Driver Neither Saw or Heard Train Witness's Opinion at Inquest On Crossing Fatality
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 1
A witness said at an inquest at Kurri Kurri on Friday that his impression was that the driver of a lorry that was struck by a train at the Abermain level crossing, neither saw nor heard the train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor-cycle News
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 2
Bad luck dogged competitors in the N.S.W. State Championships motor cycle races, held At Wal[?], near Penrith; on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aberdeen District News Motor Cyclist Injured Car Driver Charged
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 4
As the result of an accident on Sunday, a man was charged by Constable Gleeson on three counts of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Railway To Pay More For Water
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 5
GOSFORD: It will cost the New South Wales Railways approximately £4 a week extra to water its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attention for Tyres on Motors
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 4
Prudent, motorists study ways and means of keeping under control the cost of tyre replacements and repairs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leg Fractured In Fall On Railway
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 3
SINGLETON: Joseph Brda, of the signals and telegraphic branch the Railway Department suffered a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plan for overhead bridge at railway received
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 October 1953 · page 2
A preliminary plan for the proposed 900 yard road deviation and overhead bridge which would eliminate the railway level crossing at John Street and change the face of Singleton,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Branxton Road
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 October 1953 · page 2
Branxton-Greta branch of the Country Women's Association directed attention of Kearsley Shire Council to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →C.w.a. Wants Road Repaired
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 October 1953 · page 2
At the meeting of Kearsley Shire Council yesterday Branxton-Greta branch of the Country Women's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rabbits on Railway
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 21 October 1953 · page 3
Maitland Pastures Protection Board decided to seek the aid of the Minister for Agriculture in having rabbits…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reminder on Road Danger
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 October 1953 · page 2
City engineer Mr. E. R. Brown is to discuss with officers of the Main Roads Department the traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Duke’s Thoughts Of Motor Car Drivers
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 October 1953 · page 1
LONDON: “Let’s produce a comet of the car world,” the Duke of Edinburgh urged car manufacturers, when he opened the 1953 motor show yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Welfare Fund of Railway (By the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. R. Winsor)
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 October 1953 · page 4
The NSW Railways Welfare Fund is one of the notable achievements railway employees…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Engineer to alter bridge runners
Singleton Argus · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 1
The Shire Council yesterday directed the Shire engineer, Mr. McIntyre to make alterations to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Tax and Roads (To the Editor)
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 4
Sir.—From time to time some organisation demands that as petrol tax was imposed for roads all of it should be used for that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Highway Cut Off 4Ton Load Limit on Park Bridge
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 1
The Municipal Council at its meeting on Wednesday night imposed a 4-ton load limit on the Gerald Park bridge. The limit means that the New England Highway is virtually cut off for traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stories on Railway Lines
The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 5
A section of the Sunday Press in Sydney has published articles suggesting that the condition of railway lines…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accumulated Leave On Railways
Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 7
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Wetherell), answering a question in Parliament regarding accumulated leave…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Registrations
Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 4
CANBERRA: Australians registered 14,914 motor vehicles during September, according to figures released by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Malaya’s East Coast Railway Rebuilt
Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 7
The East Coast Railway of Malaya, destroyed by the British in strategic withdrawal before the Japanese in 1941 and later hacked up by the invader to build his Death Railway in Thailand, is running…
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