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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1931

1,933 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 26 of 97

Main Roads Maintenance Programme Tarro Works

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 4

Mr. W. R. Lindsay, engineer to Tarre shire council, at a meeting of council to-day, recommended that the expenditure on the main road for…

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PINNED Pitiful Scenes Train Smash London, March 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 1

The actual death roll in the Royal Scot derailment is six, with ten in hospital. Many heartrending scenes were…

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Paris-Bordeaux Train Smash. Eight Killed; Forty Injured. Many Missing. Paris

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 4

Many passengers on the Paris-Bordeaux express perceived an ill-omen in the death, owing to heart failure, aboard the train prior to yesterday's…

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Abandoned Baby. Found in Motor Car. Surprise Fob Local Residents

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 1

Muswellbrook has had its first experience of finding an abandoned baby. When the heavens were shedding…

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Girls in Motor Car When Man Was Killed Extraordinary Story Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 5

A broken beer bottle, broken windscreen glass, and half a dozen photographs were the chief exhibits at a Newcastle inquest to-day. Early in the morning of January 27, a motor car, driven by…

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Strong Protest Coalfields 'Bus Service Railway Action Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 5

A strong protest against the attitude of the Railway Commissioners towards the bus service between Cessnock and Newcastle was mode…

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Newcastle Motor Service

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 2

The Proprietor of the Newcastle Motor Service had bad luck with his Packard on Friday and Saturday, suffering two break-downs. In order to…

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Tram Smash. Serious Injuries. Five in Hospital. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 3

In a collision between two trains in Elizabeth-street, Sydney, on Saturday night between 30 and 40 people were injured. Five were later taken to…

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Coalfield's 'Bus Services Railway Commissioners' Attitude Disapproved Decisions of Cessnock Conference

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 3

Kearsley Shire and Cessnock Municipal Councils met in conference last night to discuss the attitude of the Railway Commissioners towards the…

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War Bridge Evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 4

There was an excellent attendance at the war bridge party hold in the west maitland infants' schoolroom. when an enjoyable evening was…

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Harbour Bridge a Striking Model

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 4

How many tons of point would It take to give the sydney Harbour Bridge three coats The answer Is, no less than 600 tons,…

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Aerodrome Site Question of Dedication

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 5

"Seeing that we are going to meet Mr. Baddeley on a deputation this week-end, I move that we invite a representative of the Aero Club and…

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War Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 4

One of the most successful war bridge parties yet hold in West Maitland was that conducted in the School of Arts last night for the…

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Amateur Cycling To-morrow's Road Race

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 5

The Cessnock Amateur Cycling Club Will hold a 4-mile road race to- morrow (Saturday) afternoon. This event will start from the West…

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Train Smash Inquiry Evidence Signals Ignored London, March 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 1

Giving evidence at the Royal Scot inquiry disaster, the driver of a slow train, which had halted at Leighton Buzzard, said the…

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Cessnock Council £10,000 for Sewerage Mt. View Road Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 5

At a meeting of cessnock Municipal Council last evening, the Mayor) Aid, J shakespeare) advised that as a result of a grant…

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Work for 25 MEN Repairs to Mount View Road Relief Grant of £1000

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 7

As a result of representations made to the Minister for Mines and Labor and Industry (Mr. J. M. Baddeley), the sum of £1000 has been made…

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Tram Smash Many Injured One Car Damaged Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 1

Two trams crowded with passengers collided on Oxford—street, paddington, this morning. A number of people were injured…

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Stole Fencing From Railway NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 5

A dismanfled fence on the waratab railway attracted the attention of Benjamin Jonkins of that suburb, and he took part of the material…

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Farmer Fined Drove Past Tram NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 5

A fine of 16 with 19/ costs or a month was imposed on Michael corbert, of Miller's Ferest in Newcastle police court to-day for driving past…

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