Model Train for the Show
The model train, shown annually at Newcastle Show, is given a polish and check for the show beginning this week. Mechanics…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1949
1,422 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 72
"Strangers" Leave Train To Marry "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—A 23-year-old marine and a 19-year-old girl boarded the same transcontinental train in San…
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GOSFORD, Sunday—Christopher Allington, 50, railway fettler, of Brooklyn, who was hit by a train at Wondabyne railway station on…
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A public meeting held in Ash Island School decided to ask the Department of Main Roads to keep the old Ash Island bridge in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Petrol Floods Railway Lines; Trains Halted
SYDNEY, Monday. — Hornsby fire engines were called to wash railway lines clear of petrol after a semi-trailer loaded with…
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The Northern District's Flying 220 Yards Open Championship will be held at Wallarobba airstrip on Sunday, March 6…
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Subject to work been completed to the satisfaction of the Civil Aviation Department, an "S" class licence covering the use of the…
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Three people were injured yesterday when hit by road vehicles. Struck by a car at the "corner of King and Steel Streets, Newcastle,…
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NEWCASTLE'S destiny as a wool centre is bound up with the completion of the Sandy Hollow-Maryvale railway line…
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THE SOUTH Maitland private railway line extends from East Greta Junction, just outside West Maitland, to Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor trading in the Newcastle district is an important industry—and on the brink of great expansion. Motor Trade Getting Back On Feet
To-day, the motor industry is getting back on its feet again after the severe buffeting it received in the war years. Few people are aware of the…
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No special trams will run to the Showground for the Show, but there will be extra buses…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Robert James Lamb, 76, pensioner, of Randwick, died in a crowded tram on his way to the city this…
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REFUGEES from advancing Chinese Communist armies set up makeshift housekeeping in Shanghai's North Station. These Nationalist soldiers from the Nanking garrison were retreating with their families southward to Canton…
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Special trams would run from the city to the Newcastle Showground during the show, the Transport Department announced yesterday…
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The strike by salaried officers of South Maitland Railways today prevented work at six northern coal mines. How ever, representatives of the officers at a compulsory conference in Sydney agreed to recommend resumption of work. The coal situation became,…
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Motorists do not deliberately kill people on the roads, but surely the inadequate penalties imposed on drunken drivers…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Eleven people were injured when trams collided at Forest Lodge this morning…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The State Council of the Australian Railways Union to-day telegraphed the Federal Attorney-General (Dr…
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. A.A.P. —No specific claims on behalf of Australian war prisoners who were forced to work on the…
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