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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1927

3,010 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 151

North Shore Bridge. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

An agreement has been reached between the Ironmongers' Association and Dorman, Long and Company, contractors for the North Shore Bridge in Sydney, as a result…

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Train Robbery Tom Mix for Lyric

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 8

Tom Mix has been secured by the Lyric Theatre management for next week in "The Great K and A Train Robbery," his latest Fox release…

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Northern Train Sunday Night Change SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 6

Next Sunday night only the 8.37 p.m. northern train, which ordinarily runs as far as Tamworth, will stop at Newcastle…

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Unique Mishap "Collided with Itself" Train Wrecked London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

Two o'clock in the morning courage was displayed by a post office official. Albert Amis, when a train "collided with itself" at Woodbridge,…

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Motor Records

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

It is reported from Paris that Mr. Eldridge, driving an eight cylinder two-litre Miller car, covered 50 kilometres in 92 seconds, and fifty miles in 1448.87…

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A Mystery Motor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

Early in January an amazing motor car, already known as thes "Mystery S," will be taken from locked and guarded workshops at Wolverhampton for a test by…

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Fatal Motor Smash Car and Cycle Collide. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

One man was killed and two others injured when a motor car collided with a bicycle, and then dashed into a culvert and overturned in Hardy-street, Ashfield,…

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Boarding a Moving Tram. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

While attempting to board a moving tram in Alfred-street, North Sydney, to-night, William Jenkins, 66, of Glebe, slipped, and was dragged along the…

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Killed on the Railway. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

William Clerk, 30, of Bankstown, was run down and killed by a train near Newtown railway station this afternoon. Clark, in company with two other men,…

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Dismissed Railwaymen. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 7

Mr. G. Bodkin, secretary of the Railway Workers' Branch of the A.W.U., to-day sent a letter to Mr. J. Fraser, Chief Railway Commissioner, asking him to make…

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Maitland District Exit the Tramway

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 8

The cumbersome tramway system established between East and West Maitland, and opened on February 8, 1909, came to an inglorious ending last evening…

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Our Railway System

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 5

It was part of the policy of Mr. Coates, when, some years ago, he took in hand the difficult job of railway administration, to send his heads of departments…

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Fines on Spot Motor Traffic Decree PARIS

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 1

Offending motorists will probably welcome a new decree enacting traffic police to collect fines on the spot While offenders find their pocketbooks,…

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Badly Battered Railway Union Suffers Leader's Warning London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 1

The disastrous consequences of the trade onion policy. in the year now closing, ire the keynote of a New Year menage which Mr. J. H. Thomas,…

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Last Trip Made Maitland Trams Are Dead

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 9

A strange and unnatural air of quietude hung over Maitland to-day, and residents were at a loss for a time to account for it, but melancholy…

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In Liquidation Big Motor Firm LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 January 1927 · page 8

The creditors of A.C. Cars. Limited, carried a resolution accepting voluntary liquidation. Second debenture holders will lose £58,295, and…

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Motoring Accidents Many People Injured Some Narrow Escapes. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 5

New Year's Day was marked by an exceptionally large number of accidents, in which motor cars were involved. In one smash nine persons were hurt, and in…

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Sulky and Motor Car. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 5

A horse attached to a sulky suddenly bolted while trotting along Prince's Highway, Waterfall, yesterday, and after galloping for some distance crashed into a…

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Smash at St. Kilda 'Bus and Tram Collide Many Injured Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 7

After being struck by an electric tram bound for Coburg, an express motor 'bus was overturned near St. Kilda junction at 10.20 a.m. to-day…

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Changed Times Motor Coach Station LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

London's, first motor coach station, capable of embarking 1000 passengers simultaneously, is being erected at Brixton…

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