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Railways, roads & transport, 1950

6,876 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250

New Toll Barrier for Harbor Bridge

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

How the proposed new Harbor Bridge toll barrier will appear. Providing 12 lanes to cater for Sydney's growing traffic, instead of the present six, the new barrier will be some 400 feet nearer the city. Room for four more lanes is also earmarked for future traffic to the Quay Railway…

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New Toll Barrier for Harbor Bridge

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

How the proposed new Harbor Bridge toll barrier will appear. Providing 12 lanes to cater for Sydney's growing traffic, instead of the present six, the new barrier will be some 400 feet nearer the city. Room for four more lanes is also earmarked for future traffic to the Quay Railway…

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New Toll Barrier for Harbor Bridge

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

How the proposed new Harbor Bridge toll barrier will appear. Providing 12 lanes to cater for Sydney's growing traffic, instead of the present six, the new barrier will be some 400 feet nearer the city. Room for four more lanes is also earmarked for future traffic to the Quay Railway…

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New Toll Barrier for Harbor Bridge

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

How the proposed new Harbor Bridge toll barrier will appear. Providing 12 lanes cater for Sydney's growing traffic, instead of the present six, the new barrier will be some 400 feet nearer the city. Room for four more lanes is also earmarked for future traffic to the Quay Railway…

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New Toll Barrier for Harbor Bridge

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

How the proposed new Harbor Bridge toll barrier will appear. Providing 12 lanes to cater for Sydney's growing traffic, instead of the present six, the new barrier will be some 400 feet nearer the city. Room for four more lanes is also earmarked for future traffic to the Quay Railway…

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Road Toll Higher Than War's

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday. —Few people realised that road casualties between 1943 and 1949 were 51 per cent,…

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Responsibility For Noxious Weeds And Animals On Roads

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 12

LOCAL government views on the responsibility of the Department of Main Roads for the destruction of noxious weeds and…

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Women Train Cleaners Say They Are Best

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

Women train cleaners worked four times harder than male cleaners, Mrs. Shirley O'Brien, a…

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Women Train Cleaners Say They Are Best

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

Women train cleaners worked four times harder than male cleaners, Mrs. Shirley O'Brien, a…

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Women Train Cleaners Say They Are Best

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

Women train cleaners worked four times harder than male cleaners, Mrs. Shirley O'Brien, a…

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Women Train Cleaners Say They Are Best

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 7

Women train cleaners worked four times harder than male cleaners, Mrs. Shirley O'Brien, a…

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10,000 A Year Leave Railway Department

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

EVERY year, from 1946 to 1949, approximately 10,000 men had left the N.S.W. railway service, the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside) said yesterday. More than 40,000 employees, had been lost by retirements, resignations and dismissals…

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Berlin Faces Threat Of New Soviet Blockade Defiance by Red Railway Officers

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 3

BERLIN, Friday.-- Communist is dominated East German officials yesterday threatened battered Berlin with another blockade of rail traffic…

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Tram Strike Threatened

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 2

MELBORUNE, Friday -- Moves by the militant- controlled executive of the Tramway Employees Assn…

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Efficiency Of Spark Plugs Motors and Cycling Douglas Envoy

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

CONDITION and adjustment of spark plugs have a big influence on engine performance. One…

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Penpoints From the People Railway Bookings

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

IT is time more staff was employed at the Railway ticket office in Challis House. To buy a rail ticket is a very weary…

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Efficiency Of Spark Plugs Motors and Cycling Douglas Envoy

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

CONDITION and adjustment of spark plugs have a big influence on engine performance. One…

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Penpoints From the People Railway Bookings

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

IT is time more staff was employed at the Railway-ticket office in Challis House. To buy a rail ticket is a very weary…

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Penpoints From the People Railway Bookings

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

IT is time more staff was employed at the Railway ticket office in Challis House. To buy a rail ticket is a very weary…

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Penpoints From the People Railway Bookings

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 January 1950 · page 11

IT is time more staff was employed at the Railway ticket office in Challis House. To buy a rail ticket is a very weary…

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