Road Manners in Denmark
COPENHAGEN: “Social Demokraten,” organ of the Danish Government, which is running a road safety…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1955
280 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 14
Sleep Brings Tragedy on Roads
Last year eleven people were killed and 174 injured on country roads because drivers of vehicles…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Grants For Roads In Lake Area
The Department of Main Roads approved a grant to Lake Macquarie Shire Council of £25,414 to reconstruct and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seque To Road Accident Story Told in Court
Last Wednesday at the Muswellbrook Court of Petty Sessions the police proceeded against Jeffrey Colin Kingdon on a charge of not driving near the centre at a corner…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Petition to Raise Status of Gungal Road Merriwa
The Shire Council on Monday received a petition, containing 28 signatures, requesting that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Centenary Year of State Railways Plant To Meet Bigger Demands On Service
September 26,1855, must surely have been described by the newspapers of the period as a, “red-letter day” in the history of Now South Wales for on that day was opened the first railway in the State…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Long Drive One-arrived Motorist
A. one-armed “Melbourne methodologist who recently drove from London to Bombay in a Standard 8 h.p. car with his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Loss Likely on Railway
SYDNEY: Losses on the Circular Quay railway, since 1936 could run into £4 million, a technical authority…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. May Train Vietnamese
WASHINGTON: The United States had been asked to take over training of the Vietnamese armed forces and had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gloucester to Scone Road
The Gloucester Shire Council and Upper Hunter Shire Council have decided to request a deputation to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Inquiry On Quay Railway
SYDNEY: The N.S.W. Government will not authorise an independent inquiry into allegations of gross wastage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sandy Hollow To Maryvale Railway
Muswellbrook Chamber of Commerce will send a letter to the Gulgong branch of the sandy Hollow-Maryvale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Motor Rally Goes To Sweden
MONTE CARLO: Captain Per Malling, an Oslo police official, won the Monte Carlo rally in a British Sunbeam…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jewellery Recovered From Train
BRISBANE: Jewellery valued at more than £650 was recovered from the Sydney-bound mall train at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Record in Road Deaths
SYDNEY: Road deaths in NSW in the first 23 days of this year have reached an all-time high, Road Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Week-end Road Accidents
Seven people were injured when two cars collided on the New England Highway, ten miles south of Muswelibrook, about 2.30 p.m. on Friday. The cars were extensively damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child's Death in Road Accident
A two-year-old boy was fatally injured and his parents hurt when a Holden car and a heavy lorry collided on the New England High, way, near Whittingham, on Sunday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Bodies Still Entombed in Wreckage of Train
LONDON: The bodies of three men and two women were still entombed last night in the wreckage of the express train which jumped the tracks on Sunday at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, killing 17…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Promises to Complete Maryvale-sandy Hollow Railway Line
Will this project be completed, or will it be completely abandoned? The answer might be after a big conference to be held at Gulgong on February 5. Several promises have been made by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fell From Motor Cycle
James Mabey 40, of Government road Weston, fell from his motor-cycle in Maitland-road Weston, and…
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