£8,150 Tender for Weston Bridge Completion in Six Months
An immediate start will be made on the construction of a pedestrian bridge over the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1953
1,022 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 52
Doctors, Nurses Work By Hurricane Lamps In Railway Tunnel
LONDON: Grimy [?] Workers, almost dropping with fatigue, continued to battle throughout the night to cat free from a [?] underground tunnel the shattered coaches in which nine people died in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Cycle Racing
Many local motor cyclists journeyed to Bathurst to witness the N.S.W. Tourist Trophy races…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Driver Hit Coal Train
A motorist who collided with a coal train at a crossing on the New England Highway, Four Mile Creek, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Leg Severed by Train
On Saturday night, a married man of 32 Douglas Williams, of Thorxton was found on the railway line near the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Singleton's 1952 Road Record
A department of Motor Transport analysis of accidents prepared for the year ended December 31,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Allocation Of Funds For Shire Roads
GRESFORD: Mr. Allen Fairhall, Federal member for Paterson, with Cr. J. Carlton, president, and Mr. F. Alldis, clerk, of Wallarobba Shire Council, attended a meeting to discuss road problems in C riding of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reopening of Road to Sydney
SINGLETON: An additional road to Sydney may be re-opened toward the end of this year, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Cycle Skidded
A Beresfield youth, Victor Durne, 20 of Tennyson-street, guffered injuries to the [?] left foot, contusions and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trespassed on Railway
Two man, found in a railway brake-van at Telarah on April 10 were fined £5 each in Maitland court to-day for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Cyclist’s Licence Suspended
A motor cyclist, who had has [?] suspension of his licence was not [?] suited to hold a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Erosion Near Bridge
SINGLETON: Work has started on the construction of a second groyne in the Hunter River, near the Dunolly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Smash Deaths
LONDON: The deathroll in the crash of two London trains in a tunnel near Stratford last Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Congress Train From Muswellbrook
A special train leaving Muswellbrook at 6.25 a.m. on Sunday next, will carry passengers to Sydney for the concluding…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Staff Chief Sees CMF Troops Train
SINGLETON: The Chief of the General Staff (Lieut-General Rowell) Inspected the training of units of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire Fails to Raise £16,000 Roads Loan
Rejected by bankers,, brokers, insurance companies and superannuation boards, the Patrick Plains Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Weight and Speed Limit on Bridge
The Department of Main [?] advised last night’s meeting of Maitland City Council that on account of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commissioner of Railways Wins Prize at Stroud Show
Congratulations to the Commissioner of Railways and members of Stroud ' Road Railway staff on their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor cyclist fined after collision
A motor cyclist had 13 stitches inserted in facial wound's after the machine he was riding collided with…
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At the Shire Council meeting on Tuesday, while discussing the Marsh road and the complaint of bus drivers…
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