

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