Dragged 66 feet Woman Falls From Fast Train
MELBOURNE, Friday. -- A married woman fell out of a speeding express electric train at Windsor Station today and was seriously…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1954
5,820 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 250
LETTERETTES 50-50 in Fifty Words Peril on road
Why the agitation for better roads? Better roads mean higher speeds, more accidents,…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Safety Belts Needed In Motor Cars
ST. LOUIS.—Safety belts in motor cars could save thousands of lives in road accidents, an American Medical Association (A.M.A.) exhibit indicates…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Abusing Your Motor Car
The N.R.M.A. engineers here list some of the common forms of abuse of motor vehicles:…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →People and Paragraphs Railway To Pay
NEW SOUTH WALES taxpayers, faced with soaring transport deficits, may be interested to know…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →MOTORING New Cars Feature More Colors And Lower Bodies
DETROIT.—More color, lower silhouettes and increased power mark most of the new 1954 model automobiles so far introduced. Nearly a dozen of the…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Railway Porter On Drink Charge
Clement Ignatius Walsh, 36, rail porter, of the Railway Chalet, East Bankstown, pleaded not guilty in Central…
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Police yesterday charged a railway porter with having been found under the influence of drink while…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Special decorations for Sydney trams
FOUR SYDNEY trams and four single-deck buses have been decorated for the Royal visit. Each tram has a 5ft. crown on the roof and four Royal cipher panels on the sides…
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Sir,—Now that the holidays are over, the temporary slackening of morning traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men killed by train
MELBOURNE, Fri. -- After a train and a motor cycle collided tonight the bodies of two men who had…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fatal Fall Under Train
Alexander Speed (68), Church St., St. Peters, was fatally injured when he fell under a train near…
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Alexander Speed (68) Church St., St. Peters, was fatally injured when he fell under a train near…
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Alexander Speed (68), Church St., St. Peters, was fatally injured when he fell under a train near…
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A man who was critically injured when he fell from a train near Rockdale station last…
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A train last Saturday killed a man who had been charged on Friday With haying been under the influence of liquor while driving the Blue…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →100 Feared Dead in Train Fire
LONDON, Jan. 22 (A.A.P.).—The Reuters correspondent in Karachi says that about 60 people are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man's Arms Severed In Train Fall
An elderly man's arms were severed late last night when he fell from a train approaching Rockdale…
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Transport officials would divert trams between Crow's Nest and North Sydney Post Office…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Injured cyclist sore about bridge
An 18-years-old youth who received severe abrasions from a fall when riding a bicycle across the Harbor Bridge this week said yesterday that dozens of cyclists' lives were endangered by the position…
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