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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1935

2,592 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 130

TRAIN-RUNNING Making It Fool-proof

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 6

Extensive efforts are being made by Britain's four great railways to and methods of train control which will makes collisions impossible…

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Holiday Crowds Many Spend Day by Sea Railway Busy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 5

Railway holiday traffic on Northern lines to-day, due to the fine and hot weather conditions, was extra heavy, most people taking advantage of a…

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New Motor Compressed Air Fuel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 January 1935 · page 5

A motor suitable for [?] one vans as well as for lighter cars and other machinery purposes which requires no petrol oil or water is…

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Life Saved Suicide Attempt Harbour Bridge Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 5

As Mr. J. Paxton, of Redfern, was walking across the Harbour Bridge this morning he saw a man about to slide to his death from the…

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Man Killed Car Strikes Bridge Two Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 3

A man was killed and another man and a young woman were injured—the man seriously—when a motor car crashed into a bridge and fell 30 feet…

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Child Killed Motor Truck Overturns Through Fence Adelaide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 2

Rosemary Bennett, 4, of Myponga, was killed when a motor truck with ten occupants crashed through a fence and overturned at nettles Hill…

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Motor Racing Light Car Contest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 7

The Australian Light Car Club's 300 miles Centenary race on the Phillip Island course, Victoria, resulted: Murphy (M.G., P. Model), 4 hours…

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Wall of Water Struggle in Motor Lorry

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 2

Mr C. A. Howard and his son-inlaw, Len Palmer, both of Grafton, had remarkable escapes when a motor, lorry in which they were driv…

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Railway Traffic

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 January 1935 · page 2

The volume of railway traffic at Singleton station during the holiday period was the best experienced for some years at Christmastide. From…

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Maitland Road Smash

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 4

A smash occurred on the Newcastle Maitland road near Hexham, shortly before midnight last Sunday night. Police inquiries revealed that the car had been…

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New Rules Contract Bridge LONDON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 7

After a conference between the Portland and Now York Whist "Clubs in London in the spring important changes will be enforced in the inter…

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Fell From Train Woman Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 2

Foiling heavily from an electric train Miss Marjorle Elinor Forbes of Waterloo-road Chullora who is more than 80 years of ago was severely…

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Train Wrecked Obstacle on Line Children's Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 2

A prank played by thoughtless children caused the wreck of the main western goods train last evening near the Darling Harbour…

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Train Derailments Due to Defective Per. Way N.C. LINE Worst in State Water Blamed Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 1

It has been revealed that a defective permanent way was responsible for the derailment last Friday of the…

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Condition Critical Found on Railway Line NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 2

David Place lies in a serious [?] in the Newcastle Hospital. He was found lying between the rails at the Narara railway crossing on…

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Struck by Motor Cycle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 January 1935 · page 9

When he was knocked over and struck on the forch[?]d by the [?] of a motor cycle ridden by Charles Moore in Marsh-street Armidale James…

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Motor Accident. Aberdeen-road Smash

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 2

While returning to Aberdeen from Muswellbrook on Wednesday evening Thomas Lewis sustained injuries when the car he was driving yan over a…

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Well-patkonised Train—

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 4

The guaranted special train from Wen-is Creole and Merriwa to Newcastle on New Year's Day was well patronised, thirteen carriages being required to…

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Train Derailed. Permanent Way Damaged

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 8

Several thousand pounds worth of damage, was done when the main western line goods train was derailed on the Darling Harbour line shortly after…

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The Long Bridge Extensive Repairs Soon?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 January 1935 · page 5

With the arrival of a new foreman of works, who is expected next-week, it is anticipated that the reconstruction of the Long Hridge, which had…

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