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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 194

Flood Stops Train; Two Missing

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

TOWNSVILLE, Thursday. -- When a train stalled crossing the Inkerman bridge over the flooded Burdekin River between…

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Flood Stops Train; Two Missing

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

TOWNSVILLE, Thursday. -- When a train stalled crossing the Inkerman bridge over the flooded Burdekin River between…

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Flood Stops Train; Two Missing

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

TOWNSVILLE, Thursday. -- When a train stalled crossing the Inkerman bridge over the flooded Burdekin River between…

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Train Sleepers May Yet Return

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 6

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- Coal stocks had improved and restoration of railway sleeping cars would be considered by the War Railways Committee at its next meeting, the Minister for…

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Express Roads Planned. For New South Wales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

Express roads, to be known as Motor Ways, are provided for in the bill amending the Main Roads Act introduced into the…

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Woman Killed by Train. Husband Seriously Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 3

When a member of the R.A.A.F. and his wife fell under an electric train at Hurstville Station last Thursday, the woman was fatally injured and the man's…

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Dangers at Bonds Tram Terminus

Tribune · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 7

THE NSW Minister for Transport Mr. M. O'Sullivan, has interviewed a deputation asking for alteration to the Bondi tram terminus…

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Pillaging on Railways

The Sun · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 8

Well-organised pillage gangs, and not railwaymen, were responsible for the greater part of the £120,000 lost by pillaging…

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Motor Cycle Fatality

The Propeller · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 1

A man was killed and another injured when their motor cycle and sidecar struck a traffic dome and overturned in Canterbury Road. Canterbury, last Thursday…

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Railwaymen for Waterside

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

When taxation and other deductions were made, 25 per cent, of railwaymen received less than the basic wage, it was…

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Railwaymen for Waterside

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

When taxation and other deductions were made, 25 per cent, of railwaymen received less than the basic wage, it was…

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Railwaymen for Waterside

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 2

When taxation and other deductions were made, 25 per cent, of railwaymen received less than the basic wage, it was…

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Motor Engineer Shortage Position in Fairfield

The Biz · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 3

The Automotive Industry War Advisory Committee has reconsidered the application of Mr. P. O, Burd, for permission to re-open a motor repair workshop at…

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New Motor Roads Plan

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 6

Motor-ways for fast traffic after the war were promised yesterday by the Minister for Transport…

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Tyre Destroying Agencies on Roads Alarm Motorists

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 9

THE N.R.M.A. continues to receive complaints from motorists of presence on roadways of broken glass, steel turnings and similar tyre…

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Cologne Bridge Disaster

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON, March 8 (A.A.P.).— Hundreds of Cologne's citizens were drowned in the last dramatic hours before the city's fall,…

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Cronulla - Kurnell Road

The Observer · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

On Friday, March 2nd, the proposed road between Cronulla and Kurnell was inspected by Mr. O’Sullivan, Minister for Transport, Mr. A. J. Williams,…

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Train Takes Food to Germany

The Sun · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

PARIS, Friday.--A Red Cross train from Switzerland has entered Germany with food and medical…

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P.o.w. Supply Train Enters Germany

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

PARIS, March 8 (A.A.p.).—A Red Cross train from Switzerland has entered Germany with food and medical supplies for more than 100,000…

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Floods Sweep Train From Rails Two Passengers Missing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Two men are believed to have been drowned when a flood swept a mixed goods train from the rails when it was trapped on the low-level bridge over the Burdekin River near Ayr…

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