Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Railways, roads & transport, all years

Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1943

4,054 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 203

Bridge Players' Lottery Prize

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 7

FOUR regular contract bridge players, all women, shared the first prize in the lottery drawn today. The ticket was in the name…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Bridge Players' Lottery Prize

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 7

FOUR regular contract bridge players, all women, shared the first prize in the lottery drawn today. The ticket was in the name…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Bridge Players' Lottery Prize

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 7

FOUR regular contract bridge players, all women, shared the first prize in the lottery drawn today. The ticket was in the name…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Crowd Defies Train Guard

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 5

A Gosford-Sydney train was held up for an hour and a half at Hawkesbury River station last night…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Tour of N.t. Road Camps

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 8

Mrs. C. L. A. Abbott, who is president of the Northern Territory Division of the Red Cross, recently made a 1600- mile road tour of road construction…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Emu Bay Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 3

Profit of Emu Bay Raliway Co., Ltd., for 1942 is shown at £7.365. compared with £7,383 for 1941. Payment of interest on 4½ p.c. debenture stock requires £5.890…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Motor Speed Limits

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 4

The chief of the Police Traffic Branch Superintendent Ross, said last night that National Security Regulations prescribing a 40 miles an hour…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Railways Control

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 3

Sir,—"The wheel has come full circle." When I was a child. Ministerial influence and patronage had become so widespread and harmful that…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Steady Profit for Emu Bay Railway

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 10

Emu Bay Railway Co., Ltd., Tasmania, earned a profit of £7365 for the year to December 31, before providing £7368 for debenture interest and…

Continued on Trove, page 10 →

Motorists Ignorant of 40 M.p.h. Limit

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 March 1943 · page 8

JUDGING from police reports, many motorsits were ignorant of the new Federal speed limit of 40 miles an hour, said the…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Steam Trams to End Service

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1943 · page 6

The Parramatta steam tramway service, which had been operated by the Sydney Ferries, Ltd., would cease operations after the last trip…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Woman Helps to Capture Railway Pickpockets

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 March 1943 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday. -- Mrs. Norah Jamieson, member of the railway police at Newcastle, yesterday assisted in unmasking she pickpockets who…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Steel Mats for Aerodrome Runways

Construction · Wednesday 31 March 1943 · page 4

The improvisation of runways as new landing grounds is a problem that has attracted many inventors. The Royal Air Force developed runways of chain wire mesh and open weave coir matting…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Wrecking Rommel From Air Coastal Road Blaze of Ruin

The Sun · Wednesday 31 March 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Ruthless fulfilment of an Allied air headquarters promise to "crush and destroy the last vestige of the Axis armies in Tunisia" began yesterday against Rommel's fleeing columns…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Good-bye to the Steam Tram To-day! the Minister Sings a Different Tune What He Didn't Tell the Deputation

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1943 · page 1

To-day is the day on which Parramatta's steam tram is destined to puff its way along George-street for the last time!…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Tramway Warning to Race Patrons

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1943 · page 2

THE secretary of the Tramway Employees Union (Mr. J. Brock) said today that if there were a repetition next race day of incidents which…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Tramway Warning to Race Patrons

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1943 · page 5

THE secretary of the Tramway Employees' Union (Mr. J. Brock) said today that if there were a repetition next race day of incidents which…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Tramway Warning to Race Patrons

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1943 · page 5

THE secretary of the Tramway Employees Union (Mr. J. Brock) said today that if there were a repetition next race day of incidents which…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Road Deterioration

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 1 April 1943 · page 5

A DISTUREING report of the condition of roads in the south-western section of New South Wales has been received by the N.R.M.A. from its country…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Train Journey with Suicide

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1943 · page 2

LONDON, Thursday.--A soldier who was carried 70 miles in a train and who was thought by passengers to be asleep was…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →