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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1945

1,046 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 53

Trouble at "Sun" Newspaper Office Motor Drivers on Strike

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 2

Motor drivers employed by the "Sun" newspaper went on strike this morning, after demanding a 40-hour week and four weeks annual leave…

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Status Of Ex-Servicemen In N. S. Wales Railways

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 March 1945 · page 4

The Secretary for Railways writes: In a Special Federal Court recently the Commissioner for Railways was fined on two charges…

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Late Mrs. Enid B. Bridge

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 1

The late Mrs. Enid Bridget Bridge, whose sad passing at the Scott Memorial Hospital, Seme, on 1st inst., reference was made…

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Train Smash at Clarendon 18 Civilians and 25 R.a.a.f. Personnel Injured

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 4

Eighteen civilians and about 25 R.A.A.F. personnel were injured when a Sydney bound train crashed head-on into a…

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American 1st Army in centre of cologne. Montcomery Preparing to Bridge the Rhine. Dresden Completely Wiped Out

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 3

American troops have reached the centre of Cologne. The Germans are only showing patchy resistance. There are on bridges over the Rhine from…

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EX-SERVICEMEN. Status in N.S. Wales Railways

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 4

The Secretary for Railways writes: "In a Special Federal Court recently the Commissioner for Railways was fined on two charges involving the…

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Crushed By Motor Truck

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 3

Whilst loading clay at Field send’s clay pits, “East Maitland, this morning, Henry, Lawson. 21, of George St, East Maitland,…

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Express Roads for Motors Amending Main Roads Act

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 4

The Minister for Transport, Mr. O’Sullivan, said in the Legislative, Assembly that the bill amending the Main Roads Act…

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The Accident That Wasn't (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 4

Police officers see many unique things that are not recorded in their note books. Perhaps it is a pity that some of the things they…

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Electricity Costs Council to Meet Railway Chief

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 3

It have not yet bun possible to [?] arrangement, but endeavour were being made to have delegates meet Mr. Myers…

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Overcharged on Motor Car Man Fined £100

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 2

Wallace Taylor, of Ashfield, was fined £100 at the Special Federal Court to-day for overcharging £138 on a motor car sold to a soldier…

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Drowned When Bridge Fell

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 1

LONDON March 8.—Hundreds of residents of Cologne, [?]eeing from the city in the last dramatic hours before it fell, were…

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Six Trapped in Van Caught On Flooded Bridge

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 1

BRISBANE Thurs.—Six persons are believed to have been drowned when trapped in the guard’s van on a bridge over the…

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Safe Riders for Safe Bikes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of of New South Vales)

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 3

Young pedal cyclists are again pushing their way into the road casualty lists in ways that are easily ayordable. For intance, in the last three weeks one boy…

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Railway Revenue

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 3

SINGLETON Thurs.—The number of tickets issued at the Singleton railway station during February was 2474 and the…

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Motor Cyclist Fined

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 March 1945 · page 3

At the East Maitland Court today, before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., Oliver William Lynch, of Ingall-st., Mayfield, pleaded guilty to…

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The Accident That Wasn't (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 4

Police officers see many unique things that are not recorded in their note books. Perhaps it is a pity that some of the things they see are not…

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Railway Gauges

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

A few years ago the unification of railway gauges in Australia was brought prominently before the public eye, the Governments of the day, and…

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Status of Ex-servicemen in N.s.w. Railways

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1945 · page 1

The Secretary for Railways writes: In a Special Federal Court recently the Commissioner for Railways was fined on two charges involving the…

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Tamworth Passenger Train

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 March 1945 · page 2

Since the announcement was made that the Tamworth passenger train had been restored to practically its original time-table, it has been…

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