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Railways, roads & transport, 1951

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10,000 in Railway Hold-up Failure delays 19 trains

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 9

Failure of a set of signals at Wynyard Station last night delayed more…

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Harbor Bridge Tram Collision; 3 HURT Driver Trapped In Cabin

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Three tramway employees were injured when one tram crashed into the rear of another tram on…

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Harbor Bridge Tram Collision; 3 HURT Driver Trapped In Cabin

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Three tramway employees were injured when one tram crashed into the rear of another tram on…

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Harbor Bridge Tram Collision; 3 HURT Driver Trapped in Cabin

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Three tramway employees were injured when one tram crashed into the rear of another tram on…

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"Harbor Bridge Tram Collision; 3 HURT Driver Trapped In Cabin

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Three tramway employees were injured when one tram crashed into the rear of another tram on…

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Harbor Bridge Tram Collision; 3 HURT Driver Trapped In Cabin

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Three tramway employees were injured when one tram crashed into the rear of another tram on…

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Two Hurt in Train Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Two men were injured when an eingine collided with a stock train at a siding at Cowan last…

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Two Hurt in Train Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Two men were injured when an engine collided with a stock train at a siding at Cowan last…

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Two Hurt in Train Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Two men were injured when an engine collided with a stock train at a siding at Cowan last…

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Two Hurt in Train Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Two men were injured when an engine collided with a stock train at a siding at Cowan last…

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Two Hurt As Loco Hits Train

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 1

Two men were injured last night when a locomotive crashed into the back of a stock train on a siding at…

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Tax Cut on Road Freights

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 4

Maximum tax on goods carried by road to and from Victoria will be reduced from 3d to 2d a ton…

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Tax Cut on Road Freights

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 4

Maximum tax on goods carried by road to and from Victoria will be reduced from 3d to 2d a ton…

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Tax Cut on Road Freights

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 4

Maximum tax on goods carried by road to and from Victoria will be reduced from 3d to 2d a ton…

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Harbor Bridge Collision; 3 HURT Driver Trapped In Cabin

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 11

Three tramway employees were injured when one tram crashed into the rear of another tram on…

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Scheme for protection of roads Checks on Weight, Cut in Tax

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 5

The Transport Department will try to protect surfaces of main roods in southern New South Wales by: Lowering the…

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Lower Road Tax for Lorries But They Will Have To Be Weighed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

From Monday next the road tax for lorries operating between Victoria and the Newcastle, Wollongong, and Sydney districts will be reduced from 3d to 2d a ton a mile…

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You will be given a chance to decade Are our road safety campaigns stark enough?

The Sun · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 15

The NSW road toll last year--632 killed and over 10,000 injured--was an all-time high. The number of deaths was 44 more…

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Protectionist Policy For Trams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 2

The striking taxi-men having resumed work, Mr. Winsor has acted wisely in deciding that the new "job card" system should…

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New Australian Killed By Motor Cycle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 3

A man died after being knocked down by a motor cyclist at the railway bridge in Cooper Road, Birrong,…

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