Road Safety
Motorists and cyclists ignore the rules of the road, and motor lorries between Newcastle and the steel industries seem to be the worst…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
1,230 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 62
Train Mix-up in Sydney
SYDNEY.—An electric train which broke down at Ashfield station today disorganised train traffic and caused hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'Repaired' Boots Were Getting 'Bit Uncomfortable' In Brief Runaway Train Hits Building: Many Passengers Killed
A fanner handed a pair of boots to a Geelong bootmaker and said, "Will you fix these up. They're gettin' a bit uncomfortable." He'd just about "fixed" the boots himself…
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PERTH, Monday.—Nearly 200 rain passengers, marooned in the Perth-Kalgoorlie express because of floods, which have washed away…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Hardly Room to Cross Islington Bridge"
Mayfield branch of the A.L.P. will ask the Department of Railways to widen the Scholey-street overhead bridge connecting…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →19 Die in Swiss Train Smash
ZURICH, Feb. 23. A.A.P.—Nineteen people, including two women and a 12-year-old boy, were killed and 48 wounded in a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blue Metal Pile On Line Derails Train
LITHGOW, Monday.— Police and railway officials investigating the derailment of a goods train on the Western line, between…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Union Moves to Ban Old Trams
SYDNEY, Monday.—The banning of more than 100 of Sydney's old footboard trams after March 21 was recommended by the Tramway Employees' Union State Executive to-day…
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ONE EVENING, I watched a tramp and his cattle dog trudge along the dusty road. The man's face was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Replace Bridge Over Railway
Greater Newcastle Works Committee will recommend to the council that it agree to the replacement of a footbridge over the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Scouts "Demolish" Bridge
Newcastle First Class Scouts at the week-end carried out an exercise based on one of Brigadier Wingate's exploits in Burma…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deputation On Loan For Lake Roads
The Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided last night to send a deputation to the Chief Engineer of the Department of Main…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wed.: At least five were killed and 20 injured today when the south-bound express was derailed 20 miles south of Blenheim (South Island)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suburban and District £1550 Grant for Lake Shire Road
Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night accepted a grant of £1550, made available by the Minister for Public Works (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Washaways Delay East-West Train
PERTH, Wednesday.—The trans-continental train stranded at Zanthus, in the Nullarbor Plain, by washaways, is not likely to reach…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six Now Dead, 37 Hurt; N.Z. Railway Smash
WELLINGTON, Wednesday.—Six people are now known to be dead and 37 others are in hospital as the result of the worst…
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SYDNEY: Armed guards are now being used by the Railway Department to prevent pillaging from railway trucks, the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) revealed today. This step was necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legacy Plan To Train Children
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A Legacy certificate of adoption plan "to teach children a democratic way of life," and which is expected to…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.—Of six killed in the South Island train smash, the remaining three have been identified as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Brief: Train Creeps On
Stranded at Zanthus, on the Nullarbor Plain, because of floods, the Transcontinental train has now crept to within 32 miles of…
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