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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 194

Motor Cycle Afire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 5

League of Wheelmen officials rushed for a fire extinguisher at The Arena on Saturday night when a motor cycle being used…

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Friction Over Railway Sleeper Issue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 3

Sleeping cars would be run on New South Wiles country and interstate rail services from next Sunday, a spokesman for the…

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Motor Cycling

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 6

The Auto Racing Association has arranged a programme of motor cycle and speed car racing for this afternoon at the Sports Ground…

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Railwaymen Want Strike

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 4

BRISBANE, Sunday.—A meeting of 410 railway workers at the Trades Hall to-day decided unanimously in favour of a…

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Horse Tramples Baby Girl for Her Flowers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 9

A baby girl was knocked down and trodden on by a horse at Blacktown yesterday when she tried to stop it eating her bunch of flowers. The girl, Bonita Edith Harris, 2, of Lancaster Street,…

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Soldier Dies in Train Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- A Canadian soldier was killed and 30 people injured last night, when two heavily- laden express trains collided at Esher…

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Australian Road- Making Miracle

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 4

Australian engineers on Bougainville have constructed in a month an amazing road south from the Torokina perimeter…

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N.S.W. Set On Train Restoration

The Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

Despite any opposition which may come from the Federal Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward), NSW…

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Supplying China Convoys Along Burma Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 1

CHUNGKING, Jan. 29 (A.A.P.) —The first Allied convoy to pass over the newly-opened Burma Road was welcomed at the…

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Drive in West Maintained Vital Bridge Destroyed French Threat to Colmar Box

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON,Tuesday. -- The U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies are almost info the Siegfried Line, but terrible weather conditions still make the going hard…

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Drive in West Maintained Vital Bridge Destroyed French Threat to Colmar Box

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies are almost into the Siegfried Line, but terrible weather conditions still make the going hard…

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Drive in West Maintained Vital Bridge Destroyed French Threat to Colmar Box

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies are almost into the Siegfried Line, but terrible weather conditions still make the going hard…

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Drive in West Maintained Vital Bridge Destroyed French Threat to Colmar Box

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies are almost info the Siegfried Line, hut terrible weather conditions still make the going hard…

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Drive in West Maintained Vital Bridge Destroyed French Threat to Colmar Box

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies are almost into the Siegfried Line, hut terrible weather conditions still make the going hard…

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Drive in West Maintained Vital Bridge Destroyed French Threat to Colmar Box

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. -- The U.S. 1st and 3rd Armies are almost into the Siegfried Line, hut terrible weather conditions still make, the going hard…

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Finance and Markets Economic Road Back Will Be As Hard As From Peace To War

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 12

The economic transition from war to peace will probably be no less difficult than was that from peace to war, says the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York. That it can be effected with…

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Mr. Ward and the Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 2

Efforts by the Federal Minister for Transport to maintain that the State Commissioner for Railways has no right to lift the recent…

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R.A.F. Hits Berlin Blitz Against Railways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 29 (A.A.P.).— Berlin, choked with refugees streaming westwards from the Red Army, and with German…

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Conference on Railway Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 6

The Commonwealth Coal Commissioner, Mr. Michell, said last night that he had not been consulted by the State Government before it…

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Department of Main Roads

Construction · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 5

The Nineteenth Annual Report of the New South Wales Department of Main Roads covers the year ending June 30th, 1944, and its reduced size reflects the wartime shrinkage in the activities…

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