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Railways, roads & transport, 1950

6,876 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 250

Service Page Ships, Air Services Mails, Road, Weather Shipping

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 14

Changsha, from Melbourne, 6 'Loo, 5.17 a.m., Adelaide S.S. Co., BW2911; Chyebossa, from East Africa, stream, 6.52 a.m.. Burns Philp, BU5901;…

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Car Crashes 30ft On To Railway Line; Five Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 3

CAR GOES OVER BANK AT LAWSON A car carrying five people crashed through the fence of an overhead bridge at Lawson yesterday, landed on its nose on the railway line 30 feet below…

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Plebiscite At Vaucluse Favours Trams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 4

The Vaucluse Progress Association announced in the week-end that in its plebiscite on local transport, 88 per cent. of voters…

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Weighing Change Railway Plan For Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 5

The Railways Department will probably soon discontinue weighing wool in trucks on its…

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Motorist held up sick child

The Sun · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 1

A motorist who ignored a policeman's signal when he had stopped traffic to allow an ambulance to rush a seriously injured child to hospital was fined £60 in Paddington…

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Railway Bridges on Mountains As "Death-traps"

The Sun · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

Blue Mountains residents said today that a number of bridges across the Mountains railway line were "nothing short of death traps." They referred particularly…

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Tramway strike prevented

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Sun.--A last-minute State Government offer today…

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Grave Shortage of Railway Coal

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) will confer with the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside)…

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Another Move to Keep Trams

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

The Woollahra Council is expected tonight to convene another public meeting to discuss retention of…

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Another Move to Keep Trams

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 6

The Woollahra Council is expected tonight to convene another public meeting to discuss retention of…

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Peron Has No More Tramps

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 10

Argentina, which has prospered since the war by demanding and receiving exorbitant prices for meat…

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Another Move to Keep Trams

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 6

The Woollahra Council is expected tonight to convene another public meeting to discuss retention of…

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Grave Shortage of Railway Coal

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 3

The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) will confer with the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside)…

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Another Move to Keep Trams

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 6

The Woollahra Council ! is expected tonight to convene another public meeting to discuss retention of…

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Peron Has No More Tramps

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 10

Argentina, which has prospered since the war by demanding and receiving exorbitant prices for meat…

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Grave Shortage of Railway Coal

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 3

The Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) will confer with the Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside)…

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Another Move to Keep Trams

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

The Woollahra Council is expected tonight to convene another public meeting to discuss retention of…

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Another Move to Keep Trams

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 6

The Wollahra Council is expected tonight to convene another public meeting to discuss retention of…

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Another Move to Keep Trams

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 6

The Woollahra Council is expected tonight to convene another public meeting to discuss retention of…

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Archbishop on Moral Trammss

Daily Mirror · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday.-- Preaching at a Red Mass in St. Stephen's Cathedral, to mark the opening of…

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