Car Saved From Drop Off Road
Dazzled by the headlights of an oncoming car, a man drove off the side of the main road up Kurrajong Heights…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
6,390 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 250
Serious Flood Threat on Coast Suburbs, Roads, Crops Washed Out In Q'ld
Widespread floods are likely in northern New South Wales within the next 24 hours, when a cyclone, moving south from Queensland, is expected to reach this area. Heavy rains which continued in southern Queensland on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When a Tram Conductress Was Frustrated by Our Modern Metropolitan Morality
WE are rotting, I am certain of that, so certain, that I am ashamed with a black and burning shame…
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MOSCOW.—The railways of the Baltic Soviet Republics, totally destroyed by the Germans, have now been completely repaired…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Penalty rates for weekend work would probably cost Sydney and Newcastle tramways £307,866…
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LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--It is officially announced in Buenos Aires that Argentina has paid 600,000,000 dollars…
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LONDON Friday. -- The agreement under which the Argentine Government gets the 11 British-owned railways in the Argentine for…
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LONDON, Friday.--The agreement under which the Argentine Government gets the 11 British-owned railways in the Argentine for £150,…
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WIDESPREAD complaints about delays and dilapidation of British railways were shown to be related to world economic problems, when Mr. G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Smash, 50 Hurt
NEW YORK, Friday.--At least 50 persons were injured when the streamlined Orange Blossom Special, speeding from Miami to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Leaderless Legion Train Comfort
ISN'T it time that some element of comfort was introduced into distance train travel? For those unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Cash Prize Competition Awards for This Week Published below are the four prize-winning entries in "World's News" cash prize competition for this week, in which "World's News" gives two prizes of £1 and two prizes of 10/- for the best 150-word description of "What I Would Like To See Invented." The series is now closed. Tram Indicators
I WOULD like to see a microphone installed on all trams, so the driver could broadcast the name of approaching stops to all passengers. He has an…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →It's a Silly World Isn't It? Strong man 26-year-old Alexander Marshall, of Portland, pulled three goods waggons weighing 19 tons for more than 50 feet along a railway track with his teeth. But that is only one queer thing going on in this silly world of ours
WHEN a letter was delivered to a Totnes. Devon, firm by post, the envelope had a ragged hole, and inside were two £1 notes with holes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tram Conductor Falls
Nathan Fairbanks, 30, tram conductor, of Parramatta-road. Auburn, dislocated his right thumb when he fell from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cyclist Hurt
Leslie Paxton,' 24, of the Dr, Bainardo's Children's Home, Picton, received a fractured kneecap, a fractured arm and shock…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →City Tram Crash; Driver Charged
A tram driver was charged with having driven while drunk following a collision between two trams in Broadway, City, last night. Twelve persons were injured,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sea Spume on Rails Holds Up Bondi Trams
Sea spume last night stopped trams at Bondi Beach. A north-easterly wind blew spray across the Esplanade and as far as Bondi Road, Bondi,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Foot Badly Crushed by Tram
Peter Anderson (34), Norwegian staying at Presbyterian Hostel, George St., City, had his right foot badly crushed when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist in Smash with Car
KENNETH BAYLISS (19), Anglesea St., Bondi, suffered extensive injuries when his motor cycle and a car collided at the corner of Glen St…
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KENNETH BAYLISS (19), Anglesea St., Bondi, suffered extensive injuries when his motor cycle and a car collided at the corner of Glen St…
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