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Railways, roads & transport, 1947

6,390 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

Trams, Buses to Stop 3 Minutes

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 3

All trams and buses in the metropolitan area will stop for three minutes tomorrow as a mark of respect for a tram…

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Body on Railway Line

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 3

THE body of a man found lying on the railway line near Lidcombe station early this morning has been identified as that of Robert William…

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Body on Railway Line

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 3

THE body of a man found lying on the railway line near Lidcombe station early this morning has been identified as that of Robert William…

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Trams, Buses to Stop 3 Minutes

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 3

All trams and buses in the metropolitan area will stop for three minutes tomorrow as a mark of respect for a tram…

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Trams, Buses to Stop 3 Minutes

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 3

All trams and buses in the metropolitan area will stop for three minutes tomorrow as a mark of respect for a tram…

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Body on Railway Line

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 3

THE body of a man found lying on the railway line near Lidcombe station early this morning has been identified as that of Robert William…

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Struck by Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 3

A man was struck by a train and killed while he was crossing the railway line at Lidcombe railway station yesterday morning…

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Train Crowds Again Held Up

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 5

SOME of the crowd held up at St. Peters Station last night. Ticket examiners looked at the date and destination of every ticket, and punched every weekly ticket in the correct section…

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Fell Off Train; Caught Next

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 3

LITHGOW, Friday.—While police and railway officials were organising a search for a man who fell from the Bourke mail…

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508 Road Deaths in 1946

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 1

The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) yesterday announced that 508 people were killed and 8140 injured in road accidents in New South Wales last year. Mr. Neale said there were 11,901 road accidents during the year…

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Trucks Run On Road Of Ice; Freeze In Europe Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Feb. 21.—The whole of Europe remains gripped, in intense cold. Snow fell throughout England during the night, and…

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"Herald" Week-end Magazine Low Flying Over Sydney—Have Manners Improved?—England Clings to Music—A Horse-trainer's Day—General Articles That Aeroplane Over Your Roof

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 7

IF you are awakened late at night, or too early in the morning, by the sound of a heavy airliner passing low…

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[?] to your [?] de The day is fast approaching when, walking to work in the early mornings, we will see front gates, porches, and the back seats of motor cars draped with the bodies of the nation's lovers. Their deaths will not have been due to violence from a jealous rival or to impatience by the father of the chosen maiden at an over-long parting. The bodies will be those of victims of allergy: the suitors will have bee n kissed to death by the women they loved

The World's News · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 14

YOU rub your eyes; that doesn't seem possible. It isn't—yet. But it may become everyday news in the future if the present increase in…

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Protest Stoppage To-day By Trams, Buses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 1

Trams and buses in the metropolitan area will stop at 1 p.m. to-day for three minutes to mark the death of a footboard…

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3-Minute Tram Halt

The Sun · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 3

No serious congestion of traffice occurred during the three-minute interruption of tram and bus services today…

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3-Minute Tram Stoppage Today

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 7

Tramway and bus men will hold a three-minute stoppage today in protest against the retention of footboard trams…

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Changes in Railway Telephone Numbers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 9

The telephone numbers of the railway inquiry office and the parcels office have been changed. From today, the inquiry office…

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Trams Will Stop for Three Minutes

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 3

ALL trams and buses in the metropolitan area will stop for three minutes at 1 p.m. today as a protest against footboard trams…

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Stoppage Of Trams, Buses

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 2

Trams and buses came to a standstill and their crews stood bareheaded at attention for three minutes at 1 o'clock…

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Stoppage Of Trams, Buses

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 February 1947 · page 2

Trams and buses came to a. standstill and their crews stood bareheaded at attention for three minutes at 1 o'clock…

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