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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1945

3,868 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 194

Tram Driver Hurt in City Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY FREEMAN (48), tram driver. Melfort St.. Hurlstone Park, suffered injuries to the head In a tram accident at Circular Quay…

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Tram Driver Hurt in City Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY FREEMAN .48), tram driver. Mellon St., Hurlstone Park, suffered injuries to the head Ln n tram accident at Circular Quay…

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Tram Driver Hurt in City Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY FREEMAN (48), tram driver, Melfort St., Hurlstone Park, suffered injuries to the head In a tram accident at Circular Quay…

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Railway Dispute Holds Up Mails

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 5

KALGOORLIE. Saturday. -- The acting general secretary of the Railway Employees" Union (Mr. C. Gough) will confer with railway…

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Army Motor Sales Conditions Fixed

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday. -- The first list of maximum retail selling prices for motor vehicles handed over by the Government for disposal by…

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Railway Dispute Holds Up Mails

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 5

KALGOORLIE. Saturday. -- The acting general secretary of the Railway Employees' Union (Mr. C. Gough) will confer with railway…

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Railway Dispute Holds Up Mails

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1945 · page 5

KALGOORLIE, Saturday. -- The acting general secretary of the Railway Employees' Union (Mr. C. Gough) will confer with railway…

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Train Falls Fourteen Feet

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sat.--Although six carriages were derailed and fell 14 feet, only two of 400 passengers were injured on the Auckland…

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2 injured in NZ train derailment AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 3

Four hundred passengers aboard the Wellington-to-Auckland fast express were awakened rudely in the early hours of this…

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EUROPE The road pattern of the Ardennes

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 30

Most remarkable thing about the Ardennes, where the battle of the bulge had raged for three weeks, is not its hills or its trees…

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Driver injured in tram smash

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1945 · page 10

When a tram jumped the points at the foot of Loftus-street, Circular Quay, yesterday, it collided with another tram on an…

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The Road Ahead

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 4

Instead of using the power which God gave us we were falling into the habit of accepting our opinions ready-made, or…

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Nazi Supply Road Cut Allied Gain In Belgium

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday. -- U.S. tanks driving into the northern flank of the German bulge in Belgium have cut the main enemy supply road through…

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Allied Gains on West Front American Tanks Cut Key Road Our War Correspondents and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 7.—Two of the greatest battles of the war have now developed in western Europe, with the Allies, temporarily at least, showing gains in both…

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Motorists See Red

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday.--A flew use for red ink has been reported by the Office for Price Administration…

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Air Blows Disrupt German Railways

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.--Almost non-stop Allied bombing of German transport communications is creating a terrific problem for Marshal von Rundstedt. Latest blows were:--…

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Man Dragged Under Tram

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 7

An elderly man struck by a tram in Elizabeth Street, City, yesterday, was carried under the tram and thrown…

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Main Roads in Peril

The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 1

Nine miles of Rundstedt's supply road through the northern part of the corridor has been seized, a further six miles is…

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Struggle for Roads Developing Our War Correspondent. Harold Austin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 1

WITH U.S. FORCES, Jan. 3.— The offensive to link the First and Third United States Armies has developed into a battle for…

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Two Cases of Gelignite Lay on Road All Day

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 14

'TWO cases, each containing 50lb. of gelignite, lay on McLaurln Parade. Roseville, all day yesterday. The cases were seen by Mr. Frederick…

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