Mammoth Motor Liners
In view of the fact that passenger liners are likely to be ordered in the near future, which will be larger than any yet built, the recent completion…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1928
3,252 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 163
Railway Night Officers
Mr. Booth, M.P., has made representations to the secretary of the Railway Commissioners in regard to night officers whose services, it has been rumoured, are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor & Cycling Notes
No more enjoyable acquisition to the motor car has ever been invented than the Trailer Caravan. It enables carowners to enjoy some of the happiest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wickham Road Roller
To save £290 in interest, Wickham Council decided at its last meeting to purchase a road roller for cash, instead of availing itself of the terms…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Called Road Hog Motorist Drove at 50 M.P.H. "Too Fast"
That he was driving his car at 50 miles an hour along Maitland-road when there was a good deal of traffic on the road on January 7 last, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wear Starting Glebe-Adamstown Road
Glebe-Adamstown road, which was reconstructed by Merewether Council last, year with the assistance of the Main Roads Board, requires early…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Mistake Adelaide Tourist Killed Train Tragedy Berne
Tragedy ended the world tour of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Victor Mitton, of Adelaide, who were travelling from London to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train Wreckers Send Express Into Creek; Forty Passengers Killed 40 KILLED Express Wrecked Deliberate Act Rescue Party Too Late CALCUTTA
The wrecking of the Rangoon Mandalay train, resulting in the killing of more than 40 people, was due to a torn-up rail, believed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys Run Over by Trams. Sydney
There were two cases of boys being run over by trams to-day. The first occurred at Five Dook, when Norman Page, 10, of that suburb, slipped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →American Motors
The automotive products exported from the United States in 1927 have reached the record high rate of 405 million dollars, representing 20 per cent, gain over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Railway Fatality
Forty persons were killed and 30 injured by a railway disaster, a hundred miles from Rangoon, on the main line to Mandalay…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Frozen at Wheel Lady Motorist's Ordeal Fight for Record
"It was terrible: I thought it was the end; when they came to relieve me I was crying with the pain." This was the frank admission of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Race Dispute Motor Yacht Club
Although Edna (J. Williams) was first in the B class handicap, conducted by the Royal Motor Yacht Club, the announcement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Exciting Race Motor Yacht Club
A feature of the Royal Motor Yacht Club's programme of races on Saturday was the A class handicap for boats over 12 m.p.h. The contest…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Motor 'Bus Fire Driver's Foot Burned
When a motor 'bus caught fire at the Waratah terminus to-day, the driver, Ronald Screen had his right foot burned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Train Derailed
Through a coupling breaking portion of a coal train was derailed near Hanbury Junction, north of Waratah, early yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tree Across Road
The prompt action of one of the N.R.M.A. (Newcastle) guides in reporting to the P.M.G.'s Department, and also to the City Council, that a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock-broke Road
In July of last year the Patrick Plains and Kearsley Shire Councils were requested by the Main Roads Board to arrange for the engineers of the two shires…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →World's Largest Hudson River Bridge
This is an age of superlatives, and it would sometimes seem that the ultimate word of praise has been bestowed when we are able to say that something is the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Too Many Pot-holes Motorists Prefer Detour Anna Bay Road
Fullerton-road, the main road from the Stockton vehicular ferry to Anna Bay, is in such a had condition in the Stockton municipality that motorists…
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