London Train Smash
LONDON: This morning, more than 18 hours after the train disaster , two coaches feared full of dead…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1952
1,139 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 45 of 57
Death Roll in Train Crash May Be 125 Engines Carve Way Through Passengers
LONDON: Rescue workers cutting through the 40-foot high mound of wreckage age left by yesterday morning's triple train disaster near London reported last night that they had dug up 85 bodies with perhaps another 40 persons feared dead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Officer To Retire
Railway Department traffic he officer at Maitland for the past 26 years, Mr. John Don Eagleson, will retire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cycle Club Road Championships
With the club road championship only two weeks away, members are putting their finishing touches to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Road Deaths Position Frightening
SYDNEY: Commenting on the 12 road deaths over the six-hour week-end, Superintendent Lawrence, Acting Deputy Police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Deathroll Nears 100 LONDON
The deathroll in Britain's second biggest rail disaster in history is creeping towards the 100 mark as rescuers dig deeper into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge at Payne's Crossing Plans For Reconstruction
Kearsley Shire Council decided on Tuesday night to engage a consulting engineer to draw up plans…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Contractor Engaged For Bridge Work, Trust Told
At the meeting of the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust meeting at Dungog this week, Mr. R. A. Green said the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission was seeking plant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposed Bridge Footway at Weston in Next Year's Programme
Work should be carried out straight away on the construction of the proposed footway over the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ulan Coalfield and Cross Country Railway
A plea for the development of the Ulan coalfield and for the completion of the crossmade by Mr. F. G. Cooke,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cessnock Youth's Death Motor-cycle Struck Lorry
[?]en Wesley Yates, 19, of McFarlane Street o[?]ck, was killed on Tuesday night when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bridge Matters
Department of Main Roads authorised acceptance of tender of E. W. Milligan £2944/11/6 for erection of Schultz…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stroud Shire Suggest Timber Bridge Forster-Tuncurry
Stroud Shire Council decided to ask Main Roads Department whether, in view of the heavy cost of steel, it would be advisable to alter the design of the Forster - Tuncurry bridge to a timber bridge on concrete piles which would suit Council's financial position better and would serve its purpose just as well…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stroud Shire Road Works Completed Jobs In Prospect Engineer Submits Report
Stroud Shire Engineer (Mr. Marks) placed before Council a report of the work completed and tendered a list of other work that was to be attended to. He also made reference to the ferries at Karuah and at Hawk's Nest. He said that during the past…
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LONDON: An amended death roll hi last Wednesday’s train disaster at Harrow was officially set at 109 dead, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →108 Deaths in Train Smash
LONDON: The British Railways put the final death total in the Harrow rail disaster it 108…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Cut to Pieces by Train
SYDNEY: An unidentified man was cut to pieces by an electric train between Hurstville and Allawah to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letter To The Editor Railway Services
Sir.—Your editorial featured in last Thursday’s edition interested me. Alter reading it, I felt constrained to write…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motorist Drove Off With Child
SYDNEY: Police are searching Sydney for a motorist who disappeared to-day with an injured child…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed in Railway Yard
WINGHAM: Alan Clayton Moore, 61, was killed instantly this morning when struck by a truck being shunted in…
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