Railway and Tramway Veterans
The Retired Railway and Tramway Veterans' Association held its fortnightly meeting in the Rail and Tram Institute class-room, Newcastle. All officers were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1933
3,346 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 168
Train on Fire Two Trucks Damaged Dash to Station Melbourne
As a goods train en route from Melbourne to Bendigo emerged from a tunnel portion of the train was seen to be on fire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crossing Road at School Protest Against Regulations During Lunch Hour
A strong protest was made by Carrington Council last night against scholars not being allowed to leave Central School…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Railways Further Reorganisation Permanent Way Decentralised Control SYDNEY
Further information was made available to-day concerning the reorganisation of the branches of the railway service. The senior officers of the Way and Works…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Trams Suggested Disposal Trades Hall Opposition
The executive of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council met last night for the purpose of dealing with the report of the Transport Advisory Committee, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Yacht Club Thrills by Miss Esma and Flying Cloud
Miss Esma and Flying Cloud were the principals in three thrilling finishes in the speedboat races held at Toronto last Saturday afternoon by the Royal Motor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Railwaymen "Feared Strike-breakers" PERTH
Mr. A. E. Green, M.H.R., said to-day that a strike of Commonwealth railway employees would have occurred on the trans-Australian line but for the fear of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Removal Expenses Transferred Tramway Men
Recently Mr. H. J. Connell, M.L.A., protested to the Minister for Transport (Mr. M. F. Bruxner) against the decision not to allow removal expenses to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Popular Guard Mr. H. Collard Retires Humour on the Railway
Mr. Henry Collard has "checked-in" for the last time. Yesterday he was paid off from the railway service after 48 years. A genial character, his life has been one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor-cyclists Injured
The third accident since the West Maitland Municipal Council erected the fence across the roadway in the West Maitland Park at the end of last year occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →United Front of Protest Opposition to Sale of Trams
The co-operation of district, shire, and municipal councils is to be sought by the Trades Hall management committee, in presenting a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Three Killed Level Crossing Smash Motor-car and Train Melbourne
Three well-known Colac business men were killed in a level-crossing accident near Werribee early this morning, when a rail motor bound for Melbourne crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Aeroplane Fly Without Propeller German's Invention Berlin, January 17
Herr Adolf Rohrbach, of the Rohrbach Aeroplane Company, has designed a propellerless aeroplane, which, he claims, will revolutionise aeronautics…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sales Tax Advised by Mr. Hoover BRIDGE U.S. DEFICIT (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, January 17
That a sales tax be adopted immediately as the best method of bringing in Federal revenues to balance the Budget was recommended by President Hoover in a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victorian Railways
Victorian railway revenue from July 1. 1932, to January 14, 1933, aggregated £4,283,660, which was £95,292 more than for the corresponding period of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tramdriver Not Drunk Sydney
Arthur Keays. 44. a tramdriver, who was charged at Refern Police Court to-day with having been under the influence of intoxicating liquor while in charge…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Belmont Bridge Repairs
Kearsley Shire Council was Informed last night by the Main Roads Board that tenders were being called for the reconstruction of the Belmont…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Road Popular
Macquarie-road, which was recently reconstructed as an unemployed relief work, and which gives access from Cardiff to Warner's Bay, has become very popular,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Project More Details Sought Company's Offer Canberra
Negotiations between the Commonwealth Government and the company which has made an offer to build a railway from Bourke, in New South Wales,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sydney Railway
When work on the St. James-Circular Quay section of the Sydney underground railway in Sydney was in progress it was necessary to make on opening in the…
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