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Railways, roads & transport, 1948

5,065 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 250

Bus crashes into overhead bridge

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 2

A double-decker bus was badly damaged when it struck an overhead train bridge in Old Botany-road,…

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Road Transport to Queensland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 2

The McGirr Government landed itself in a series of miserable shifts and compromises by its determination…

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Tax Money for Roads Conference Soon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

Local governing bodies are pressing for bigger grants from the Federal tax on petrol…

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Engine crashes into train: 2 crewmen hurt

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

WAGGA, Wednesday.--A driver and fireman were injured in a spectacular collision between a light locomotive and a stationary goods train early today. The light engine crashed…

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Transport By Road To Qld. Permitted

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 6

The Road Transport Department will allow N.S.W. road operators to take to Queensland goods which the Queensland Liaison Officer in Sydney…

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Two Injured in Train Smash Goods Van, Engine Wrecked Man's Leg Broken in Jump to Safety

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 11

WAGGA, Wednesday. -- The driver and fireman were injured today in a collision between a light locomotive and a stationary goods train at…

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Two Injured in Train Smash Goods Van, Engine Wrecked Man's Leg Broken in Jump to Safety

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 11

WAGGA, WAGGA, Wednesday.--The driver and fireman were injured today in a collision between a light locomotive and a stationary goods train at…

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Two Injured in Train Smash Goods Van, Engine Wrecked Man's Leg Broken in Jump to Safety

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 11

WAGGA, Wednesday. -- The driver and fireman were injured today in a collision between a light locomotive and a stationary goods train at…

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Two Injured in Train Smash Goods Van, Engine Wrecked Man's Leg Broken in Jump to Safety

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 11

WAGGA, WAGGA, Wednesday.--The driver and fireman were injured today in a collision between a light locomotive and a stationary goods train at…

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Merrylands District Motor Cycle Club

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 4

At a club T. T. held on Sunday, 7th March many members turned up and a good day's racing was the result In the final of the handicap four riders…

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Queensland Railway Strike Locomotive Enginemen Return to Work Proposed 24-Hour General Strike Cancelled Labor Government's Law to Control Picketing and Prevent Intimidation

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

Definite signs of the early collapse of the Queensland railway strike were foreshadowed yesterday by the return to work of more than 2000 members of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen and…

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Royal Tour Money Would Buy 83 Trams

Tribune · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 1

QUOTING press reports that the Commonwealth Government would spend at least £500,000 when the King and Queen visit Australia…

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Sydney’s Aged Trams Menace Life And Limb

Tribune · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 6

IF you have a healthy desire to live don’t risk beating one of Sydney’s old fashioned trams to a crossing—most of them can’t pull up under 35 yards. If it’s a rainy day DON’T is in capital letters because…

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Buses failure in city says tram union secty

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 6

Secretary of the Tramway Employees' Union (Mr. J. Brock) agreed today with the statement of the Melbourne Tramway Board chairman (Mr. H. H. Bell) that buses wore a failure in a big city…

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Mate had left ship's bridge

The Sun · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3

The bridge of the British vessel Bopple had been left unattended when she ran aground near Bateman's…

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Motor Cyclist Killed

The Sun · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--Leslie Gordon Watts, 29, was killed instantly when his motor-cycle collided with a…

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Motor Boating. Speedboat Championship

The Propeller · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 2

Under the auspices of the George's River branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club the New South Wales unlimited speedboat championship for…

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Protest Strike in N.S.W. MINES Support For Qld. Railmen Yesterday's developments in the Queensland railway strike

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 1

Western New South Wales miners decided to call a 24-hour strike today of all their mines as a protest against police action in breaking up a railway strikers' demonstration in Brisbane yesterday…

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New Motorship in Service Soon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 16

THE Coramba (3550 tons), a new motorship for the A.U.S.N. cargo fleet, is due in Sydney in about six weeks' time…

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New Motorship in Service Soon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 2

THE Coramba (3550 tons), a new motorship for the A.U.S.N. cargo fleet, is due in Sydney in about six weeks' time…

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