Improvement to Colliery Road
The management of Richmond Main colliery had applied to Keareley Shire Council tp effect improvements to the rood leading from the colliery to the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1944
965 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 37 of 49
Insufficient Money for Roads Discussion By Shire Councillors General Matters at Yesterday's Meeting
Councillors of Patrick Plains Shire Council consider that part of the motor and petrol tax should be made available to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Merriwa Wool Held Up Shire Asks Permission to Transport by Road
At the meeting of the Merriwa Shire Council on Tuesday, Cr. Leith stated that owing to the lack of rail facilities for transporting the district wool clip,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Retirement of Railway Official
As mentioned in our last letter, Mr. Arthur Ginger commenced long service leave on 5th inst., prior to retirement from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Threat to Stop Trams and Buses
SYDNEY, Friday. — Another threat to stop Sydney trams and buses for a day has been made by tramway employees, who are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor and Petrol Tax
SINGLETON, Friday. — The Patrick Plains Shire Council yesterday decided to ask the Shires’ Association to circularise…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Department Surplus of £754,054 for Year
The Railway Department surplus for the year ended June 30 was £754,054 after provision for maintenance, interest and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Leap From Bridge
Two girls and a boy had to jump 18 feet from a railway bridge to the ground to escape being run down by a train near Eltham (Vic.) yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Same Sad Story (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
The reports on road accidents to children in New South Wales during the last few months contain few fresh features. it is the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trams To Stop For Day In Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Mon.—By 222 votes to 147, a meeting of tramway way men decided on an all-day stopwork meeting on Saturday to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Collision Driver Fined For Not Stopping
Henry Fenwick, of Northcotestreet, Kurri Kurri, pleaded not guilty at West Haitians court today to having failed to stop his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blast Enemy Railroad Bridge
Smoke rises from the Nervesa Railroad Bridge over the Piave River, In north-eastern Italy, after the bridge was attacked by heavy bombers of the U.S. Army 15th Air Force…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drastic Cuts In Train Services
SYDNEY, Tues—Drastic [?] have been made in the holiday railway services for the Six-Hour week-end, next Friday to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wootton Tram Line
The railway line which carried loads of logs for just on thirty years from timber forests on the northern side of Wootton to Myers' Flat, a distance [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Modernising the Railways
CANBERRA Tues.—The Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward) believes that in order to ensure greater efficiency all transport…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Scalers Fined
NEWCASTLE, Wed—For travelling In a train from Waratah Deepwater without paying her fair Esmie Glennie, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Italian Jumped From Train
Danti Severi, 25, an Italian prisoner of war. jumped from the Glen mies mail between Singleton and Whittingham early…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sub-way on Bridge Wanted Chamber of Commerce Move
Mr. T. J. Hartigan, Commissioner of the N.S.W. Railways, will be asked, on the occasion of his visit to Singleton next week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Italian Prisoner Jumped From Speeding Train Arrest Effected by Singleton Police
While the Glen Innes mail was speeding between Singleton and Whittingham shortly after 4 a.m. yesterday, an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plan to Modernise Railways Report by Sir Harold Clapp
Modernising of Australia's railways is recommended in a report by Sir Harold Clapp to the Minister for Transport (Mr. Ward)…
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