Train Derailment. Mail Delayed
While travelling between Stroud Road and Dungog on Wednesday night, a fruit train ran over a cow straying on the line. Portion of the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1932
2,121 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 107
The Bridge. Who Designed It ?
There is" much controversy, with threats of costly litigation, as to who should be given the credit of designing the Sydney Harbour Bridge…
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The flood of oratory which will be loosed on March 19, when the Harbour Bridge will be opened, had its modest counterpart when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Purchase of Reserved Roads. Question of Fees. Councils Cannot Charge
At Friday's meeting of the Muswellbrook Shire Council, S. W. Tindale, of "Crambo," Bearami, wrote, asking for a refund of £2/2/- lodged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge Control Govt.'s New Scheme Transport Board Sydney
The State Transport Board, presided over by Mr. C. J. Goode, is to be the supreme authority in control of the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WA[?] Narrowly Missed Winning Bridge Lottery Tragic Change of Mind
A local syndicate which took three tickets, in the Harbour Bridge Lottery are now Borrowing deeply over the fact that they did not take…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NARD [?] Narrowly Missed Winning Bridge Lottery Word Tragic Change of Mind
A local syndicate which took three tickets in the Harbour Bridge Lottery are now sorrowing deeply Over the fact that they did not take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Returns. Big Slump
Receipts from all sources at the Muswellbrook Railway Station dropped from £70,718 to £36,507 in 1931…
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On the Pacific Highway, 15 miles south of Gosford, Ronald Frederick Chave, an officer of the Bank of Australasis, at Kempsey, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drove at Dangerous Speed Motor Cyclist Fined
Before Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland, P.M., at cessnock Police Court to-day Alexander Nellson Mitchell was charged With having driven a motor…
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Before Mr. F.D.H. Sutherland, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court today Alexander Neilson Mitchell was charged with having driven a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bridge Tests
Dr. Bradfield stated that tests of the Harbour Bridge had proved highly satisfactory, and that the engines would romain on the bridge until…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →E. Maul and Council More About Aerodrome Site Collecting Overdue Rates
The East Maitland Council w as informed at last night's meeting that Mr. Tully, Minister for Lands, is at present giving consideration to the draft of the bill to make available land, for the aerodrome, and hopes to introduce it in the forthcoming…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cost of Bridge and City Railway What Money Would Mean to the Country
Official figures reveal that it cost £43,000,000 to build the Sydney Harbour bridge, electrify the Sydney railways, and instal the Sydney…
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The periodical sales of property lost on the railways show that people are apt to forget many things, but few and far between are such cases as one that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrible Fall From Harbour Bridge Killed Instantly
When he fell more than 800 feet from one of the southern pylons of the Harbour, Bridge, yesterday afternoon, James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wages Claim Contractor Sued Bridge Work Cessnock
Claims totalling , £157/10/ were made against Thomas Stanley Brown, of Newcastle, at the Cessnock Industrial Magistrate's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tragic Fall From Bridge Rigger Falls 230 Feet
Crashing 230 feet from the upper chord of the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday, afternoon, James Campbell, 45, foreman rigger, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Harbour Bridge to Be Under Transport Board Control. Souvenir Tickets Fpr Opening
The Sydney Harbour Bridge and all the assets connected therewith are to be placed under the control of the State Transport Co-operative Board,…
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A motor car belonging to Edward Kilbon, of Leichhardt, which disappeared from Phillip Street, Sydney, last night, was found this morning…
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