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Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 194

Payten to Train Kiaora Yearlings

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 20

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Mr. Percy Miller, the Kiaora Studmaster, purchased two Enfield fillies at the Yearling Sales. The youngsters will be trained at Randwick by Bayly Payten. THE Enfield fillies from The…

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Payten to Train Kiaora Yearlings

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 20

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Mr. Percy Mi8ler, the Kiaora Studmcster, purchased two Enfield fillies at the Yearling Sales. The youngsters will be trained at Randwick by Bayly Payten. THE Enfield Allies from The…

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Decision Soon On 1-Day Train Stoppage

The Sun · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 2

Decision on men's demands for a one-day train stoppage throughout Australia is expected to be made this week in Melbourne by Federal Executive of the Loco Enginemen's…

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Man Killed by Train Week-end Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 4

The body of Henry N. Sullivan, 83, of Meehan street, Granville, was found on the railway line near Quaker's Hill early yesterday morning…

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Next Pacific Blow May Indicate Allied Road To Japan

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday.--Next Allied move in the Pacific is expected to reveal the strategy by which the final defeat of Japan will be accomplished…

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1-Day Train Stoppage Threat. N.S.W. Enginemen Protest On New Penalty Rates

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 5

State Council of the Loco, and Enginemen's Union yesterday unanimously decided in favor of a one-day stoppage of all electric and steam trains in New South Wales…

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Tighter Red Army Grip on Baltic Kustrin Entered On Road To Berlin From Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 3

LONDON, March 11.—The Red Air Force has taken a vigorous hand in the assault against the Baltic ports of Konigsberg and Stettin, around which the Russian ring is tightening. Red Army units are only…

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The Trams and the Public

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 2

Emboldened by their recent success in forcing the cancellation of a city carnival, members of the Tramway and Omnibus Employees…

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Train Ballot Favors Stoppage

The Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A one-day train stoppage throughout Australia now appeared inevitable, said the Federal…

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Porter Killed by Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 4

John MacKinnon, 17, a junior railway porter, was "[?] about midnight last night when he was run over by a train at Blacktown station…

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Easter Use of Peat's Bridge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

EASTER traffic over the Hawkes-bury River would be able to use the new bridge at the Peat's Ferry site, the Minister for Transport (Mr…

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Easter Use of Peat's Bridge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

EASTER traffic over the Hawkes- bury River would be able to use the new bridge at the Peat's Ferry site, the Minister for Transport (Mr…

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Easter Use of Peat's Bridge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

EASTER traffic over the Hawkes-bury River would be able to use the new bridge at the Peat's Ferry site, the Minister for Transport (Mr…

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New Hawkesbury Bridge At Easter

The Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 3

The new Hawkesbury River traffic bridge will be opened for Easter traffic, the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) said…

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Norths R.u. Train Tonight

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 15

Northern Suburbs Rugby Union Club will begin training tonight at North Sydney Oval No. 2, starting at 7.30 o'clock…

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Train, Tram Stoppage Threat One-Day Transport Hold-Up Likely In Sydney-Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 5

A nationwide hold-up of trains, and a New South Wales stoppage of trams and buses ore threatened in the next few weeks. A mass meeting of tram and bus employees…

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Drivers' Threat Over Bad Road

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 12

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- A deputation from the Newcastle Trades and Labor Council and the Burwood Miners' Lodge last…

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The Road To Socialisation I.—The Banking Way

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2

Steeped in politics, the Federal banking legislation loses the charms that it might display were it able to measure up to its title "a bill to regulate banking, to make provision for the protection of the currency and of the public credit of the…

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Rhine Bridge Blown Up by Nazis Germans Shoot Own Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 2

INSIDE GERMANY, Monday. -- German engineers blew up the Kronprinz Wilhelm Bridge, over the Rhine near Coblenz, while their own troops were retreating across it…

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Zhukov Opens Road to Berlin by Capture of Kustrin

The Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday.--Marshal Zhukov has captured the town and fortress of Kustrin, which guards the direct road to Berlin. An Order-of-the-Day from Stalin, announcing the fall of this bastion, ends a struggle that has lasted five weeks since Zhukov…

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