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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1944

965 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 49

New Railway Timetable

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 2

From Sunday last, May 28, the winter timetable of the N.S.W. Railways came into operation. A number of alterations have been made in…

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Plane Motor Best Yet

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK May 29—General Motors (Allison division, at Indianapolis announced that the most powerful aircraft engine in…

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Motor Car Missing

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 3

Mr. S. Tinson, of West Maitland, has reported to the West Maitland police that his motor car has been missing from High-st. since…

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Solicitor Killed By Train

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed. — Sergeant David Perry Cruttenden, 30, a solicitor, and now a member of the AMF, who was criticaly…

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Complaint of Road Conditions

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Wed.—The department of Road Transport advised Kearsley Shire Council last night that bus proprietors…

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Road Work in Kearsley Shire

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 1

CESSNOCK Wed.— The engineer (Mr. L. Grattan) reported to Kearsley Shire Council last night that wet weather had…

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Pilfering on The Railway

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY Wednesday.— Pilferer have stolen more than £100,000 from railway trucks in New South Wales during the past 12…

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Pilfering From Railway Trucks

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 3

Pilferers have stolen more than £100,000 from railway trucks in New South Wales during the past 12 months, according to transport…

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Sequel To Road Fatalities

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY Thursday — Detectives investigating the road fatality near St. Marys on Tuesday night, in which a man and…

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Child Victims of Road Toll

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY Thursday—The Commissioner of Road Transport (Mr. Neale) revecied that there were [?] road accidents in New…

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Bridge for School Children

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 4

Weston Parents and Citizens' Association have written to Kearsley Council, asking that a bridge be placed across the creek at Sixth Street…

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Cessnock-branxton Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 4

The Kearsley Shire Engineer submitted, at the Council meeting lust Tuesday night, an estimate of £2,194 for the construction of the unfinished section…

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Solicitor Killed by Train

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 3

Sergeant David P. Cruttenden, 30, who was a Sydney solicitor before he joined the Army nearly three years ago, was fatally injured when he fell…

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Spikes and Nails on Roads

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 5

The Department of Roads Transport advised Kearsley Council, at its meeting last Tuesday [?], that bus proprietors running to Hebburn No. 2…

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Youth Killed By Mail Train

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY Friday.—Struck [?] the Dubbo mail John McCart[?] of Strathfield, was killed [?] night at Lidcombe station on [?]…

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Pilferers' £100,000 Booty From Railways

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 2

Goods valued at more than £100,000 have, been stolen from railway trucks in N.S. Wales during the past 12 months, transport…

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NRMA Warning To Motorists

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY Friday—The NRMA has received reports from motorists of their loss, either by theft or misadventure, of tyres, tubes…

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Railway Yards Bombed

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1944 · page 1

LONDON June 2.—A fleet of 500 to 750 heavy bombers, with escorting fighters, yesterday attacked Transylvanian railway…

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Death of Tram Conductor

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY Sat.—Ernest Parkinson, of Albion-street, Waverley, train conductor, who was swept off the footboard of his tram by a…

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Feet Severed By Train

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 June 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. —Private Thomas Corbet, of High street. Seaholme, had both feet cut off when struck by a train…

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