"Keep Them Going" District Steam Trams Councils Active
Waratah Council last night agreed to co-operate with Wallsend and Lake Macquarie Councils in urging that the tram services to West…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1927
3,010 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 151
Tram Hits 'Bus Collision at Tighe's Hill Narrow Escapes
Passengers in the front compartments of a Newcastle-bound tram had a narrow escape at the high-level bridge on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Both Criticised Debate on Trams and 'Buses Lambton Candor
At last night's meeting of Lambton Council some candid expressions of opinion were indulged in in connection with the running of both trams and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Beats Horse Novel Challenge Race WAUCHOPE
Wren Heath, a racehorse, ridden by W. Landrigen, was matched against a motor cycle driven by A. Porter in a challenge race over a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplane Disaster
An Air Force aeroplane at Malta, flying in a downpour of rain, with boisterous wind, attempted a forced landing, and struck a cliff. It then fell into the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Roads Aid Act
At a meeting of the unemployed, held in Newcastle this week, a resolution was passed urging the State Government to enter into agreement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Works Conference
Greta Council's works committee, town clerk and foreman of works to meet Mr. W. R. Lindsay, Kearsley Shire engineer, on Monday, to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will Cost More Glebe-road Reconstruction
Merewether Council forwarded to Adamstown Council last night a copy of a letter stating that since the acceptance by councils of the Main…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Billions of Mice Swarming Pests Ranging California Roads Impassable Destruction of Foodstuffs, Clothing, and Crops
Swarming billions of mice are ravaging a large district in Eastern California, where towns have been invaded and clothing and food destroyed. The roads in some places are reported to be impassable, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Traffic on Punts
The phenomenal growth in motor traction in New South Wales has caught the various water transport services on main roads completely…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Police Court Wednesday, January 19. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Railwaymen Charged
Leslie Purvis (29), shunter, and Percy Arthur Haslam (36), yard master, were each charged that, at Hamilton, on December 15, they stole eleven books and a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Collision at Tighe's Hill Tram Strikes Omnibus
Fortunately no one was injured when a tramcar, city-bound, came into collision with a stationary motor omnibus at the top of the Tighe's Hill high-level bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →World's Biggest Huge Railway Merger New York
James J. Sill, who built the Great Northern railway line, has been dead many years, but his dream of a huge railway Empire under one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Traffic Congested Adamstown Tram Terminus
The Public Works Department informed Adamstown Council, through Mr. Cornell. M.L.A., that the estimate of cost of the proposed extension of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Road to Salt Ash Reconstruction Proposal
Alderman Houston moved at the last meeting of the Stockton Council that the Port Stephens Shire be asked to meet the council in conference to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Building Tar Mixed with Water New Invention
It is intended by several leading business men in Newcastle district to conduct a demonstration, of a new method of dust-binding and road…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£2000 WASTED Bungled Road Job Jesmond to Wallsend
Two thousand pounds was spent on the road from Jesmond to Wallsend, known as the Newcastle-road, 12 months ago…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Departmental Inquiries Protest by Tramwaymen. Sydney
A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Reid, Sullivan and Murphy, executive officers of the Tramway Employees' Union, was introduced to Mr. Flannery, Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland Tramway
It is stated that satisfactory arrangements can be made with the Railway Commissioners to permit of an electric tramway being installed to connect…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Four Hours Sydney-Newcastle by Sea Motor Ship's Record
"Full speed ahead" was runs on the Port Dunedin as the vessel cleared South Head, Sydney, at 4.2 a.m. to-day…
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