Car Off Road; Man Hurt
Leo Smith, 19, of Clarencetown, suffered a probable fracture of the pelvis and probable internal injuries, and shock, when his car ran…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
1,126 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 57
14 Killed in Train Smash
GALI (Colombia), Jan. 1. A.A.P.—Fourteen persons were killed when a train hit a bus which had stalled on a railway line near Gali…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Ghost" Train Was: Only Runaway
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.)—Railway staffs and travellers on the platforms or three London stations stared…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car Crashes Over Bridge Safety Fence
Two men escaped serious injury when a sedan car crashed through the safety fence at Regent-street overbridge in Maitland yesterday…
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A new bridge is being built across the Thames to the site of the 1951 Festival of Britain, alongside Waterloo Bridge, to relieve…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Transfer Of Road Work Opposed
Lake Macquarie Shire Council will recommend to the Joint Coal Board that it continue with a plan to reconstruct and tar seal…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The record road toll of 627 killed and 10,000 injured on New South Wales roads in 1950 has caused a stepping-up in the road safety campaign…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1950 a Year of "Unparalleled Road Violence," Says Shoebridge
SYDNEY: Nineteen-fifty was a year of unparalleled violence on the roads, the Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. A. Shoebridge) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Point Fault Causes Train Delay
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Hundreds of peak-hour travellers were delayed for 15 minutes by a point failure at Wynyard Station to-night…
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The Department of Main Roads advised Lower Hunter Shire Council today that £6405 was available to meet its share…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Dies After Road Collision
ARMIDALE, Tuesday.—A woman died in Inverell Hospital to-day following a collision last night in which she and three other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EDITORIAL Public Apathy Toward Road Safety
WHAT would be the reaction of the nation if across the front pages there was spread the dire news that a thriving town of 600 or 700 people—the Hunter Valley has a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sharp Drop In U.S. Holiday Road Deaths
NEW YORK, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—A total of 281 people were killed in motor-car accidents over the three-day New Year's holiday in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy's Curiosity Nearly Wrecks Three Trams
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Three trams were damaged to-night because cause a seven-year-old boy pulled a lever out of curiosity…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Harbor Bridge Tram Collision
SYDNEY: City-bound tram traffic was held up for half an hour early today when one tram crashes into the rear of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Tax Reduction
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The maximum road tax on goods carried in the southern division, between Sydney, Newcastle and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thaw Causes Chaos On U.K. Roads
LONDON, Jan. 3. A.A.P.—A heavy frost last night, after a partial thaw, caused the worst traffic chaos this winter, says Reuter…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A drover and a train guard were injured to-night when a steam engine collided with the guard's van of a stationary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Works Plan Being Prepared
The City Engineer (Mr. Baddeley) was preparing a schedule of road works for 1951 in order of priority, the Lord Mayor (Ald…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Three tramway employees, one a woman conductor, were injured in a collision between two trams on…
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