Crack Passenger Train's Crash Causes Big Casualty List
Casualties in the wreck of the crack Pennsylvannia passenger train "Red Arrow" now totals 21 dead and 117 injured…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Hinton Road Bridge-plans Submitted
The amended plans and specifications, together with estimates of cost, of Moran’s Farm Bridge, on the Morpeth-Hinton road, were…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—The President of the Shi[?] Association of NSW (Mr. T. H. Carter) said to-day that NSW councils…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—The State Premier (Mr. McGirr), lt is expected, will confer almost immediately with the State Cabinet…
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The Minister for Civil Aviation (Mr. Drakeford) informed Kearsley Council on.Tuesday night that the provision of a waiting.room lavatory…
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After many years discussion, a further step is to be taken to complete the missing link on the Waukivory-Bullahdelah road at the boundary of…
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An application was received by Lower Hunter Shire Council from Mr. S. Mead, Bolwarra, for the purchase and closing of…
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In a petition to Maitland City Council, 33 residents of Albert, John and Walter streets, Rutherford, asked that attention be…
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At the Kearsley Council meeting on Tuesday night a time-table was submitted by,Rover Motors for a…
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The Auditor General, Mr. E. H. Swift, Will; recommend a substantial increase in tram and bus fares la his final report on the metropolitan transport services…
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Sir.—The Council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce wrote to the Minister for Transport about a month. ago, and asked how far the work of…
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The commencement on Thursday afternoon of a new series of flag bridge afternoons conducted by members of the Maitland…
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SINGLETON, Saturday.—Great Greta Colliery wrote to the meeting of Patrick Plains Shire Council stating that, in…
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SYDNEY, Saturday.— 508 people were hilled and 8140 injured in road accidents in N.S.W. last year, said the Commissioner for…
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SYDNEY, Sat.—As a protest against footboard trams, all trams and buses in the metropolitan area will stop to-day at…
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The suggested increase in rail and tram fares will scarcely meet with the approval at the travelling public, and particularly those…
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At 12.30 this morning John James McMullin, 64, of the Matthew Talbot Hospice, Randwick, collapsed in a carriage on the…
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RANGOON, Feb. 23—Ten, per. cons were killed and ten Injured when a train, en route to Mandalay was derailed in the Yamehtin…
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Mr. W. E. Sparke, president of the Maitland Show Council, and Mr. S. Parish, of Wallalong, also a member of the council and…
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The Commissoner for Road Transport (Mr. Neale) announced that 508 people were killed and 8140 injured in road accidents in New South…
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