Pleasure Motoring Banned in Eastern U.S.A.
WASHINGTON, January 8.—The Price Administrator (Mr. Henderson) has banned pleasure and non-essential motoring in 17 Eastern States,…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1943
855 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 43
Waratah Tram Service
Complaints that the Waratah tram service was unsatisfactory were made at a meeting of Waratah branch of the…
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LONDON, January 10.—Compulsory training for all farm labourers, shepherds and milkmaids in the Reich for civil defence has been decreed…
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Falling off a tram in Maitland-road, Islington, early yesterday morning, Isobel Hopkins, 46, of Clyde-street, Islington, dislocated her left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Connolly Park and Railway Tennis Leaders
By "Forehand." — Connolly Park, by defeating Nesca, now lead the A and A Reserve grade section of the mixed teams…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Maitland Railway Award Increase
SYDNEY.—Certain variations in the award of the Railway Employes' (South Maitland Railways Pty. Ltd. Wages Division Award were…
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LONDON, January 11.—Because their "knockers-up" were withdrawn, between 300 and 400 enginedrivers and firemen in the Nottingham area…
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JUNEE.—While Thomas Briton, 52, train examiner, was offing a carriage neat the railway station yesterday a train that was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Tanks Cut Tunisian Road
LONDON, Jan. 12.—British infantry and tanks on Sunday pushed the Germans out of positions in Tunisia and straddled the arterial Goumbellat road, 16 miles west of Pont du Fahs (south-west of Tunis), says an associated…
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Following a request by the Principal of Newcastle Technical College (Mr. R. Basden) for a tramway shelter shed in front of the college…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rommel Aerodrome Wrecked:heavy Blow by Fortresses
LONDON, Wednesday.—The latest reports of the Flying Fortress raid on Castel Benito aerodrome near Tripoli, the most important in Tripolitania, show it to hove been the most destructive since Rommel retreated from El…
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Pilots of a typical R.A.F. Beaufighter squadron board a tender to return to Headquarters for interrogation after wrecking an enemy supply train on the railway leading out of Sidi Barrani. The blaze from ammunition waggons which the airmen set on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Danger Near Wallsend Hospital
Declaring that 500 people visited Wallsend Hospital every week, Ald. Scott-Daisley asked Greater Newcastle Council last night to tar…
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TOWNSVILLE. Wednesday.—Prompt action and courage by a railway fireman and a member of the fighting forces prevented a train…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Port Waratah Tram Not to be Restored
The Federal authorities have endorsed the refusal of the State Ministers to restore the tramway service to Port Waratah and to construct a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lightning Strikes Tram
A tram was struck by lightning in Hunter-street, Newcastle. Both of the motor controls were burnt out, but nobody was injured. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suburban and District Pensioners' Concession Fares on Trams and Buses
Complaints that pensioners have been refused fares at concession rates at times when concession certificates Should be accepted have been referred by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →White Lines on Roads Go
LONDON,—Owing to shortage of material and labor in Britain, only trunk roads and Class 1 roads are to be painted with white lines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Trams and Buses Pay Their Way
The Newcastle public transport system is no longer an impecunious dependant of the parent system in Sydney. Over a period of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Start of Grim Road Back for Nazis
TIDE STEMMED.—East, ever east, went ravaging Nazi hordes, till they spent their fury on scored Stalingrad. Here the Red troops are rushing to meet Huns on the town's outskirts. STATION PARALYSED.—Meantime, the Nazis had paralysed Stalingrad's main station—to their own confusion, for they could not use the railway to hasten retreat…
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