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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1952

1,139 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 43 of 57

To-day's Sydney News Hold-up on Waterfront—big Coal Bank-up at Newcastle—woman Throws Herself Under an Electric Train Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 30 September 1952 · page 2

A nation-wide illegal stoppage by waterside workers paralysed shipping at all Australian ports to-day. The wharflabourers are…

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Karoola Homes One in Five for Railway Men

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 30 September 1952 · page 1

It is understood that the Housing Commission has arranged to complete the prefabricated homes on Karoola,…

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Road Safety Lectures

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 2

Police have made provision to cater for a big attendance at the road safety addresses and films’…

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Funeral Of Train Victims

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Scores of people to-day attended the funeral of Adrian Barnes (5) and his [?] Rosemary (7), of…

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Barrington Tops Road Closed

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 1

The only road trafficable from the Tomalla turn-off to Barrington Tops and Carey's Peak has been fenced…

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Inspection Made Of Site Of Bridge Protection Works

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 1

The Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission's engineer in charge of river bank protection, Mr. A. F. Reddoch, yesterday made an inspection of the site of…

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Record Loss On Sydney Tram Aid Bus Services

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY: Losses on Sydney’s tram and bus services last year were £3,020,293—an all-time high. This was revealed in the annual report of the…

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Fewer Deaths on the Road

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY : N.S.W road death totalled 151 in June July and August but were 40 less than in the correspondent…

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Proposal To Raise Road At Mindaribba AH-weather Route For Marketing Produce

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 October 1952 · page 4

The New South Wales Government will be asked to make c special grant to Lower Hunter Shire Council to construct an all-weather road from Paterson to Maitland through Mindaribba…

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Train Caught Fire In Tunnel

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK: The electric locomotive of a crowded Pennsylvania railway suburban train caught fire in a…

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Road Tax On Beer Containers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Minister for Transport (Mr. W. F. Sheahan) said in the Legislative Assembly that no special…

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Move For Dry Road to Paterson

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 3

A conference at Paterson on Wednesday afternoon decided to ask the Minister for Works (Mr. Renshaw) to…

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One Road Fatality Every 4½ Hours

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 5

One person was killed every four and a half hours in road accidents in Australia and one injured every 15 minutes, Senior Constable Pike said in Maitland last night…

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Proposed Passenger Train Cuts To Operate In November

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 1

Proposed cuts in the passenger train service between Maitland and Cessnock would probably not…

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Old Landmark Goes To Clear Visibility To Bridge Approach

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 4

An old Singleton landmark, the Morton Bay fig tree, at the corner of the Campbell Street approach to Dunolly bridge has been removed because it obscured the vision of…

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Well Known Belford Man Fatally Injured In Motor Accident

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 October 1952 · page 1

A well-known Belford man, Mr. Leo Peter Bedeich, was fatally injured, and his companion, Mr…

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Train Kills Children

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1952 · page 6

A brother and sister were killed instantly when struck by a train at Guildford railway station level-crossing on…

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Move for Dry Road to Paterson

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 4 October 1952 · page 8

A conference at Paterson on Wednesday afternoon decided to ask the Minister for Works (Mr. Renshaw) to…

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Discipline On The Roads

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 October 1952 · page 2

WHILE traffic department officials were furthering, at Maitland during the week-end, their admirable programme of education in safety precautions, metropolitan police intensified their…

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Another Road Death

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 October 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: New South Wales holiday week-end road foil rose to the when an identified man died in…

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