Local and General. Railway Line Duplication
It has been learned that work will commence on the duplication of the railway line between Branxton and Muawellbrook, in about six weeks'…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Exhibition of Motorways Models
Mr. Alfred Barnes, the [?] Transport, recently opened an exhibition of motorways models in London. Mr. Alfred Barnes explains a model of y road round about to Mr. T. G. Richards, engineer, and Major H. E. Aldington, Minister. of…
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"We must all eventually travel over the read to the cemetery, and I would be pleased to see it repaired in the near future," said…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A report prepared by the combined Railways, Tramways and Road Transport Union’s committee, criticising recent…
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With the construction of the low-level bridge at Melville Ford well under way, residents of the area are seeking to have the approaches of…
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MUSWELLBROOK: Owing to the restrictions imposed on the carriage of certain types of goods on the railways, beer supplies are…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—After he had been run over by a coal train in Bruce-street. Cook’s Hill, to-day, an 11-year-old boy got up and ran to…
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The lives of millions of people all over the world have been influenced by the life and work of a Northum-berland pit-boy, George Stephenson,…
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MELBOURNE, Tues. — The chairman of the Melbourne Tramways Board, Mr. H. H- Bell, stated that silent type American…
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The chairman of the Maitland District Methodist Synod (Rev. R. Grayson) has applied tor special permission to travel on a…
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MUSWELLBROOK.—The duplication of the railway line from Branxton to Muswellbrook was mentioned at the last meeting of…
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A motor mechanic was trapped in a blazing truck and burned to death near East Gresford yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — A three-year-old boy was fatally injured when he was struck by a buffer of the Moree Mail late yesterday…
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Mr. R.. B. Nott, M.L.A., has received a letter in the following terms from the Minister for Local Government:— "I refer to an application by…
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"There are enough Joint Coal Board officials getting around this district to wear out any of the shire roads," Cr. A. C. Marshall stated' at yesterday's meeting of Patrick Plain Shire Council…
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A compulsory conference was called by Mr. Murray Stewart in Sydney to-day to consider a demand by railway workers at Port Waratah…
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The first of ten new diesel two-car rail motors began running on the Dubbo-Coonamble line on Tuesday…
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ARMIDALE.—Leonard Shaw, about 20, of Hunter-St., Bankstown, was killed when a bus chassis he was driving ran off…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday — When a motor cycle and a truck collided on the Pacific Highway, near Belmont, the cyclist was…
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General secretary of the National Roads Motorists' Association (Mr. H. E. Richards) said he expected the State…
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