Road Builders Hurry Somewhere in Australia
Scores of trucks, graders, steamrollers, bitumen-laying cans, and men are working at full capacity along an inland military road in an effort to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1943
1,006 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 51
Railways. Freights and Fares Should Be Reduced, Says Country Party Leader
Following his recent claim that the big profit now being made by the railways should be used to reduce freights and the fares, the Leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Social. Railway Cricket Club Dance
A most enjoyable evening was spent by the 300 dancers who crowded into the School of Arts hall on Saturday evening last, when the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Minister’s View of Train Travel
SYDNEY Wed.— Replying to a question in the Legislative Assembly, the Minister for Transport, Mr. O’Sullivan, said he did…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train Driver Saves Airmen and Plane V.a.o.c. Co-operates
How the engine-driver of a train in Western Australia co-operated with the Volunteer Air Observers Corps in assisting two airmen when their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record Year For Railways
SYDNEY Wed.—The Railway commissioner, Mr. Hartigan, in his annual report for the year ended June 30 last shows that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Breaches At Kurd Kurri
KURRI Wednesday.— Thomas W. H. Shakespeare, of Main Road, Neath, pleaded guilty at Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thieving From the Railways Sentence Suspended
Detective Dallas told Mr. P. H. Brooke, P.M., in the Grafton Court on Monday, that most thieving from the railways was committed by…
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MASTERY OF MALARIA. I visited a pat lent recently suffering from malaria, a soldier, need less to say. Thinking over his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cause of U.s. Train Disaster Broken Journal on a Coach
The U.S. Commerce Commission's report says that a broken journal on one coach caused the wreck of the Pennsylvania Congressional Express…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Electrification of Railways
A communication was received by the Kearsley Council from East Maitland Municipal Council, asking for support in advocating the electrification of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record Year For Railways
The Railway Commissioner, Mr. Hartigan, in his annual report for the year ended June 30 last shows that the year's operations were the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quarterly Motor Registrations
SYDNEY Friday —Car owners who have bad their vehicle up on blocks and who contemplate putting it on the road again, are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welfare Section of The Railways
In the annual report of the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, to which reference has already been made in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Figures for September
Total revenue from Singleton railway station during September was £10,268, it was reported to-day. Tickets issued were 4419, from which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stabbing of Tram Conductor American Soldier Arrested
An American soldier, against whom a charge of maliciously wounding was later preferred, was arrested in a house at Eastlakes early to-day by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russians Capture Railway Junction Germans taken by Surprise
The Russians have taken the Germans completely by surprise in a sector which throughout the summer remained quiet, viz., south-west from Veliki Luki. After fierce fighting the Russians have smashed through the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Designer of Sydney Harbour Bridge
LONDON Oct 8.— The solicitors of Ralf Freeman senior partner of Freeman and Fox consulting engineers have is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Driver of Electric Train Killed Dash Through Underground Station
Passengers in an electric train became alarmed this morning when it dashed through the Town Hall underground station and then pulled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vital Cross Italy Road All-out Battle Has Developed
Following the capture of Pontelindolso, the Fifth Army is holding a line extending from there to the Volturno River northwards, and is now facing an army of 80,000, which General Kesselring has massed to meet the…
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