"Sunday Busiest" On Roads
The N.R.M.A. expected its busiest day of the holidays on Sunday, when most holiday-makers would be retuning…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1954
1,338 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 67
Tree 'Grew' In Road
Some authority dug a hole in Sandgate-road, Birmingham Gardens, and left it roughly filled. An ironic citizen…
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GOSFORD, Thursday.—Two people were injured in a collision between two cars on Pacific Highway 12 miles…
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FOR the adventurous or the rebel against crowded holiday transport, for those who like the open road or for those just short of cash, a hitch-hiking holiday offers a ready solution…
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LONDON, Jan. 1. A.A.P. —The British Motor Corporation's car assembly and manufacturing plants in Sydney and…
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PARIS, Jan. 1. A.A.P. —"Mourners" wearing top hats and carrying wreaths boarded the last tram when…
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NEW DELHI, Jan. 3. A.A.P.—Eight people were killed and six injured in a head-on collision between a…
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OSLO (O.S.R.).—Canada has agreed for the next 18 months to train Norwegian Air Force pilots in…
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SYDNEY. — In 1953 707 people were killed in road accidents in N.S.W. compared with 700 in 1952…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—One death in week-end road accidents was reported in New South Wales yesterday…
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The driver of a lorry, John Eric Mantle, of King's-road, New Lambton, and a passenger had two remarkable escapes…
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One project which the State Government might be asked to take seriously in 1954 is the completion of…
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SYDNEY: A suburban train guard who told police he probably had more than 32 drinks on New Year's Eve was sent to gaol for three months at Newtown Court today. Walter Ernest Dowd, 27…
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SYDNEY: Deterioration of Sydney's tram tracks is causing the Transport Department concern. In his annual report…
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BERLIN, Jan. 4. A.A.P.— An express train was delayed for nearly a quarter of an hour at Ludwigshafen because…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for Transport (Mr. Wetherell) declined to-day to discuss the question of an open…
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WHEN THE Road Safety Council yesterday completed the tragic arithmetic of death on the highways for 1953 it was found that 707 men, women and children…
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An improved bus service in the North Lambton-Jesmond area would be considered if Seventh-street, Jesmond, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Guards Threaten Stop Royal Rail Crew Row
SYDNEY, Monday.—Controversy over the guard for the Royal train may lead to a stoppage by all railway guards in the Metropolitan area on February 3,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Superintendent of Motor Transport (Mr. Walsh) attributed 184 Sydney road accidents to trams…
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