Killed by Train
SYDNEY: A man who fell to the railway line at Petersham was chopped to pieces by a steam train travelling from Newcastle…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
1,254 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 63
Merging of the British Railways
LONDON, Jan. 1.— Without ceremony or change in routine of 600,000 employees, the four main railway companies and 54 other…
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NEWCASTLE, Thurs—Dennis Menzles, 24,of Hall-street, Maryvillie, and Mildred Geary, 20 of Moorahead-street Lambton, were…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The toll of the road continued yesterday when three people were killed and four injures m motor accidents. The…
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NEWCASTLE. Thursday. — When his motor cycle got out of control and went over a 10ft embankment, on the Wallsend…
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A man who fell to the railway line it Petersham on Wednesday was chopped to pieces by a steam train travelling from Newcastle…
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ONE of the really gratifying aspects of die holiday season now closing has been the absence of road fatalities…
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SYDNEY Friday,—While sleeping between her parents at their home at Moorebank last night Maureen Pay G[?] one month-old was…
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At least 12, and possibly 16, holiday passengers were killed and many injured when a train rammed the rear of another near Otterville, Missouri, yesterday. Trains were two sections of the Missouri Pacific Lines…
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Britain's first International Motor Show for 10 years has now been arranged to take place at Earl's Court, London, and it is…
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LONDON, Jan. 3.—The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders announced that November car exports reached a record…
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ATHENS, January 3.—The Greek Government has announced that rebel forces, in short raids, set fire to a railway station in Kilkis, 30 miles north-east of Salonika. The rebels blew up a goods train…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday. — A nurse, who finished her training yesterday and was returning home for a holiday, was injured…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Melbourne’s public. without trams, struggled to work to-day in steady rain, and thousands arrived at their…
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Melbourne public, without trams, struggled to work today in steady rain, and thousands arrived at their…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coff’s Harbour was left without taxi transport when the town’s four taxi proprietors put their taxis…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— Melbourne is still without trams and tramway bus services…
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NEWCASTLE: Mr. Albert E. Davies, a former District Superintendent of Tramways in Newcastle, died at his home in…
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The Ministry for Local Government (Mr. Cabill) informed Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day that he could not reconsider…
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WOLLONGONG, Wed.—At an Inquest Into the deaths of two men at Oak Flats level crossing on December 16, a junior railway…
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