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Railways, roads & transport, 1949

6,149 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Penpoints From the People Train Travel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 8

ALMOST every week we read of someone falling from an electric train. To see the. way passengers are allowed to pack…

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Penpoints From the People Train Travel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 8

ALMOST every week we read of someone falling from an electric train. To see the way passengers are allowed to pack…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Penpoints From the People Train Travel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 8

ALMOST every week we read of someone falling from an electric train. To see the way passengers are allowed to pack…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Penpoints From the People Train Travel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 8

ALMOST every week we read of someone falling from an electric train. To see the way passengers are allowed to pack…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Penpoints From the People Train Travel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 8

ALMOST every week we read of someone falling from an electric train. To see the way passengers are allowed to pack…

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Sprint star won't train on wet track

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 20

Olympic sprinter Lloyd La Beach prefers not to train rather than to take the risk of running on a wet track. La Beach has not had a fast…

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50-50 Traps On Roads (Letterettes in Fifty Words.) Danger

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 12

Now we are in the middle of a road safety campaign, what about the No. 1 menace--the…

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Expert's View 'Open Mind' On Trams Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 10.— Mr. "George F. Sinclair said to-day that he knew some of the N.S.W. trams…

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Driver Of Tram Faced The Rear

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 5

The Traffic Court- was fold today that a tram- driver, whose vehicle collided with a car, was facing the rear of the tram for about 20 to 50 yards immediately before the collision…

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Driver Of Tram Faced The Rear

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

The Traffic Court was told today that a tram-driver, whose vehicle collided with a car, was facing the rear of the tram for about 20 to 50 yards immediately before the…

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Criticism of Railways Appointments Union's Hostile Protest Motion M.P.s to Seek Open Inquiry

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

STRONG criticism of railway appointments was made last night at a meeting of the executive and council of the Railway and Tramway Officers'…

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Treaty Calls for Railway Inquiry "Calamitous" Deficit Claimed Protest Vote by Unionists

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

CHARGES of gross inefficiency, bad management, and political manoeuvring within the State Railways, called for a wide public inquiry into…

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Criticism of Railways Appointments Union's Hostile Protest Motion . M.P.s to Seek Open Inquiry

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

STRONG criticism of railway appointments was made last night at a meeting of the executive and council of the Railway and Tramway Officers'…

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Driver Of Tram Faced The Rear

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 5

The Traffic Court was told today that a tramdriver, whose vehicle collided with a car,was facing the rear of the tram for about 20 to 50 yards immediately before the collision…

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Driver Of Tram Faced The Rear

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 5

The Traffic Court was told today that a tramdriver, whose vehicle collided with a car, was facing the rear of the tram for about 20 to 50 yards immediately before the collision…

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Rules for Children in Trams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

The Road Transport and Tramways Department did not insist on young children standing…

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Treatt Calls for Railway Inquiry "Calam itous" Deficit Claimed Protest Vote by Unionists

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

CHARGES of gross inefficiency, bead management, and political manoeuvring within, the State Railways, called for a wide public inquiry into…

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Driver Of Tram Faced The Rear

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 5

The Traffic Court was told today that a tramdriver, whose vehicle collided with a car, was facing the rear of the tram for about 20 to 50 yards immediately, before the collision…

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Opposition to Urge Railway Inquiry Govt. Move OnService Dispute Protest Vote by Unionists

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

THE State Opposition is expected to press for an open inquiry, when the House meets next month, into the state of affairs now existing in the Railways…

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Songs for Road Safety

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 January 1949 · page 4

SGT. WILBURN LEGREE, of Flint, Michigan, sings to a group of children. He is probably the only policeman who earns his living by singing songs. His theme is road safety--and Flint is now the second safest city in…

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