Tanks Damage Roads and Bridges
TAMWORTH, Thursday.—Following an accident at Wingen, 12 miles north of Scone, in which an elderly woman received severe…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
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New Rail Bridge for Cockle Creek
Cockle Creek railway bridge is to be replaced with a modern two-span structure, as part of the department's plan for strengthening all bridges and culverts on the Northern line. Plans have been completed for the new structure which will comprise two 150-ft. spans capable of carrying heavy locomotives and fast passenger trains…
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BERLIN, Thursday: Bandits dressed in Russian uniforms held up the Bremen-Berlin train on Wednesday night at the small station of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Feeling was so high among New South Wales railway employees at the department's method of checking absentees, that…
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Patrick Vincent O'Connell, of Lorn, who received severe head injuries when he was thrown from a horse and struck a passing motor…
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TO shorten the distance over water, compared with the old bridge, by 146 feet, and considerably reduce construction costs of the new railway…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Imposed in 1941 to cover the cost of A.R.P. installations, the petrol surcharge had an accumulation of £2,000,000, which…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—One man was fatally injured and another had his leg broken when the last carriage of a train from Melbourne to…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—When the car in which she was riding got out of control on the Coraki-Lismore road last night, Marie McDermott, 19, was…
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LONDON, Jan. 13. A.A.P.—Reuter's Jerusalem correspondent says armed men derailed a train between Lydda and Haifa, using explosives…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—A new road service from Canberra to Sydney, via Moss Vale and Wollongong, will begin on February 18…
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The absence of the usual Sunday trains to Sydney is thrusting a burden on the Monday morning services. This morning more than 1600 passengers left Newcastle between 6.33 a.m. and 9.15 a.m…
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Steps are being taken by the National Roads and Motorists'. Association to bring up to date its map service and travelling…
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A boy was injured and a girl suffered from shock when a motor-cycle and sidecar left the road and dropped over an embankment in…
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JERUSALEM, Jan. 14. A.A.P.—Seventeen suspects arrested following a search in the Jewish colony of Hedera, in central Palestine, after…
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LONDON, Jan. 14. A.A.P.—About 50 persons were injured when a train crashed into a buffer stop at Waterloo station. Six of the…
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Two men were injured, one seriously, when a motor cycle ran into a kerb on Memorial Drive yesterday afternoon…
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Newcastle business interests are perturbed by the failure so far of the Railway Department to restore trains eliminated during the recent coal strike. Inadequate transport services are claimed to be hampering production in such lines as clothing, which are in…
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SYDNEY: Five victims of last night's tram smash on the Harbor Bridge, who were admitted to hospital, were in a satisfactory…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Twenty-four people were injured when a tram crashed into the rear of another on the Sydney Harbour Bridge early…
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