Landslide Near Hawkesbury Bridge 750 Tons of Rock Blasted Out
Because railway engineers believeed that a wall of rock weighing more than 75 tons was made unsafe by a landslide near the Hawkesbury River…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1941
1,832 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 30 of 92
Vision Blocked “Ostrich” Of The Road Risks in Rain
We laugh at the ostrich because be pokes his head in the sand when there is danger ahead. But how very like the ostrich is the man who pulls…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway Notes
Business at the local railway for the month of March showed an allround increase compared with that of the corresponding month of last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Excursions in May. Coinciding with School Holidays
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, has authorised a general series of excursion trains to coincide as nearly as possible with the…
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In addition to the excursion tickets issued every week-end for travel between any two stations wholly within the tourist area, there will be an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Graziers' Appreciation of Railways' Services
It is hard to please everybody as the railways find in their big job of transporting something like 180 million passengers and 17 million tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Surprise for a Tramp One for the Doctor
Many tramps in England stay on the road because they love the life, and some of them do not make a bad living. One specialised in trousers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Friendly Road
WHAT RUSSIANS THINK Three great English poets have during the last century been very much in the Russian public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shire Grant Bridge Reconstruction SINGLETON
A grant of £2000 is being made by the State Government to assist the Patrick plains Shire Council to reconstruct the Glendon bridge, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Dangers Risk Of Skidding
Greasy roads following heavy rain require more careful driving by motorists says the chief engineer of the N.R.M.A. (Mr. J. Fielder), who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Motoring World Hiring Rates Motor Trucks And, Cars for Military Use
The announcement by the Common wealth that it requires a considerable number of motor trucks, cars and motor cycles to carry out military…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rough Crossing Railway At Granville
[?]merous complaints have been received by the N.R.M.A. regarding the rough condition of the level railway crossings to Woodville road,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shire Council Owns Wharf But Has No Access To It Railway Land
Bolwarra Shire Council has been informed that it in the probable owner of an old wharf at Paterson but the only access to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Struck Bridge Motor Cyclist Injured
Walter Farrugia, of Bishop's Bridge, was admitted to Maitland Hospital on Saturday night with extensive lacerations and contusions to the head and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Friendly Road
IS , IT CRICKET: It is quite obvious that the Germans know nothing of what we mean when we say, “It isn't cricket". They…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Wrecked by Train
A car, belonging to Mr Jack Jenkins, of Belmont Street, Merrylands, was stolen while its owner was at the Merrylands Cinema on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Killed by Fall From Train
Robert Coleman, 60, shearer, of Granville, Sydney, fell from a train and was killed within 600 yards of Baan Baa railway platform on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cycling
V. Duggan recorded his 66th win for the speedway season on Saturday night, when he beat L. Van Prang in two straight heats, in a match race,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Traffic Inefficient Brakes CESSNOCK
On a charge of having inefficient brakes, William E. G. Thomspson, of Yallomble-street, Cessnock, was fined 30/ with [?] costs, at the Cecsnock…
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