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Sheila – slang for "woman", derived from the feminine Irish given name Síle (pronounced [ˈʃiːlʲə]), commonly anglicised Sheila). Yobbo – an Australian variation on the UK slang yob, meaning someone who is loud, rude and obnoxious, behaves badly, anti-social, and frequently drunk (and prefixed by "drunken").
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A suburban electric train Spragger (SAR) Employee who applies brakes on rolling stock in yard work [2] Staff System of safe-working used on single track to allow the movement of trains; in its simplest form each block section had a small bar or staff which must be carried by any train moving over the section.
From the Macquarie (Australian) dictionary: mole //noun Colloquial moll (def. 2). From the Australian Oxford dictionary: Mole n. colloq. derog. girl or woman. (probably a variant of moll girl or woman.) So in both dictionaries it says that the Aussie slang term is spelt mole not moll. --Silversmith Hewwo 04:23, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
A young girl in Sydney, Australia, came very close to getting hit by a train. She was playing with a hoola-hoop on the platform when it rolled onto the tracks. Then, the girl ran after it and ...
The woman, who was struck by the Amtrak Piedmont 72 early Tuesday afternoon, was in her thirties. Woman fatally hit by train while crossing railroad trestle in Hillsborough, officials say Skip to ...
The man and woman who died were in a car on the Lochiel–Blyth road when an Adelaide-bound freight train hit the vehicle just before 4 pm, killing them instantly. The train, travelling at over 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph), hit the car. The SA-registered, late-model Ford Falcon Utility was split in two. The front half slid across the road ...
Two people were killed and 12 others were injured when an Australian interstate train derailed outside Melbourne on Thursday evening, police said. The train, which was traveling from Sydney, came ...