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Railways, roads & transport, 1953

6,017 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 250

Editorial The opinions expressed in this Journal are not necessarily those of the Master Builders' Association, unless otherwise stated.} Safer Roads

Construction · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 1

Road safety lectures and exhortations have been with us for years and yet the past holiday season has been marred by a distressing number of fatal accidents. More intensified police activity is the only solution the authorities…

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How Bridges Have Increased Man's Mobility Presented at the Centennial of Engineering Structures and Construction CONVOCATION.(Reprinted from the American Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, Inc.—Bi-Monthly, August, 1952.)

Construction · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 9

The past century has seen the transformation of America-from a young pioneer settlement to a great and flourishing nation, taking its place…

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Western Railway Project Contracts Resumed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 1

The Premier,,Mr. J. J. Cahill, last night said the Railways Department would abide by its contract with the Metropolitan Vickers Company for the supply of electric…

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Budapest Underground Railway First Station Completed

Construction · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 5

The tunnels, platforms, escalator shafts and ground-level hall of the “People's Stadium” station of the new Budapest underground railway…

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Boston Elevated Railways Unification of System Claimed to Be Best

Construction · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 4

The City of Boston, Massachusetts, one of a hundred American cities using various forms of mass transportation methods to handle its teeming…

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SUN Readers Say Stationary trams

The Sun · Wednesday 7 January 1953 · page 17

Our traffic police are doing a great job, particularly with regard to drinking drivers and speedhogs…

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Train Over Bridge

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 9

BRISBANE, Wed.--Twelve trucks of a goods train today plunged into a creek…

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Trucks disrupt train services

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 1

Train services between Bankstown and Sefton were interrupted for two hours today after two…

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Last Train Too Early

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 31

Kembla Grange race club officials were criticised by punters today at Hawkesbury over the…

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Man sees train kill daughters

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Wed.--A man saw his two daughters killed today when an express hit a lorry at a level crossing…

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The tax road to ruin

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 8

LAST year Australians paid six times as much in taxation as they did in…

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Taxi-driver killed in road smash

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2

A taxi-driver was fatally injured when his cab was crushed between two trams at…

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No Easy Road For Lew Hoad

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Thurs. --Shock Davis Cup selection, Lewis Hoad, has a tough draw in the…

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No Easy Road For Lew Hood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 31

MELBOURNE, Thurs. --Shock Davis Cup selection, Lewis Hoad, has a tough draw in the…

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Flooding may cut railway

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 11

ADELAIDE, Thursday. --The North -South railway line was almost certain to be cut by the…

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One Killed, One Injured in Taxi-tram Collision Man Charged After Fatal Mascot Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 3

George Wilson Reynolds (27), tramdriver, Davidson Crescent, Maroubra, appeared at Redfern Court today on a charge of manslaughter…

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Quay Railway Plan "Tragedy," Says Prof

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2

The Circular Quay overhead railway was a tragedy, Professor Gordon Stephenson said today. The railway would ruin…

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Wreckage of Death Taxi CarTram Smash: One Killed, 1 Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 1

A man was killed, and another injured, in a taxi-tram collision at the intersection of Lords and Botany roads, Mascot, this morning. The dead man was the…

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Quay Railway Plan "Tragedy." Says Prof

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2

The Circular Quay overhead railway was a tragedy, Professor Gordon Stephenson said today. The railway would ruin…

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Wreckage of Death Taxi One Killed, One Hurt: Taxi and Tram Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 3

A man was killed, and another injured, in a taxi-tram collisioh at the intersection of Lords And Botany Rds., Mascot, this morning…

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