Increase For Richmond Vale Railway Men
Increases to locomotive enginemen, guards and firemen on the Richmond Vale railway were granted by the Chairman of the Central…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1950
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Letters To The Editor Trams Transfer
IN preparation for the transfer of the tram system on the Merewether Beach and Glebe lines to a bus service, at each tram stop the…
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Ordinary bus and tram timetables to the Newcastle Show would be augmented, the District Superintendent of Road Transport (Mr. W. Owens) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Progress Bodies Want Railway Electrification
The County of Northumberland Council of Progress Associations last night decided to invite delegates from the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lake Road Body Refuses To Meet Minister
The Lake Road Progress Association decided last night "not to waste its time" by making further approaches to the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →50,000 Attended Exhibition On Road Safety
Newcastle people had learned a great deal from the Road Safety Council's exhibition in the City Hall, the Secretary of the council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ian Healy's Suburbia, This Week At Kilaben Bay: "Mother Dug The Road"
As heavily as a pair of overfed ducks, the Sunderlands sat down on Kilaben Bay. The men who had been in them went ashore, and the flying boats, tied to red buoys, were left bobbing about like decoys on a lagoon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bus and Tram Services For Newcastle Show
The District Superintendent of Road Transport and Tramways (Mr. Owens) yesterday gave details of bus and tram timetables for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Struck By Motor-Cycle
Struck by a motor-cycle at Adamstown last night, Mrs. Mary Waters, 61, of Glebe-road, Adamstown, suffered concussion, lacerated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railways "Not Able to Stand Wage Losses"
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Railways could not be regarded as business undertakings able to afford financial losses incurred by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lake Road Land Owners To Meet
Lake Road Progress Association will call a meeting of property owners on Lake, Jubilee and Reservoir Roads to consider the effect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trams' Removal "Government's Biggest Error"
The decision of the Government and Transport Department to remove Newcastle's trams was the biggest mistake ever made for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motor Cyclist Injured
A motor cyclist, injured when his cycle skidded after striking a pothole in Hobart Rd., New Lambton, early this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Pushed in Front of Train
A surge of school children pushed 13-year-old Margaret Ellis of High-st., Branxton, on to the railway line at Maitland Station yesterday afternoon as a train was approaching the platform…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£2000 Grant to Restore Road
The Joint Coal Board advised Maitland Council last night of its approval, in principle, of an ex-gratia payment not exceeding £2000 to restore the surface of Louth Park road…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fence On Wharf-road Recommended
Provision of a safety fence to make a footpath along Wharf-road was recommended by Newcastle City Council Works Committed last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Special Train At Easter For North Coast
The Railway Department has arranged for a special train to run from Newcastle to the North Coast at Easter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spare Parts Short; Delay Road Works
The blame put on machinery breakdowns, which caused slowness in some road and amenity works, was not misplaced, the Engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Racing At Wallsend Not Approved
Applications by Newcastle League Cycling Club and Newcastle Amateur Cycling Club for permission to conduct races in Cowper-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Year's Motoring Progress—With Some Pain
Australia's motoring historians will devote vote a chapter to 1949-50 and, no doubt, will describe it as a period of considerable frustration, with some progress at the expense of much…
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