More Railway Facilities for Coalfields Excursion Fares
Commencing to-morrow (Saturday) the special 8.30 a.m. fast train from Cessnock to Newcastle, which will complete the journey in 93 minutes,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
1,325 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 67
News From Sydney. Railway Workers Unsettled Dead Woman Found in Car. Sydney
Although railwaymen have decided against a general strike, following the intervention of the Railway Commissioner, Mr. Hartigan, to meet their…
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Although railwaymen have decided against a general strike following the intervention of the Railway Commissioner (Mr…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Absenteeism bad grown to alarming proportions, said the Railway Commissioner (Mr. T. J. Hartigan), who, in a statement last night after settlement of the shunters’ strike, declared that, in future, employees who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leaders: The Clothes Shortage At Long Last Civilian Rioting at Bombay Police Repeatedly Fire Into Crowds Howling Mobs Hold Up: Set To Trams and Buses (Australian Associated Press)
BOMBAY, February 22.—Civilian rioting, in sympathy with the Royal Indian Navy mutiny, spread last night through a wide are of Bombay. Police repeatedly fired revolvers into crowds in Indian…
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The Secretary for Railways, Mr. S. Nicholas, has informed Mr. A. Howarth, MLA, in reply to his personal representations…
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SYDNEY Saturday.—Sick, pay to members of the railway wages staff last year was £150,000 the Commissioner for Hallways (Mr…
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A motor cycle owned by Mr K. R. Kennedy, of Ada-st. Homeville, was stolen from Elgin-st, near the Savoy Theatre last…
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LONDON Feb, 25.—Group Captain [?]…
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BRANXTON: What is claimed to be a record for railway men is the long service of Mr. William Lee who has been on the staff…
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Singleton and District Chamber of Commerce is again to take up the case to have "the Saturday evening train put back on the…
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Mr. R. H. Clarke, formerly of Morpeth, has commenced duties as leading porter at West Maitland railway station in place of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chamber of Commerce Pushing Water Conservation Claim That Work Should Be Preferential to Railway Unification
Realisation of the Government's declared scheme of water conservation in the Hunter Vall[?]y is to be urged by…
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MUSWELLBROOK—A letter from the Secretary for Railways to the Muswellbrook Council states that all train services would…
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“Everyone is interested in the fate of the old Hawkesbury Bridge,” said a railway official, discussing the impending…
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NEW YORK, Feb. 27.— The Stillwell Road in Burma, has been declared surplus property and abandoned to the wilderness…
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Sir.—I wish to draw attention to a grave danger to the public along the road between the Park and Fly Point at Nelson Bay. This road along the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merriwa and District News Proposal to Spend £10,000 New Road-making Plant. Merriwa Shire Council's Important Decision
Like most councils, the Merriwa Shire Council, owing to the war, finds itself with roads which have deteriorated considerably over the past six years, and with an inadequate road-making plant with which to effect repairs…
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SYDNEY Monday. — Perturbed at the growing menace to irreplaceable motor vehicle tyres caused by broken glass on…
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SYDNEY Monday.—A window in a train travelling last night from Newcastle to Sydney was shattered by a stone or bullet as…
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