Maitland Accident Risk on Belmore Bridge
Maitland City Council last night decided to ask the Department of Main Roads how far it had gone with its plans for a new bridge over the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1947
1,590 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 80
Motor Cyclists Fined for Overloading
For being an unlicensed rider of a motor cycle, carrying two pillion passengers, and overloading the machine, Raymond J. Gilchrist, Gregory…
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SYDNEY: Developments today will determine whether the tram and bus employees persist with their plans for a stopwork meeting on Monday. Tram and Bus Employees Union…
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SYDNEY: Almost 40,000 tons of stone will crash down when 28001b of high explosive is set off at the Railway Department's quarry at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Uneven City Roads "Dangerous"
Uneven road surfaces in Hunter-street and Maitland-road constituted a danger to motorists, the District Superintendent of the N.R.M.A. (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greek Guerillas Wreck Railway
ATHENS, Jan. 15. A.A.P.—Guerillas tore up a railway track and blew up a bridge 14 miles north of Salonika, interrupting traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Monday's Tram, Bus Hold-up Undecided
SYDNEY: Whether the 24-hour stoppage of all trams and buses goes on in Sydney and Newcastle next Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Train Record Number As Teachers
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A record number of students will be trained this year at the Teachers' Colleges. The shortage of schoolteachers in…
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NEW YORK, January 16.—A system under which passengers buy tickets to get meals on trains, and receive bills at the end of the month,…
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LOS ANGELES, Thursday: Superior Judge Scott sentenced former world's tennis champion, William Tilden, to nine months' hard labor with a road gang for having contributed to the delinquency of a 14-year-old boy…
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"WHAT TIME does the first bus leave Adamstown to-morrow morning, please?" a man asked the tramway depot over the telephone…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tram, Bus Stoppage Still On, Say Union Leaders
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Tram and Bus Union officials said late to-night that Sydney and Newcastle would be without trams and buses on Monday, despite a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Tram Union officials tried unsuccessfully to-night to get the New South Wales Labour Council's support for a one-day stoppage on Monday. During the debate, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trams, Buses To Stop For 24 Hours On
SYDNEY: Trams and Government-owned buses will not operate in Sydney or Newcastle for 24 hours from midnight on Sunday. This was decided by the combined…
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The Brabazon I., the biggest aeroplane yet to be built in Britain, is now in an advanced stage of construction at Bristol. The plane will be able to lift 126 tons, have a maximum level speed of over 300 miles an hour, and a range of 5000 miles. There will be a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Move for City Aerodrome
FULL Information, to be submitted as evidence of the need for a civil airport in Newcastle, is to be obtained by Newcastle Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Injured Child on Road
A six-year-old boy was found lying in the middle of Glebe-road near the Merewether oHtel yesterday morning. He was taken to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pit Fans Picked Up Dust from Road
LITHGOW, Friday.—Western Main colliery was idle to-day because fans sucked dust into a tunnel from a nearby road, whose surface has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Improvements to Railway Forecast
Increasing traffic on the main Northern railway line between Sydney and Newcastle would eventually necessitate progressive improvements…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Ran Away After Smash
WELLINGTON, Friday.—Noticing a driverless tram in an Auckland-street this morning, a motorman, R. Taberner, of Auckland, boarded it…
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