Paper Train Late
Sydney newspapers were late in arriving at Maitland and the Coalfields this morning owing to the late arrival of the âpaperâ…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
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Holiday Road Dangers
SIDNEY, Friday.—A special warning to road-users that the Christmas-New Year period is generally the most dangerous…
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TOKIO, Dec. 19—Private Charles E. Denter, 18, of Salt Lake City, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and a dishonourable…
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STROUD, Sat.—Stroud Shire Council’s share of main road maintenance for the year 1947-48 is £9115, the engineer (Mr…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — When a tram and a semi-trailer truck collided at Caulfield to-day the tram driver, Edmund…
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Reporting to a meeting of Wallarobba Shire Council the engineer (Mr. J. F. Stewart) stated that work on a timber…
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FRANKFURT, Dec. 23— Thirty-seven persons are reported to have been killed, 98 seriously injured and 200…
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SINGLETON, Monday.—Hugh Clarence Paxton, single, 21, of 142 Morgan-street, Merewether, was killed instantly about n…
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The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. T. J. Hartigan, C.M.G., tows presented to the Minister for Transport his report on the…
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The monthly and final meeting of the Muswellbrook branch of the Australian Railways' Union for 1947 and held at the Trades Hall on Sunday last,…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday—Agitation for increased rates in N.S.W. was “verging on abuse,” said Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. Murray Stewart, in announcing higher rates of pay for members of the Australian Railways Union in N.S.W…
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Thirtyseven people were killed, 98 seriously injured, and 200 others hurt when two express trains collided near Neuwied,…
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Tottenham, a north London suburb, has re-opened recently a model traffic area to make the children of the borough…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A grim warning that unless road behaviour improved, deaths from road accidents this year were likely to exceed the 1946 total of 508 was issued last night by the Executive Vice-President of the State Road…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Private Bryant Williams, 18, was crushed between the roof of a carriage of the Melbourne Express last night and killed as the train passed under a bridge…
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NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. — One man was killed and another badly injured near Newcastle to-day, when the motor cycle on…
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Cr Sparke at the Port Stephens Shire Council meeting, on Friday 11th inst. referred to the damage done to roads by irrigation plants in places where the road was…
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MUSWELLBROOK.—The district Coroner (Mr. R. Clendening, JP), held an inquest into the death of Leslie William Rose,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Of nine people billed in N.S.W. on Christmas Eve and yesterday, only one death resulted from a road accident—the lowest road toll for this period since 1935 when statistics were first compiled…
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CORSICANA (Texas). Dec. 29— The crack express train Burlington Zephyr, travelling between Fort Worth and Houston, left the tracks…
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