Coalfields Seeks Flood-Free Road
Kearsley Shire Council last night agreed to a request by Cessnock Council to be represented on a deputation to the…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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£10,060 Road Grant To Port Shire
The Department of Main Roads will grant Port Stephens Shire Council up to £10,060 towards the council's works programme estimate of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kearsley To Spend £13,605 On Heavy Road Plant
The Kearsley Shire Council will purchase heavy road plant, estimated by the Assistant Engineer (Mr. G. Spence) to cost £13,605. This was decided at a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Family On Railways For 102 Years
LONDON: The stationmaster at Stratford, E., Mr. Alan Langston, aged 60, retired recently after 45 years with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pay Rise For U.K. Railway Workers
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.). — Most British railway workers are to get an average pay rise of five per cent., to cost a total…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Train Time Changed
From Sunday the 5.26 p.m. train from Toronto to Newcastle will leave Toronto at 5.15 p.m. and run earlier throughout, the Railways…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scene of grim disaster—Train smash which killed 83 people
SEARCHLIGHTS cast an eerie glow over the wreckage of a passenger train which was derailed in the peak-hour near Woodridge (New Jersey) on February 6. Police and ambulance men worked all night searching among the wreckage for bodies. The death role was 83 and scores were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Winsor Defends Railways
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Railway freight trucks last year spent 34 per cent. of their time carrying coal at an unprofitable rate, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sunday Bus To Meet Train Sought
Warner's Bay Progress Association decided to ask the Transport Department to allocate a bus on Sundays to meet the train from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Constable Hurt In Road Accident
Constable First Class W. Pike was thrown to the road when his motor-cycle outfit and a bus collided in Brunker-road, Broadmeadow,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£151,958 Budget For Road Works
The 1951 estimates of Newcastle City Council provide for a total expenditure of £151,958 on road works. The estimates, recommended…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tradesmen 'Will Not Use' Highfields-road
Brisbane Water-road, at Highfields, was so bad that tradesmen would not use it, it was stated at a meeing of Highfields…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Claim On Railways
Arnold Charles Jackson, bridge carpenter, of Watson-street, Mayfield, at Newcastle District Court yesterday, claimed damages from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Club Swim By Tram Men
Mr. Leo Sewell carves his way through the water in the Tramway Amateur Swimming Club handicap at Newcastle Ocean Baths yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Convictions Of Motorists Lifted
SYDNEY.—Four motorists I who appealed against convictions of driving while under the influence of liquor had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Egyptian Plan For Desert Road
Egypt plans to develop the sandy wastes on either side of the thin tarmac ribbon of road that runs for more than 150 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Rise In 1950 Road Toll
SYDNEY.—A startling deterioration in the N.S.W. road accident position is disclosed by the final figures for 1950,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Contempt Fine For U.S. Railway Union
WASHINGTON, Mon. (AAP)—The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen pleaded guilty today to contempt of court in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£30,000 Rutherford Aerodrome Plan
The Minister for Civil Aviation is to be approached by Maitland City Council for a grant of £30,000 to provide a first-class commercial airport at Rutherford…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Toll Soars
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Road accidents rose sharply last year compared with 1949, according to final figures released by the Road…
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