Complaints Of Tram Delays At Depot
Members of Newcastle A.L.P. branch complained last night about tram delays claimed to be owing to staff changing at Gordon-avenue…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1948
1,230 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 62
Increase Adelaide Tram Fares
ADELAIDE, Wednesday.— Rising costs, including £274.000 estimated to be involved by the five-day working week, have resulted in…
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All the motor-bikes in creation are not worth a single human life. Yet in the four week-ends before Christmas there was an average of…
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SYDNEY.—Fifty-two honesty boxes on 13 Sydney trams yielded on one day exactly a half-penny…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Killed In Train Collision
LONDON, Sat. (A.A.P.).—Three were killed, including the driver and learner motorman, and 34 injured when a packed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Railway Goods Cut To-day
GOODS for carriage by rail, except coal, livestock and perishables, would not be accepted after midnight last night,…
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Slipping on the road while walking from work yesterday, Frank Hill (18) of 22 Raymond-st., Speers Point, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Post Pierces Motorist
SYDNEY: Laurie Norris, 22, of Wilberforce-rd., North Richmond, was pierced in the chest by a safety fence post which was forced through the bonnet of his car in an accident at Kurrajong Heights. Norris and another man were…
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SYDNEY.—Ambulance officers crawled under a train at Petersham Railway Station to-day to treat Hedley Victor…
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BERLIN, Jan. 25. A.A.P.— Two coaches containing German passengers were detached from a British military train that was detained at…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday—William Michael Ford, 33, labourer, of Parkside, was killed when his motor-cycle skidded about 200yd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Injured In Motor Smash
Leon McLeod, 20, of Bruce St., Cook's Hill, and Beryl Dewey, 17, of Corlette St., Cook's Hill, were seriously injured when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters to Editor Trap for Motorists
Since I am a comparative stranger to this city, some friends decided that I should see Newcastle at night. On our way from…
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Greater Newcastle Works Committee will recommend that Curley-road and a lane between Australia and Brown Roads, Broadmeadow,…
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The Director of Works and Housing (Mr. W. Mehaffey) has advised Kearsley Shire Council that Federal funds would be…
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The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Cahill) has advised Kearsley Shire Council that the Government has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ask for Bigger Share of Road Tax
Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided last night to ask local politicians to seek a bigger share of the petrol tax for local government…
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The road through the aerodrome has been closed, with the result that Pokolbin residents visiting Cessnock have to take a roundabout…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—When a car ran off the road near Apollo Bay and crashed down an embankment late last night. Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queensland Railway Strike Threat
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A meeting of the combined railway unions to-day decided that, unless their claims for marginal increases…
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