Two Injured in Road Smash
When a car collided with another [?] Mayfield this morning the driver and his wife were injured. They were Alan Wilmott, 26, of…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
1,329 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 67
Motorists' Ideas on Postwar Cars
NEW YORK, Dec. 31. A.A.P.—The "New York Times", says that the Society of Automotive Engineers' nationwide survey of motorists'…
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LONDON.—Protest against successive Chancellors of the Exchequer mulcting the motor vehicle and its user in excessive taxation was made…
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NEW YORK, Sunday: At least 50 were killed and 150 injured when the second section of the Southern Pacific Railroad's "Pacific Limited" crashed into the first division, 14 miles west of Salt Lake City. Both trains were bound for San…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—As part of the Government's scheme for the rehabilitation of ex-servicemen, plans are, being prepared to train them for…
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Long queues of holiday-makers lined up outside the inquiry office and ticket windows of the Newcastle Railway Station from an…
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Hamilton North Progress Association will ask the Greater Newcastle Council to complete work on Chatham Road bridge. At present the…
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James Fitzpatrick, 30. an American can serviceman, suffered wounds on the face and scalp when he fell from a train at Wickham station…
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The North Coast mail to Sydney yesterday morning struck a bull on the line at Doon Ayr, near Gloucester. The front bogey of the…
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Notice has been served on the Dudley Land and Coal Company for the removal of the Dudley Bridge. The Lake Macquarie Shire Clerk…
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Representatives of Lake Macquarie Shire Council and Dudley Land and Coal Company are to confer on the removal of Dudley Bridge…
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GOSFORD, Tuesday.—Railway officials are puzzled as to when the bulk of 60,000 holidaymakers on the Central Coast will return to Sydney…
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TRAMS and buses in the Newcastle district carried 1,300, 580 passengers in 11 days in the Christmas-New Year holiday…
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GOULBURN, Tuesday.—Gunner Alan Trevor Betts, 21. who was reported missing from the 114th Australian General Hospital, where he…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Three cows which strayed on to the railway line near Thoruleigh this morning delayed the Kempsey Mail for 20…
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SYDNEY.—For the third day in succession straying cattle have broken through railway fences and been killed. Two cows last night…
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SYDNEY.—The mutilated body of an Australian soldier was found at 11.30 a.m. today in the City railway tunnel about 300 yards on the…
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Improved and alterated train services were announced by the Railway Department last night. Commencing from tomorrow and…
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LONDON, Wednesday: The capture of Wanting by forces from China, places the entire Chinese section of the Burma Road in Chinese hands. The Japanese had heavy casualties…
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KEMPSEY, Thursday.—A passenger aircraft flying from Brisbane to Sydney was forced to land at Kempsey this morning through…
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