Record on Railways Contributing Factors
Greater prosperity, wider concessions, and perfect weather combined to make Christmas and New Year railway traffic…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1938
3,201 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 161
MOTORS for grace and Pace Motorists Take Homes on Tour with Them
The number of motor trailers and caravans now to be seen in the Newcastle district on the move or comfortably ensconced in secluded and secluded camping areas is remarkable this Christmas…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Trespass
Two youths, Kenneth Gardiner and John Patrick Graham, pleaded guilty at West Maitland Police Court to-day to having on January 3 trespassed on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Took Motor Cycle
For having taken and used a motor cycle without the consent of the owner (Thomas Drury) on January 1, Clement McBriarlty. 23, laborer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Killed in Railway Tunnel Sydney
Drivers of underground electric trains were warned to travel slowly to-day on the Wynyard section while ambulance officers, police and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Condition of Roads Penrith-wallacia Road
The National Roads and Motorists' Association has been advised by the Nepean Shire Council that construction work is being carried out on the main road…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Holiday Tragedies 11 Drown: 22 Road Deaths SYDNEY
In the Christmas and New Year holiday period 11 people in New South Wales were drowned and 22 were killed in motor accidents, while more than 120 persons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Daughter Missing Ford Motor Executive Had Received Warnings Detroit (Michigan), January 4
Mr. Harry Bennett, head of the service department of the Ford Motor Company, and one of the five highest paid executives of the company, has reported paid executives…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway Trespassers
Kenneth Gardiner, 19 and John Patrick Graham, 22, pleaded "Guilty" to charges of having trespassed on railway property at West Maitland on January 3…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Drove on After Accident Motorist Fined
"These hit-run accidents are very serious matters and must be treated seriously," said Mr. Soane, S.M. at the Newcastle Summons Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Argument in Tram Conductor's Charge
An argument between a tram conductor and a passenger on a Carrington tram on November 16, was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Noisy Motor Horns Denounced Sydney
Charges that many drivers created a serious nuisance by needlessly sounding the horns of their care were made to-day by the President of the N.R.M.A…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →200 REPORTED Motorists Exceed New Speed Limit Greater Road Courtesy Sydney
The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. C. N. Neale) to-day issued a statement on behalf of the Minister for Transport (Mr. M. F. Bruxner) setting out that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Another Train to Sydney Increase In Traffic Responsible
Increased passenger traffic from Newcastle to Sydney on Saturday mornings has caused the Railway Department to put on an extra train…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →R.A.A.F. ACCIDENTS Inquiry Farcical, Says "Aeroplane" Machines Defended London, January 5
"Australia's latest farce is its inquiry into the Hawker Demons," says the English aviation weekly, "The Aeroplane," commenting on the inquiry instituted into…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LAMBTON-ROAD Adamstown to Spend £780 Council's Decision
Adamstown Council agreed last night to construct a 12-foot roadway on the northern side of Lambton-road tramway, at a cost of £780…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scrap Iron As Evidence Inquest on Murder of Truck Driver Heaps From Road And Sale To Suburban Iron Yard MELBOURNE
When the inquest into the death of John Thomas Demsey, 39, truck driver, was resumed before the City Coroner at the City Morgue to-day Plainclothes Constable Swingler told of the discovery on November…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Skidded on Ice Motor 'Bus Overturns Tourists Killed Severe Winter in Europe (Australian Associated Press.) ROME, January 5
Five German tourists were killed and 13 seriously injured when a motor bus skidded on the ice at Bolanzo and plunged into a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Cycling
The Royal Enfield Motor-cycle Club will hold its first monthly meeting for the 1938 season at the Domestic Machinery Pty. Co's. motor-cycle showrooms, 278 Hunter-street West, on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Railway Travel Big Exodus from Sydney New Year Holiday Figures Sydney
Figures of railway travel from Sydney to the country during the four days of the New Year holidays from December 31 to January 3 show all-round increases…
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