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Railways, roads & transport, 1946

6,185 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 250

Union policy on tram girls awaited

The Sun · Sunday 17 March 1946 · page 2

Moves to rescind a motion carried four years ago protesting against the employment of women will be made at a…

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Woman Killed By Goods Train

The Sun · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 3

GOULBURN, Monday.--Margaret Carroll married, was killed' by a goods train as she walked on the railway bridge between…

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Train Hits Stalled Ice Lorry

The Sun · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 3

Stalling on a railway line at a level-crossing (according to police), an ice lorry was struck by a steam train…

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Lorry Hit By Train: Driver Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 8

SHOUTING a warning to the driver, a man jumped clear from the running board of a motor lorry as a goods train crashed into it at the Adderton Rd. level-crossing at Carlingford…

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Man's Arteries Cut Climbing Into Train

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 5

A man who attempted to board a train through a window at Gosford yesterday was seriously injured. Wallace Pay, 20, of Brook Street. Cook's Hill, was a…

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Train Crashes Into Lorry, Driver Hurt

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

When a train crashed into a motor lorry loaded with ice at Adderton Rd., Dundas, level crossing, early this…

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Lorry Hit By Train; Driver Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 8

SHOUTING a warning to the driver, a man jumped clear from the running board of a motor lorry as a goods train crashed into it at the Adderton Rd. level-crossing at Carlingford…

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Lorry Hit By Train; Driver injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 8

SHOUTING a warning to the driver, a man jumped clear from the running board of a motor lorry as a goods train crashed into it at the Adderton Rd. level-crossing at Carlingford…

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Lorry Hit By Train; Driver Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 8

SHOUTING a warning to the driver, a man jumped clear from the running board of a motor lorry as a goods train crashed into it at the Adderton Rd. level-crossing at Dundas this…

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Change-over on Trams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

It is as futile for conductresses on the trams and buses to rebel against their retrenchment now as it was for the union to resist their introduction to…

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'Mother Saves Baby In George-st. Tram Smash

The Sun · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 3

A mother saved her five-weeks-old baby son from injury when two trams collided in…

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Protest Unlikely From Tram Union

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 4

Tonight's meeting of members of the tram section of the Tram and Bus Employees' Union is not likely to upset the…

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City Tram Derailment

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 3

PASSENGERS GOT a bad jolting when this Railway-bound tram jumped the rails at the corner of Goulburn and Elizabeth Streets this morning. Although travelling at only a low speed, the tram travelled about 20 yards on the roadway before emergency brakes stopped it. Traffic was dislocated for about 30 minutes…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 6

KEVIN HOBMAN (20), Jersey Ave., Mortdale, suffered a fractured skull and abrasions when he was thrown from his motor cycle in…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 6

KEVIN HOBMAN (20), Jersey Ave., Mortdale, suffered a fractured skull and abrasions when he was thrown from his motor cycle in…

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Viceroy's Son-In-Law Killed In Motor Smash

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 6

NEW DELHI, Monday.--Major the Hon. S. N. Astley, youngest son of Lord Hastings and son-in-law of the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, died on Saturday after a motor accident at Quetta. The details of the…

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City Tram Derailment

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 15

PASSENGERS GOT a bad jolting when this Railway-bound tram jumped the rails at the corner of Goulburn and Elizabeth Streets this morning. Although travelling at only a low speed, the tram travelled about 20 yards on the roadway before emergency brakes stopped it. Traffic was dislocated for about 30 minutes…

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Crowded City Trams In Smash: Six Hurt

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 3

Six persons were injured when one tram crashed into the rear of another at the intersection of George and Liverpool streets, City, this afternoon, it was the 23rd smash involving trams in the past six months…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 6

KEVIN HOBMAN (20), Jersey Ave, Mortdale, suffered a fractured skull and abrasions when he was thrown from his motor cycle in…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 6

KEVIN HOBMAN (20), Jersey Ave., Mortdale, suffered a fractured skull and abrasions when he was thrown from his motor cycle in…

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