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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 194

Cattle Klled by Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 4

The Kempsey mail train was held up for 20 minutes early yesterday morning after crashing into three young heifers between Normanhurst…

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Travellers Oppose Train Service Cuts

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 9

Suburban train travellers yesterday urged the retention of quarter-hourly train services on all lines in the metropolitan area. They claimed the…

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Seaman Seriously Injured by Train

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 5

A seaman, John Hadden, was critically injured last night when he was struck by a train at Warwick Farm railway station…

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Man Charged with Damaging Train

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 9

CHARLES WILLSON (24), railway cleaner, was remanded at Central Court today to Burwood Court, on January 17 on a charge of…

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Man Charged with Damaging Train

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 9

CHARLES WILLSON (24), railway cleaner, was remanded at Central Court today to Burwood Court on January 17 on a charge of…

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Man Charged with Damaging Train

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 9

CHARLES WILLSON (24), railway cleaner, was remanded at Central Court today to Burwood Court on January 17 on a charge of…

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Set Empty Train Off, Is Charge

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 3

A railway employee had committed a "maniacal" act and endangered the lives of…

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Wandering Youth Found on Road

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

A YOUTH of 18, who had been walking almost continuously since he left his home on Tuesday, was found last night in an exhausted…

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Wandering Youth Found on Road

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

A YOUTH of 18, who had been walking almost continuously since he left his home on Tuesday, was found last night in an exhausted…

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Important Road Centre Won In Burma

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 1

KANDY, Jan. 3 (A.A.P.). — Troops of the British 14th Army, still thrusting south in Burma, have entered Yeu, terminus of the railway to Mandalay, through Monywa…

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More Facilities to Train Victoria Park Likely To Be Available

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 5

It is believed that training will be resumed on Victoria Park racecourse by Monday. The arrangement is expected to result from a…

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Missing Youth Found By Motorist

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

Richard Robert Russell, 18, missing from his home in Illeroy-avenue, Killara, since Tuesday, was found by a motorist in…

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Soldier Killed In Railway Tunnel

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1945 · page 2

The mutilated body of an Australian soldier was found at 11,30 am today in the city railway tunnel about 300 yards on the…

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Starting Train 'Act of Maniac'

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 6

A railway employee had committed a maniacal act by sending an empty electric train careering along the rails, police alleged…

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Army Train for Little Jimmy

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK. -- To four-years-old Jimmy Young, of Corinth, Missouri, when a fellow wants to see his soldier daddy -- why,…

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Mud Blocks Road On West Front

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

PROTECTED by oil skins, an American soldier stands knee deep in mud futilely attempt ing to clear a Western Front…

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Mud Blocks Road On West Front

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

PROTECTED by oil skins, an American soldier stands knee deep in mud futilely attempt ing to clear a Western Front…

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More Child Victims of Road Accidents

The St George Call · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 2

Although there was a substantial reduction in the number of persons killed and injured in road accidents last year, the figures for children show n increase…

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Mud Blocks Road On West Front

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

PROTECTED by oil skins, an American soldier stands knee deep in mud futilely attempt ing to clear a Western Front…

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Burma Road Advance Drive From China Nears Border

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

KANDY, Jan. 4 (A.A.P.).—It is reported from Chungking that Chinese forces on the Salween front have captured Wanting,…

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