Railway Insurance Rates 'Too High'
The Railway Department is trying to avoid accepting responsibility for the safeguarding of valuable parcels and we should enter an emphatic…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1945
1,329 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 67
Jolted Through Train Window
When a northern-bound train slowed down unexpectedly approaching West Maitland Station today a passenger was jolted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Extra Sydney Train on Fridays
The Railway Department announced that, starting on Friday, an additional train would leave Newcastle for Sydney at 12.23 p.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Trams for Races None for Schools"
"It is wicked that special trams to carry children to swimming baths and playing areas have been eliminated while trams are running to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supt. Explains Railway Insurance Charges
Alterations in the luggage insurance rates on N.S.W. railways had been made to bring the charges into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram Restrictions Kept At School Today
Decision of the Transport Department to cut out special trams for the transport of school children to sporting areas resulted in hundreds of children who would normally haev gone swimming spending most of this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Council Seeks Removal Of Overhead Bridge
Removal of an overhead railway bridge crossing Howe Street, Lambton, will be asked for by a deputation from the Greater Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland, Kurri, Cessnock Want Bridge at Telarah Graziers Seek Help of Council
In a letter to Maitland Pastures Protection Board yesterday, the District Superintendent of Railways (Mr. Juchan) said it was not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bombers Cut Railways
LONDON, Feb. 7. A.A.P.—R.A.F. Tempest operated on the outskirts of Brunswick, only 100 miles west of Berlin, yesterday when well over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council Will Protest Ban on School Trams
Greater Newcastle Council Health Committee will protest against the ban on special trains for school-children. The Commissioner for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plattsburg Rural School Protest on Trams
Plattsburg District Rural School Parents and Citizens' Association at Wallsend criticised the Transport Department's discontinuance of trams for school…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Trams for Sport Days District Protest Move Urged
Failure of the Education Department officials to make some public protest immediately the elimination of school sport trams…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Train Church Army Staff College Opened
Mrs. Frank Cooper, wife of the Premier of Queensland, last night opened the new training college for captains and sisters of the Church…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Railways Reduced to Worst State by Bombing
LONDON, Feb. 8. A.A.P.—"Allied day and night bombing has reduced Germany's vast railway system, which formerly was the most…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grafton Railway Strike May Be at Week-end
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Railway traffic on the North Coast may be tied up by a decision of railway employees in the marshalling yards at South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Attempt to Derail Train Failed
LITHGOW, Friday.—An attempt was made to derail a train on the Portland-Pipers' Flat railway line this morning but a minor mistake on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Running for Tram, Crashed Into Barrier
SERGEANT D. WADE, of Waratah, was running along the platform at Broadmeadow station to catch a tram when he crashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain Makes Plans for Network of Motor Ways
A NEW network of motorways is being planned in Britain to relieve the strain on the existing main-road system after the war…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Inspect Carrington Bridge
To cope with the increased traffic resultant upon Carrington's development as an important industrial centre, an up-to-date bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Throsby Creek Bridge Inspection
Mr. F. H. Hawkins, M.L.A., last night told Carrington A.L.P. branch that he had invited the Minister for Transport (Mr…
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