Two Years' Work on Bridge Site at Hawkesbury
IT took more than two years to prepare the site and construct difficult machinery used in the erection of the new railway bridge…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1946
1,642 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 83
Bona Fides Questioned Road Union Left Without Quorum
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Council of the Road Transport Union was unable to hold a meeting yesterday because the bona…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stop Press Uniform Railway Gauge
CANBERRA: To persuade the states to agree to standardisation of Australian railway lines, the Commonwealth today offered to the…
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The Deputy City Engineer (Mr. Rudd) reported to Greater Newcastle Finance Committee that maintenance and improvement of main…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →S.A. Cricket Visit To Newcastle Depends On Train
SYDNEY: The touring South Australian cricket team win play at Newcastle on February 7 if able to secure a train from…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Holiday Timetable On Tram Services
Ordinary holiday timetables will operate on tram services on Monday January 28. Special timetables have been…
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Sir,—Greater Newcastle Council seems to have plenty of money for resuming properties for a Cultural Centre, but none for eliminating the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Death Kept Bridge Closed
SYDNEY: After a boat bad waited an hour to pass under Gladesville bridge early this morning. It was discovered that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Premiers to Meet on Main Roads
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Premiers' conference decided to-day to hold a conference later between Commonwealth and State officers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →144 Cemeteries Found on Burma Railway
SINGAPORE, Jan. 24.—Since the Japanese capitulation in Malaya, a British and Australian reconnaissance party, with prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Staff Absenteeism on Railways
SYDNEY, Thursday.—All unions concerned in the discussions that had taken place between the New South Wales Trades and Labour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Ex-Soldiers in Newcastle
Ex-servicemen wishing to take a part-time course under the re-employment scheme would be catered for within the technical college…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Complaints Of Overcrowding On Paper Train
Passengers who arrived in Newcastle this morning on the 1.30 a.m. paper train from Sydney complained bitterly of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Eden by Road Into Another World By Bicycle
IT IS a great mistake to regard a bicycle as just a piece of machinery, a means of getting to work or even to the Lake for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Railway Works Begin in North
A LONG list of improvement and constructional works, to cost many thousands of pounds, has been approved for the railway service in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Race Home-built Motor-cycle
A racing motor-cycle which he built himself in his spare time, would carry a local speedway rider, Bill Mellbuish, of Mayfield, when he races at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Fatally Injured Motor Cycle, Car Collided
Geoffrey Kloster, 43, of Wyuna-road, Point Piper, Sydney, was fatally injured when his motor-cycle and a car collided at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →14 Injured in Tram Collision
SYDNEY, Monday.—Fourteen people were injured late this afternoon when two trams collided in Doncaster-avenue, Randwick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Woman's Headless Body Seen On Railway Line
KATOOMBA: The decapitated body of a young woman, about 22 years of age, was seen by the driver of an early morning mail train this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge Across Hawkesbury Sixth Span Into Position To-day
The first of two 150ft. spans for the new railway bridge across the Hawkesbury River will be floated into position to-day. It will be the…
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