Railway Ban Modified One-Way Traffic From Queensland
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The ball on the carriage of goods by rail from Queensland to New South Wales had been lifted, the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan)…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
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No Law On Leaving Trams On Right
The police were not empowered to take any action against tram passengers alighting on the wrong side of the road, Newcastle police…
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SYDNEY: The secretary of the Tramway Employees' Union (Mr. J. Brock) agreed today with the statement of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Road Safety Plans For Newcastle
SYDNEY: Following the increase in road accidents in the Greater Newcastle area last year the Newcastle branch of the Road Safety Council has appointed a committee of management to plan a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →POP Doesn't Even Cross The Road
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Old Man Struck By Motor Car
SYDNEY.—Police are making an intensive search for a car driver who allegedly drove on after knocking down an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Poor Drainage on Sandgate Roads
At the annual meeting of Sandgate P. and C. Association last night, it was decided to ask Greater Newcastle Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Roads Repaired When Men, Plant Available
South Wallsend roads would be repaired as soon as men and plant were available, Greater Newcastle Council advised South Wallsend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tow Rope Breaks, Pole Hits Bridge
Slight damage was caused to the wall parapet of the Broadmeadow overhead railway bridge about 9 a.m. today when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Toll of Road" Concerns J's.P
Concern was expressed last night at the Northern N.S.W. Federation of Justices of the Peace meeting at the increase…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rail-Motor Fuel Pumps Snapped
GYMPIE, Friday.—Three fuel pumps were found snapped on the Gympie-Maryborough rail-motor this morning Heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Inquiry Into Death Of Railway Guard
SYDNEY, Friday.—Police hope that investigations in Sydney may help solve the poisoning of Robert Sylvester Condron, railway guard,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend "May Lose Trams"
There was a real danger of Wallsend trams being done away with, Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., told Kurri Kurri A.L.P. Electoral…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Campaign To Retain Wallsend Trams
The Deputy Mayor (Ald. J. H. Rundle) said this morning that he would fight strenuously to retain the tram service to Wallsend. "If the transport authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Make Roads Safe at Easter"
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Road Safety Council had launched a "stop-accidents" campaign for Easter, the Minister for Transport (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Tar-pave All Roads in Three Years"
Every road in the City of Greater Newcastle should have been tar-paved in three years, after which it should be possible to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trams To Remain
SYDNEY: Tenders for 250 new trams close to-morrow and the contract will be authorised without…
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LONDON: Mr. Bertram Reece, the Clerkenwell magistrate, told Joseph A. W. Thackeray, 27, motor driver, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dora Creek Bridge
Audley Reay of Campbell's Hill, West Maitland, comments on the handing over the old railway bridge at Dora Creek as a road bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tram Danger
As a careful car driver, I suggest Newcastle's traffic peril is accentuated by the failure to require tram users to descend on the left of the…
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