40 Die When Train Crashes
LAGOS (Nigeria): Forty people were killed and several injured in a railway passenger train crash on…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1952
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Bridge at Payne's Crossing Plans For Reconstruction
Kearsley Shire Councl decided at its last meeting to engage a consulting engineer to draw up specifications…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Road Suggested By Cessnock Council From Mt. View to Pokolbin
If a road were constructed from the Mount View School along the ridge to Pokolbin, visitors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drive for Increased Business Commissioner's Appeal To Railwaymen
The Commissioner for Railways, Mr. R. Winsor, in his drive to increase business for the N.S.W. Government…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Staff Sackings "Inhuman" Country Party Member Attacks State Government
The sacking's of hundreds of railway employees by the State Government was severely criticised in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Conference Of Bush Fire Brigades Address by Chairman of Bush Fire Committee Complaints Regarding Danger from Railway MERRIWA
Mr. K. Shannon said at the Bush Fire Brigades conference on Thursday that "what the Railway Department does…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hexham Bridge
The last span of Hexham Bridge has been placed in position and the bridge will be open for traffic in November…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Northern Railway Line Duplication Works Stop
The £1,500,000 rail duplication project between Singleton and Muswellbrook will be abandoned at the end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Staff Sackings "Inhuman" Country Party Member Attacks State Government
The sacking of hundreds of railway employees by the State Government was severely criticised in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charge Against Train Crew
SINGLETON: The engine-driver, fireman and guard of a coal train were remanded until next Thursday’s court at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Overseas Motor Tourists
The N.R.M.A. has produced a special car windscreen sticker for its members proceeding overseas on a motor tour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Employees Charged With Theft
Two railway employees, charged with stealing a carton of beer and a quantity of lollies from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Korean Veterans To Train Conscripts
Korean war veterans in the First Battalion, the Royal Norfolk Regiment, will train young British conscript…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Houses Conference
A conference between the Railway Commissioners' representatives and Ald. G. S. Adams, representing the Muswellbrook…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorist’s Death Accidental
CESSNOCK: The Cessnock coroner (Mr. W. Frazer) yesterday found that Harold William Pinchen was accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge at Narrowgut
Flans are being prepared for a bridge to span the Hunter River at Narrowgut to provide access to three farms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Silting At Hillsborough Bridge
CESSNOCK: A proposal that the Hillsborough bridge scheme should be abandoned because of the cost and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Said Rosary, Then Killed By Train
SYDNEY: An elderly woman was killed by a train shortly after she was seen saying her rosary at Town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Board Offer For Road Repairs
Lower Hunter Shire Council will accept a Joint Coal Board offer of a contribution of half the cost of repairing a section…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Threat of Road Isolation Bridges Damaged North Of Singleton
SINGLETON: A second bridge is expected to collapse unless the Camberwell Bridge, nine miles north of Singleton, is repaired within a matter of hours…
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