Holiday-makers Held Up on Train Flood-waters and Washaways
Flood-waters and washaways between Parkes and Condobolin delayed a train with 400 holiday-makers returning to Broken Hill from…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
1,832 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 92
End of Road Nearer (A.A.P. Service) LONDON
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Forces Hammer Tobruk Main Aerodrome Abandoned Enemy Has Lost 500 Planes in Desert Campaign (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, Tuesday Night
British troops are reported to have made contact with the outskirts of Tobruk and are hammering the defences. The Italians have abandoned the main aerodrome for Tobruk at El Adem, where the British troops captured 40 planes, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fall of Tobruk Considered Tm Be Imminent Speedy British Advance Forty Planes Captured On Main Aerodrome HEAVY R.A.F. Bombings (A.a.p. Service)LONDON, Jan. 7
The Italians in Tobruk have abandoned the main aerodrome of Tobruk at EI Adem, where the British troops to-day captured 40 planes, which had been left unserviceable as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AT 64 MILES Motorist Disqualified NEWCASTLE
When Harold Cecil Gilden of may field pleaded [?], in the Summons Court to-day, to having driven a motor cycle at a speed dangerous to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day’s Leaders: Hitler’s Move: A Uniform Railway Gauge Roster Dispute Commonwealth Steel Works Matter in Court Sydney
The strike at the Commonwealth Steel Works at Newcastle occupied the attention of Judge [?]Mara in the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New System Applicants for Motor Licences Forty Questions Sydney
The Commissioner of Road Transport, Mr. C. N. Neale, explained to-day the system of oral examination of applicants for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Railway Trespassers
Ronald Adame, 24 and Robert Jackson [?] two Strangers, were fined 10/ each at the west Maitland Police Court this morning for having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Traffic Over One Million Passengers Trams and Buses Newcastle
Trams and [?] of the Newcastle Transport Department carried [?] passengers for 11 days of the Christmas and New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Express Trains Delayed WasKawaye On Railways People Stranded Sydney
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed on the Railway
Alan James Patterson, aged 35, was killed instantly, and James Henry Hedger escaped injury when a railway tricycle on which they were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hexham Bridge
At the Shire Council meeting on Friday, Cr. Meredith refered to the Hexham Bridge and asked if there was anymore about it. The talk about roads…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rough Road Capsize of Lorry With 20 Men WINGHAM
While the Wingham municipal lorry was conveying 20 men to work on the new electricity line now under construction, the lorry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sharp Rise in the Hunter River Highest Level For Years Dalwood Bridge Washed Away
The Hunter River a West Maitland rose quickly Iast night and reached a Higher level than on any other occasion for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Struck by Motor Car Newcastle
Struck by a motor car while crossing [?] road at the corner of ingail and George streets, Mayfield, last night Clarence Horney, 27, or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Motorists’ Corner Official R.A.C.A. Notes
Well, to the intense surprise of everybody including [?] self, I am back in comparative civilisation, more or less intact…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railways Summer Timetable
Following is the summer timetable as it applies to west Maitland:— TO NEWCASTLE.—Week Days 4.15 a.m. (Monday excepted, change…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Joy Riding Motor Car Damaged
A motor car owned by Mr. D. McDonald. of Lorn, was taken from High-at last night and abandoned shortly afterwards when it was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Recruiting Train
The R.A.A.F. recruiting train is to bo at Taree from January 16 to 18…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fell From Train
We are inclined to think that Gunner John J. Flood believes that there is such a thing as luck after his fall from a fast-moving train and…
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