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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 194

Comleroy Road Church Kurrajong Burnt Down 10th December, 1944

The Methodist · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 5

The Comleroy Road Methodist Church in Kurrajong, built in 1868, was destroyed by a fire which swept through the district driven by a 63 miles per hour gale when the temperature was over 90 degrees. This…

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U.S. Attacking Jap Flank Pressure On Luzon Road Junction

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 3

U.S. troops on Luzon ore breaking through the Japanese defence line on the north-western flank of Lingayen Gulf beachhead. The Americans, under heavy Japanese fire,…

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Allied Raids on Railway Targets

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--Allied bombers from Italy yesterday bombed German rail and communication lines and a railway bridge in Yugoslavia…

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Three Killed in Car at Railway Crossing

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.--All three occupants of a car hit by a railway car at the Waingawa crossing, near Masterton, today were…

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Three Killed in Car at Railway Crossing

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.--All three occupants of a car hit by a railway car at the Waingawa crossing, near Masterton, today were…

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Drive in China Resumed New Enemy Bid For Railway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (A.A.P.). —A Chinese communique reports that the Japanese have begun two new drives at either end of…

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An Answer to Critics of The N.S.W. Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 2

Adverse criticism of our railways, always prevalent in some degree, has resurged during discussion as to what authority should control civil…

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My New Novels Tobacco road detour Tragic Ground, by Erskine Caldwell. New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce. "Mrs. Loveday," by Robert Goodyear. London: Gollancz. Tomorrow is Forever, by Gwen Bristow. London: William Heinemann

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 13

ERSKINE CALDWELL'S new book, "Tragic Ground," may be described as a detour--a detour of his…

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To train Colombo man's horses here

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 3

Latest overseas owner to interest himself in Australian racing is Mr. A. R. Mukthar, of Colombo…

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Railway food scramble leaves women children hungry

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 21 January 1945 · page 7

Three mornings this week watched men and women run from the Melbourne Express of Goulburn station and scramble for food in the railway refreshment rooms…

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Charged With Driving Train

The Sun · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 3

MOREE, Monday. -- Ernest John Slick, railway employees, and William Bray Bartlett and George Boyce, employed on wool…

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Illegal Use of Train Alleged

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 4

MOREE, Monday.--Sequal to the disappearance of a railway engine and two trucks from the Moree locomotive shed…

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Illegal Use of Train Alleged

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 4

MOREE, Monday.--Sequal to the disappearance of a railway engine and two trucks from the Moree locomotive shed…

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Lost and Found —One Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Sunday.—A railway engine and two trucks disappeared from Meree locomotive shed last night…

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Illegal Use of Train Alleged

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 4

MOREE, Monday.--Sequal to the disappearance of a railway engine and two trucks from the Moree locomotive shed…

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Illegal Use of Train Alleged

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 4

MOREE, Monday.--Sequal to the disappearance of a railway engine and two trucks from the Moree locomotive shed…

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Men Alleged To Have Taken Train

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 1

MOREE, Sunday.--Three Sydney men were arrested by police today and charged with having illegally used a train. The charge follows the disappearance of a train engine…

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Key Town Falls Opening Road To China

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (A.A.P.). —According to the Chinese Central News Agency, Chinese troops on Saturday captured Wanting,…

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Last Jap Burma Road Fort Falls to Chinese

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 3

CHUNKING, Sunday.--Chinese troops have recaptured Wanting, in Yunnan Province (west China), last Japanese-held town on the Burma road…

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Big Railway Profit On Toast Alleged

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 7

Railway refreshment rooms were making nearly 400 per cent, prof it on sales of toast, Mrs. A. G. Large said yesterday. Mrs. Large, Mosman smallgoods shop proprietor,…

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