Railway Disaster
It is reported from Graffreinetts, South Africa, that two women and two children were killed and five persons injured in a railway accident…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1924
2,704 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 136
Motor Fatalities 65 IN 1923 Drivers' Competency SYDNEY
According to the City Coroner's report, there were 65 fatal motor accidents in Sydney during 1923. There were altogether 522 deaths from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tram Inconvenience
Travellers to Mayfield at night, since the electric trams started have a grievance. The last train, which leaves Mayfield at 11.33 p.m., does…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Road Plant Cessnock Purchase
On the recommendation of Mr. W. R. Lindsay, Shire engineer, Cessnock Council has purchased a 10-ton compound steam road roller and scarifier…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Road Sydney To Newcastle Practicable Route
The missing link in the coastalroad connecting Sydney and Newcastle was impressively brought under the notice of a party of Parliamenta[?]ans and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Ambulance
The committee controlling the Maitland Motor Ambulance Brigade has entered upon its financial campaign to raise funds in support of the new movement…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →42 Years' Service Railway Man Retires
In the paint shop department of the Honeysuckle railway workshops yesterday there was a large gathering of the employees to do honor to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Train Fog Horns Albury
Owing to the number of accidents at level crossings, the Victorian Railway Department has commenced to install fog horns on locomotives in held of whistles,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glebe-road Smash Drainage Work
Some time ago Merewether Adamstown and Hamilton Councils conferred with the Newcastle jockey Club with reference to the draining of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Difficulty
A serious situation on the railways is threatened as a result of a ballot, which embodied a provision empowering the executive of the union to call…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland District a Motor Accident
A peculiar accident occurred at the intersection of High and Hunter streets, West Maitland, on Sunday morning. Two youths, Keith Richards and Claude…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jewels for Sale Persian Heirlooms Money For Railways LONDON
The Persian Government has decided to sell portion of the Crown jewels in order to build railways…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paris Threatened with a Record Flood Seine Rises to Limit Retaining Wall Collapses Railwaymen's Narrow Escape Distress Signals from Roofs of Houses LONDON
It is reported from Paris that the Seine is still rising, and it is predicted that it will rise another four inches to-night, which is the limit. A section of the great wall separating the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Notes Great Mountain Climb by Motor Road to Barrington Some Difficulties of the Way Rough Crossings of Allyn River
Mr. R. H. Brighton, of Mayfield, has made a couple of trips to Barrington Tops recently, and has had plenty of experience in testing the merits of his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motoring Fatality. Evidence at Inquest
Mr. C. Hibble, district coroner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Court-house yesterday into the death of James Leslie Herd, which occurred at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Motor Age
Apart from the numerous useful purposes which the motor vehicle, or automobile as it used to be termed, is serving, its value in enabling people…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Notes Hamilton M.C. CLUB Night Riding
On Saturday, the Hamilton Motor Cycle Club held a 200 yards acceleration test near the new racecourse. Results: L. Peterson 6 h.p. Douglas,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Increase Maitland Motor Traffic
There has been extraordinary growth in the motor trade in Maitland during the past 12 months. It is estimated that there are 100 per cost…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Testing Motor Cycles For Empire Outposts
Every year a six days' motor cycle trial is held in Scotland, under conditions which approximate to those prevailing in the more or less…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Waiting for Lists Worry Among Railwaymen Aftermath of 1917 "Government Hard Against Us"
"When the porters, locomotive branch, and tramway men's seniority lists are published, there promises to be something doing," said a railway employee, a victim of the 1917 strike,…
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