Alleged Admission By Train Driver
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. A.A.P.—The driver of the passenger train which was derailed near Wood-bridge (New Jersey) on Tuesday…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1951
1,126 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 57
Offer on Road Damage
Mining companies had agreed to pay 2½d a ton a mile travelled as compensation for damage to roads used for emergency coal…
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Six people were killed and 81 injured in 240 road accidents in the Newcastle police sub-district in January…
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Considerable minor damaL was caused to all roads in the Lake Shire during the fortnight ended Jan. 28, the Engineer…
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Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night recommended that the Lorne-Fassifern road be classed as the access road to Newstan colliery…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The New South Wales Railways had an overall loss of £2,494,605 in 1949-50, despite an operational profit of £84,1,182, states the annual report, issued to-day…
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SYDNEY.—A tram pushed a truck 65 feet after they had crashed in Elizabeth St., City, during the morning peak hour…
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LONDON.—The Rev. Henry Gilbert, Vicar of Tolpuddle (Dorset), has been killed by a lorry on the…
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OTTAWA, Fri. (A.A.P.). — Nine persons were killed and 21 injured when a train and a bus collided near Sudbury…
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The Commissioner for Railways Mr. Garside) proposes to allot to Maitland travellers three first and six second-class seats on the…
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John Gallen, 20, of Elder-street, Lambton, was killed in a road accident in Tudor-street, Hamilton, early this morning…
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LONDON.—A doctor from the Miller General Hospital, Greenwich, knelt by the side of the railway line at New…
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A young man was seriously injured when he fell from his motor cycle at Congewai on the Cessnock-Congewai Road…
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LONDON, Feb. 12. A.A.P.—Twenty-five armed Polish partisans attacked and destroyed the luxurious "friendship train" that was…
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Four people were injured and one suffered severe shock when a utility truck and a lorry collided on the Pacific Highway, near Marks…
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If plans are approved tonight by Newcastle Council, work will begin on rehabilitating roads throughout the district next week. Last week the Finance and Works Committees approved…
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Without discussion Newcastle City Council last night adopted a Lord Mayoral minute recommending a strong approach to the…
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The £1 increase in the basic wage awarded in December, with its impost on the wages bill and effect on the cost of…
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The Joint Coal Board has informed Kaersley Shire Council that it is negotiating for funds from which a grant of £7000…
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A petition from 46 residents of Lambton-road, Broadmeadow, stating that there was a dust nuisance from the untarred section of the…
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