11 Injured In Train Smash
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Eleven people were injured, one seriously, when the Gympie Express crashed into the rear of a crowded suburban train at Eagle Junction Station…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
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No Change In Swansea Bridge Plan
The Minister for Transport (Mr. Sheahan) has advised Newcastle Associated Chambers of Commerce that provision would not be made…
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Plans for the new Swansea road bridge will not be amended to provide for four lines of traffic instead of the proposed two. In a letter to the Newcastle…
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SYDNEY—Closed since June, following 25 inches of rain in 24 hours, the Glenreagh-Dorrigo branch railway…
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SYDNEY: The salvaging of the British motorship Palana (11,063 tons) off Mackay (North Queensland) is becoming a race against time. Wireless messages intercepted in Sydney today revealed…
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LONDON: Despite the U.K. motor car industry's emphasis on exports, the number of motor vehicles on the roads of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Federal Government should introduce a scheme to train civilians for the building industry, the Executive…
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LONDON.—Mr. Alfred Webber, of High Town, Ringwood, a motor-cyclist, was killed and his pillion passenger, Mr. L…
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Eight people were killed in road accidents at the week-end, including five in Victoria. A man was fatally injured in a level-crossing smash in…
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Alexander Reid, 71, of Martin's Creek, was found dead under Gostwyck traffic bridge about 8.15 on Saturday night…
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J. Sandford broke the course record in Maitland Cycle Club's five-mile road race on Saturday. His time was 11min. 9sec…
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Kevin House, 23, of Queen's road. Tighe's Hill, painter, was fatally injured when he fell from the overhead bridge at Wickham…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—A 17-year-old youth who was being escorted from Mackay to Stewart's Creek gaol, near Townsville, jumped from…
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A youth was so badly injured when he struck a girder after falling 25 feet from Speers Point Park-Teralba footbridge yesterday…
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LONDON, Jan. 7. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Following in the footsteps of his chauffeur-father, Graham Goodbarne, 9, of Bexley (Kent),…
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SYDNEY.—A young man who was fined £12 at Kogarah Court last Tuesday for three traffic breaches with a motor…
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MADRID, Jan. 8. A.A.P.—A 21-year-old senorita pushed her way on to a crowded tram and Smacked a boy who knocked her…
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An air-conditioned passenger train between Armidale and Sydney would make a trial run to-day, passing through Maitland at…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The names of eight applicants selected to enter the Department of External Affairs as diplomatic cadets…
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ADELAIDE.—Two brothers. Alec Turnbull, of William St., Ashfield. Sydney, and Hugh Turnbull, of Norwood (S.A.),…
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