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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1951

1,060 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 53

Bridge Sabotaged Four Spans of Canadian Structure Collapsed QUEBEC

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 1

The Premier, Mr. Maurice Duplessis, told the Quebec Provincial legislature last night he believed that sabotage by subversive elements caused the collapse early yesterday of four spans of the big Duplessis Bridge of Three Rivers…

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Twelve Millions From Petrol Tax How The Commonwealth Aids Road Grant Works

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 2

Lower Hunter Shire Council has received from the Local Government Association details of this year’s Commonwealth Aids Roads grants for road works. An amount of sixpence per gallon, from the tax on…

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U.k. Train Cuts

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 1

The latest moves in Britain's fuel crisis include "drastic" cuts in train services, to operate within the next fortnight. The…

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Obituary Late Mr. A. BRIDGE

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 1

Mr. Amos Bridge, of Millfield, passed away on December 8. The late Mr. Bridge, who was…

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Increase in Motor Traffic Offences N.R.M.A. Official Puzzled With Courts’ Decision

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 4

A report issued by Mr. A. A. Shosbridge, Commissioner for Road Transport, shows that convictions for traffic offences in 1950 increased by more than 25 cent over the total of 1949…

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Train Service to Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 2

The regular railway passenger [?]table service between Newcastle and Cessnock will operate from Monday, with a few…

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Car Hits Train SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 2

When a car fun off the road at Cobar it hit a train end the driven, Harold Martin [?] suffered concussion. He was admitted…

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Collision With Bridge Brought £2/10/ Fine

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 2

Mr. M. J. McAnley, s. M. who is relleving for Mr. F. R. Wood, S. M. in Maitland court this morning fined a motorist £2/10/ with…

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Big Improvements of Showground Roads in First-Class Order

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 1

During the last 12 months) a good deal of work has been carried out in improvements to the local…

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Railway Duplication Muswellbrook

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 2

The contractors, These Bros Pty, Ltd. have commenced the construction of the earthworks at one of the dual stages of the…

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Train Smash Kills 20 New York

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 1

About one hundred casuistries, including 20 killed, were reported after a speeding passenger train was derailed near Woodbridge…

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20 Dead in U.s. Train Crash

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wed.—About 100 casualties, including at least 20 killed, were reported after a passenger train was derailed…

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Heavy Death Roll In Train Disaster New York

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 3

Sixty-one persons are known to have been killed and hundreds of others Injured when a speeding passenger train was derailed near…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 2

When he fell off his motor cycle at Wiragulla last Saturday night, Mr. Jack Butler, Mary Street, suffered head Injuries, and was conveyed by…

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Hints for Motorists

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 3

NRMA engineers state that continuous trouble with distributor points may frequently be traced to a loose contact at the…

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Train Delayed Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 1

Derailment of an empty electric train near Flemington sheds the morning delayed peak-hour services for several hours…

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Ceylon Naval Ratings Train with the Royal Navy

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 4

A detachment of naval ratings of the Ceylon Navy arrived in Britain recently to undergo intensive training course with the Royal Navy The ratings are at present based on H.M.S. "Pembroke" at Chatham…

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Train Smash Death Roll Mounting Passengers Trapped Is Overturned Carriages (Australian Associated Press) New York

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 2

The death roll in the railway disaster at Woodbridge, New Jenny, has now reached 81, and more than 500 have been injured. It it believed that there are at least six bodies still in the wreckage…

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Railway Staff Changes

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 2

Miss J. Smith who has been booking clerk at Maitland railway station for the past eight years. has been transferred to…

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Big Lost On State Railways SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 2

Despite increased fares, and freight charges, NSW railways showed en overall loss of £2,404,505 during 1949-50…

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