Indooroopilly Toll Bridge
TOLL collections collected by Indooroopilly Toll Bridge Ltd. for the year ended November 30. 1941, amounted to £7775, compared with £9866 in the previous year…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1942
4,313 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 216
Girl Tells of Bridge Fall
Police found Marie Ridley, 18, lying injured on rocks 20ft. below Lennox Bridge, Parramatta, late on Saturday night…
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BATAVIA, Sunday (A.A.P.). -- Eighteen Europeans and three Indonesians were killed when a passenger train collided with a goods train near…
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"I took the key from the ignition switch on the lorry, waited until the police arrived, and then put the key back," said a…
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PERTH, Monday.--Two sisters and a man were killed and two men injured when a small sedan car and a large trolley bus collided head-on early…
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After falling from Lennox Bridge, Parramatta, to the river bed 30 feet below, Marjorie Ridley, (18), of Queen-street Auburn, was found by police in…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.--The Government took power today to order the removal of road signs which might provide information to…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.--The Government took power today to order the removal of road signs which might provide information to…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.--The Government took power today to order the removal of road signs which might provide information to…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.--The Government took power today to order the removal of road signs which might provide information to…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—By decision of War Cabinet to-day, a National Security Regulation will be issued to provide for the proclamation of areas…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Military Ambulance Train on Trial Run
The first of a number of special military ambulance trains on its trial run yesterday. Built by the Railways Department for use in New South Wales, it consists of 13 carriages [?]led by two engines. The carriages hold wards, containing about 44 beds, dining and sleeping cars, and a dispensary. Top: A view of the train rounding a curve, revealing its length. Lower left: Medical orderlies making up beds in one of the wards. Lower right:…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Trams in To-night's Blackout Motor Traffic Rights Made Clear
Sydney's signal for to - night's Commonwealth - wide blackout will come from the Defence authorities in the same way that warning of the approach of enemy aircraft would be relayed to Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council "Disgusted" Granville Railway Station
Granville council last week decided to write to the Railway Commissioner expressing disgust with. present arrangements at the railway station"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further Charges Theft of Railway Property
Further charges involving the theft of railway property were preferred against Richard August Brown (51) at the Parramatta Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Brownout Causes Tram Men Concern
The Minister for Home Security (Mr. Lazzarini) has been warned by the executive of the Tramway Employees' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Deadly Cyanide Stolen From Tram
A SUITCASE containing enough calcium cyanide to kill a thousand persons was stolen from a tram in Burton Street, Darlinghurst, about…
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The Minister for Home Security (Mr. Lazzarini) has been warned by the executive of the Tramway Employees' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aeroplane's Forced Landing Near Moorefield Racecourse
Pilot P. B. Lusk and five passengers escaped injury when the Bega mail plane overturned in a swamp area yesterday, in Scarborough Park, near…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canada Plans Defence Road
OTTAWA.-- A gravel highway threaded through the mountain passes of British Columbia and the Yukon to Alaska will cost…
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