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Railways, roads & transport, 1948

5,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 250

Aeroplane Hits Post During Sand Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 2

DARWIN, Saturday.--A Trans-Australia Airlines DC3 was slightly damaged while taxiing at Tennant's Creek during…

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Aeroplane Hits Post During Sand Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 5

DARWIN, Saturday.--A Trans-Australia Airlines DC3 was slightly damaged while taxiing at Tenuant's Creek during…

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Stunter Killed In Bridge Dive

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.--An unidentified stuntman was killed when he leapt from the Golden Gate bridge at the…

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Stunter Killed In Bridge Dive

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.--An unidentified stuntman was killed when he leapt from the Golden Gate bridge at the…

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Stunter Killed In Bridge Dive

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.--An unidentified stuntman was killed when he leapt from the Golden Gate bridge at the…

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Stunter Killed In Bridge Dive

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.--An unidentified stuntman was killed when he leapt from the Golden Gate bridge at the…

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Stunter Killed In Bridge Dive

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.--An unidentified stuntman was killed when he leapt from the Golden Gate bridge at the…

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Bondholders Hit Railway Finances

Tribune · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 6

BRISBANE.—Had it not been for interest payments to bondholders, the Queensland Government Railways would have been showing…

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Man under tram at Darlinghurst

The Sun · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 1

Tram traffic was delayed for 10 minutes at the peak hour at Taylor's Square today when Wilfred Lewis, 65, pensioner…

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Veteran Motorists

The Sun · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 3

The council of the Veteran Motorists of Australia (NSW) has placed upon record its appreciation of the…

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Man Dies In Bridge Leap

Truth · Sunday 8 February 1948 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday.—With three small parachutes attached to his back, a man leaped 265 feet to his death from the Golden Gate bridge yesterday while a cameraman took pictures of his…

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Unknown man killed by train

The Sun · Sunday 8 February 1948 · page 28

AN unidentified man was killed when he fell from a moving train and was run over by…

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Police Identify Train Victim

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 8

Police yesterday identified a man killed on Saturday night when he fell between two trains near Rhodes station…

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Man killed, struck by train

The Sun · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 2

An unidentified middle-aged man was killed instantly today when struck by a Cronulla-bound train between St…

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Help for Road, Rail Services

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 5

Early action to relieve the threat to the State's economy caused by mounting losses of the railways and the Road Transport Department is to be taken by the State Government…

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Help for Road, Rail Services

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 2

Early action tp relieve the threat to the State's economy caused by mounting losses of the railways and the Road Transport Department is to be taken by the State Government…

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Help for Road, Rail Services

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 5

Early action to relieve the threat to the State's economy caused by mounting Bosses of the railways and the Road Transport Department is to be taken by the State Government…

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4 Killed In Road Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Four men were killed and another was critically…

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Help for Road, Rail Services

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 5

Early action to relieve the threat to the State's economy caused by mounting losses of the railways and the Road Transport Department is to be taken by the State Government…

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Help for Road, Rail Services

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 5

Early action to relieve the threat to the State's economy caused by mounting losses of the. railways and the Road Transport Department is to be taken by the State Government…

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