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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 46 of 194

Tried To Stop Tram

The Sun · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 3

"Watch me stop this tram," a 60-year-old man said to friends in Banksia-street, Botany, last night…

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Man Severely Hurt in Tram Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 9

George Clark, 63, enginedriver, Banksia Street, Botany, was critically injured last night when he was struck by a tram in Botany Road…

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Death And Injury In Tram Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 8

MRS. ANNIE ROWLANDS (82), Gladstone St., Mosman, was fatally injured when she was struck by a tram while crossing Military…

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Death And Injury In Tram Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 8

MRS. ANNIE ROWLANDS (82), Gladstone St., Mosman, was fatally injured when she was struck by a tram while crossing Military…

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Death And injury In Tram Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 8

MRS. ANNIE ROWLANDS (82), Gladstone St., Mosman, was fatally injured when she was struck by a tram while crossing Military…

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Death And Injury In Tram Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 March 1945 · page 8

MRS. ANNIE ROWLANDS (82), Gladstone St., Mosman, was fatally injured when she was struck by a tram while crossing Military…

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Water For Sheep On Roads

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 8

REPORTS received by the Victorian Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Martin) indicate that arrangements made for watering the large numbers…

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Train Kills Wife, Injures Husband

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 7

A woman was killed and her airman husband critically injured yesterday when they fell under a train at Hurst-ville railway station…

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Hitler Youth Train Damaged by Bomb

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Friday. -- Copenhagen Radio says that a train packed with members of Hitler's Youth Movement was greatly damaged by…

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Hitler Youth Train Damaged by Bomb

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 2

LONDON,Friday.-- Copenhagen Radio says that a train packed with members of Hitler's Youth Movement was greatly damaged by…

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Man and Wife Fall Under Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 4

When a member of the R.A.A.F. and his wife fell under an electric train at Hurstville Station yesterday, the woman…

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Hitler Youth Train Damaged by Bomb

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Friday. -- Copenhagen Radio says that a train packed with members of Hitler's Youth Movement was greatly damaged by…

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U.S. Isolation Policy Abandoned Review Of Yalta Conference Good Start on Road to Peace, Says Roosevelt

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Friday. -- Outstanding point of President Roosevelt's report on the Crimea Conference was his emphatic declaration that America could no longer…

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U.S. Isolation Policy Abandoned Review Of Yalta Conference Good Start on Road to Peace, Says Roosevelt

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Friday. -- Outstanding point of President Roosevelt's report on the Crimea Conference was his emphatic declaration that America could no longer…

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Sell Railways To Pay War Debts of Nation

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 17

A CAMPAIGN to pay our war debts without cost to the public by selling non-paying Government…

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Motors and Motoring Orders for Tractors Swamp Output

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 11

ALTHOUGH the number of tractors now being imported exceeded all records, demand for them was so groat that there were still insufficient to meet farmers' accumulated orders, and there must bo continued releases on…

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4000 Planes Hit Nazi Railways

The Sun · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.--Three great air fleets totalling more than 4000 planes yesterday continued…

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Railway Strike Off

The Sun · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 3

TOWNSVILLE, Friday.--A settlement has been reached in the Townsville railway workshop employees' strike, and an early…

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Tram Strike Called Off

The Sun · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 3

There will be no tram strik... in Sydney to enforce claims b... non-traffic employees. Solution to the men's…

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Man Caught on Tram Hook, Clothes Torn Off

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 5

A man running to board a moving tram last night was caught by the tram's coupling hook and dragged along the street until his clothes were torn off. The man, Arthur Ryan, 32,…

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