Limeburner's Creek Road
For many years efforts have been made to induce the Main Roads Board to declare the Clarence Town-Limeburner's Creek road a main road and…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Skeleton Train Service
Two trains will leave East Maitland railway station later to-day for Newcastle. Departing times are 5.20 and 6.12: Neither,…
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SYDNEY: Mervyn Thomas Steven. Cavanaugh, of Noller-parade, Parramatta, was decapitated when he was struck by an…
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NEWCASTLE: All trams in the district would cease running from about 2 p.m. Saturday till early Monday morning, the…
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Water rushing across High-st. opposite the sports ground has torn a great hole in the roadway. The roadway has disappeared…
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Four Queensland motorists in a Pontiac car, travelling from Sydney to Brisbane, after, being held up at Branxton for two night, decided that…
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About the time the bridge over the Cockfighter Creek at Warkworth was washed away in the recent flood, three people lay seriously ill in the village. One was an infant suffering from pneumonia,…
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Sir,-The disorganisation caused by the blockage of the main lines at Maitland through flooding would have been minimised had the rail…
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The break in rail communications between Muswellbrook and Sydney has been overcome by the substitution of motor services by Messrs Reg…
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A high railway official said early this morning that it was hoped to get trains through Maitland either to-morrow night…
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Brisbane mail will be going to Brisbane on Monday and Fridays, departs 6.14 p.m. Brisbane Mail to Sydney,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Trains on the western line between Sydney and Blackheath, were held up for more than three hours to-day…
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What is probably the heaviest land transported load ever to pass through Singleton was stacked oboard an 18-wheeled…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Gap announced that restricted rail services would be restored…
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Miners prevented the transport of coal by road from the mines to the railhead at Awaba immediately the general strike began at midnight last night. About 10,000 tons of gas and power coal on the northern fields will now…
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Sir, — The disorganisation caused by the blockage of the main lines at Maitland through flooding would have been…
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Information received at Werris Creek yesterday afternoon forecast the folowing Northern and North - Western…
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CESSNOCK: Tal Jenkins, 50, Blacks-rd., Paxton, suffered an injury to his right elbow last night when a truck he was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. —The first train from Brisbane in more than a week arrived in Sydney to-day, but there were fewer than 100…
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LITHGOW: Arthur Lennox, 63, engine driver, had one leg severed above the ankle and received head injuries and shock when he fell out…
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