Holiday Railway Traffic
Compared with Anniversary Day last year, there was a big falling off in the number of people travelling from Maitland to Newcastle yesterday. The extremely hot weather…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1915
1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 62
Telarah Railway Bridge
A danger existing in connection with the bridge over the North Coast Railway at Telarah received attention at a meeting of the Homeville and Telarah Progress Association last evening…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Smash. at Central Railway Station
A sensational accident occurred at the Central Railway Station, Sydney, on Wednesday afternoon. An empty passenger train smashed through on to the main assembling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Smash at Central Station. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
A sensational smash occurred at the Central Railway Station this afternoon. An empty passenger train was being backed into No. 7 platform, when it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cycling. Reliability Trial
The Maitland District Motor Cycle Club on tuesday last held the first of a series of three competitions to decide the winner of the Speedwell Cup (donated by Bennett…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Tax
More than half of the owners of motor cars and motor have been not yet paid the tax upon their vehicles in accordance with the Finance (Taxation) Act. The owners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Sheds Wrecked by Allies' Airmen
An Amsterdam paper states that the recent raid by the allied airmen resulted in complete wreckage of a motor car repairing shed, containing 400 cars…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German Town. Aeroplane Attack. Copenhagen, Jan 29
Berlin newspapers are circulating a report that aeroplanes dropped bombs on Dertmund (20 miles north-east of Essen), doing considerable damage. Twenty-one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sorry Motor Car Experience
The man who has been misguided into the purchase of some particular car by someone directly or indirectly interested in the sale of it, does not, for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North Coast Railway. Proposed Deviation
A public meeting at Grafton was addressed by delegates from Woolgoolga in favour of causing further inquiry respecting a deviation in the North Coast railway…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock to Cookie Creek Railway
Mr. W. Kearsley, M.L.A., has forwarded to the "Cessnock District, Chamber of Commerce a letter received from the Sydney Chamber of Commerce in which the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Revenue. Big Decreases
The report of the Railway Commissioner for the quarter ending December 31 shows a decrease in the earnings of £62,793, the totals being £2,000,737 for the 1913…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Long Motor Drive
Mr. T. Easterbrook, of Singleton, left on Saturday morning in his "Paige" 25 h.p. car for Rolland's Plains, near Port Macquarie, and arrived there on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Explosion. Motor Launch on Fire
Yesterday afternoon, a sensation was caused in Lavender Bay, near the baths, when flames shot up from a motor launch in which a party of about 16 persons was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local News. Train Alteration
The alterations in the time-table of the Railway Department have been postponed until February This is very significant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Dangerous Pace. Motor-car Driver Fined
John Fennelly was proceeded against at the Paddington Police Court by the traffic police for driving a motor-car in a manner dangerous to the public, in Oxford-street…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Enemy in Canada. Hallway Bridge Destroyed. Montreal
The railway bridge connecting Montreal with Halifax and other Atlantic points, has been destroyed by dynamite. Eagerman, an officer on the steamer Van…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Denman Railway
We are reliably informed that the carriage conveying coaching traffic to Denman lacks necessary convenience. This is hard to understand, even it the line lias not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Cars in British Army
Leading authorities have preclaimed the 2-seater car is incomparable, for the reason that rough, hard, or boggy roads are all the same to it. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Patriotic Fund. General Meeting of Committees. Votes to French, Motor Lorry and War Food Funds
Important business was transacted at a combined general meeting of the Maitland and District Patriotic Fund and the Mayoress' Patriotic Fund, held at the Town Hall…
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