Motor Yachting Handicaps
The Newcastle branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club will hold handicaps for cruisers and speedboats on the Toronto Bay course to-morrow afternoon. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1940
2,099 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 105
Prams on Trams Tasmanian Women Stand Firm
Hobart women are putting up a strenuous fight against restrictions on prams in trams. The Tramway Board recently made a regulation forbidding mothers to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£5,837,159 in Goods Big Railway Purchases SYDNEY
Claiming that it is the largest purchaser of stores and materials in Australia, the New South Wales Railway Department…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early Bridge Builder
The "Newcastle Morning Herald" of January 20, 1890, records the death of John Monie, a noted contractor of half a century ago…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Express Train for Cessnock Test On
The Intercity Express train is to be run from Sydney to Cessnock next Friday returning to Sydney on Saturday morning to ascertain the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Military Road for South Wollongong
It is proposed to construct a military road from the top of Mt. Keira to connect with Prince's Highway, about a mile north of Wollongong. The proposed road…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fast Daily Train Service Cessnock-Sydney Express Likely
It is probable that an express train, similar to the Intercity Express, will run from Cessnock to Sydney and return daily, according to information received…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Road Deaths Improvement for 1939 Expected SYDNEY
Figures made available to-night by the Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways (Mr. C. N. Neale) show that 518 persons were killed in road accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lad's Death at Junee Work for 600 on New Road Wide Powers For Investigator SYDNEY Saturday. WOLLONGONG
Very wide powers, said the Minister for Health (Mr. FitzSimons) have been given to the Director-General of Health (Dr. E. Sydney Morris) in Six hundred men will be employed shortly by the Main Roads Department on the construction of a new road from Mount Keira to Prince's…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Yachting
Handicaps for cruisers and speedboats on the course of the Newcastle branch of the Royal Motor Yacht Club, on Toronto Bay…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Motoring Fatality at Grtea
One was killed instantly and another injured when a car in which they were driving failed to make a turn near the pumping…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Berlin Train Collision London, January 21
Five persons were slightly injured in a train collision at the suburban station at Berlin…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fell From Train, Lost Memory Sydney
Beatrice Dixon, 15, of Lakemba, fell from a train between Sydney and Marickville stations to-day and was taken to hospital suffering from head injuries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Collapsed in Train Cutting Ambulance's Awkward Trip
The station officer of Wallsend branch of Newcastle Ambulance (Mr. W. Lowe) found Darrell Davis, 25, of Douglass-street, White Gates, Wallsend, in a state…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Four Injured Road Accidents at Week-end
Four persons were injured in road accidents in Newcastle and district at the week-end. Two men were admitted to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shots at a Taxi Incident on Paterson Road
Two shots from a pearifle were fired at a taxi on the road between East Maitland and Paterson on Saturday night. One of the shots missed; the other…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →B.H.P. and the Railways Minister Denies Special Treatment Benefits to Country Interests Sydney
The Minister for Transport (Mr. M. F. Bruxner) contests a claim by the Secretary of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales that country districts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →South Maitland Railways F.e.d.f.a. Award
At a stop-work meeting of the Maitland brunch of the Federated Engine drivers and Firemen's Association at West Maitland to-day, it was decided…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lake Council's Plan to Improve Roads Motor Tax Fund Would Apply to County of Northumberland
Lake Macquarie council last night adopted a minute of the President (Cr. T. A. Johnson) to recommend that the Local Government Association ask the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Time for Smoko Refused Road Workers Dissatisfied SYDNEY
Trouble among about 4000 road construction workers appeared inevitable unless a settlement was reached in a dispute which had arisen since they were…
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