Motor Cyclist Crashes
When he fell from his motor cycle at the bottom, of High-st. bridge shortly after midnight last night, Newcastle motor…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
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Air-Conditioned Train For North
At a conference of delegates from the North and North-West Federated Chambers of Commerce and local government…
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Ray Thompson rode an excellent race to win the Singleton Cycle Club's 28-miles race on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Change Sought In Venue Alleged Theft Of Electric Motors
When John Patrick Hoban, 36, made application to Judge Nield in the sessions at East Maitland to-day to have the venue of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Car and Cycle Collide
A motor cycle ridden by John Elgar, of William Street, collided with a car driven by Thomas Edwards, of…
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Muswellbrook District Motor Cycle Club will soon be starting a campaign to advertise the forthcoming ambulance carnival. The club is out to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railwayman Killed
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Stephen Scott, a fettler, of Albion-street, City, was killed when struck by an electric train on the Sydney…
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Dalwood bridge, which has been impassable since the June flood, except for a short period, is causing much inconvenience to…
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When he jumped from a train approaching East Greta station this morning, Maurice Shaw 20, of Attwater Avenue, Cessnock,…
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CESSNOCK, Wednesday Kearsley Shire Council was by Kurri Kurri Hospital [?] that the road from the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chamber Campaigns Against Motor Cyclists
Singleton and District Chamber of Commerce has complained to local and Newcastle police of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Repair at Ash Island
Lower Hunter Shire Council yesterday decided to repair the road at Ash Island with 400 cubic yards of gravel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railways Vital To Primary Industry
Sir Harold Clapp, Director-General of Rail Standardisation, said recently that Australia’s primary industries…
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After certain admissions had been made in the sessions at East Maitland yesterday, the trial of Joan Patrick Hoban, 35, former dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Estimates Cut Hits Sandy Hollow-maryvale Line Bruxner’s Question In Parliament
SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Sandy Hollow-Maryvale railway extension was to be considerably reduced in strength, the Minister for Transport (Mr. Sullivan) said in the Legislative Assembly to-day…
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The time has come," the settler said, "To talk of many things; In rates and roads we're…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mysterious Subsidence at Overhead Bridge Sets Problem For Engineers
A mysterious subsidence which occurs at the overhead bridge near digit Street railway station has created an engineering problem to which an answer has not yet been found…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Honey Moon Couple to Leave Cessnock by Train
History tells us that on Monday, October 24. 1904, the first honeymoon oouple left by train fro«i Cessnock. They got a big send-olT. The train had not been long running at that time. The couple were Mr. and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Claims for Air-Conditioned Train Minister's Reply to Mr. Booth
Because of limited seating capacity a new air-conditioned train had not been put on the Cessnock service, as had been hoped, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →First Wine Saloon In Cessnock Was in Wollombi Road
The potency of the wine sold by the late Mr. Patrick John O'Neill, who established the first wine saloon in Cessnock, was well known to many of…
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