Countess Died On Train
NEW YORK, Tues. (AAP) —The Countess Dorothy Di Frasso, a few hours before she died yesterday, said to…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1954
1,338 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 67
Goods Train Crashes Into Trolly
A goods train travelling between Oakhampton and Telarah, on the North Coast line, struck a flat top trolly on the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Toll charges on Peat's Ferry Bridge across the Hawkesbury River would be lifted within a few…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday.—A railwayman was thrown from a motor tricycle to the line when he was hit by a heavy gauge…
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AUCKLAND, Jan. 5. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Tangiwai has become a place of pilgrimage. Thousands have flocked to the…
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LONDON, Jan, 5. A.A.P.— The Nuffield Organistion denied last night that the Austin Hereford engine was to…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— A glitter near the pantograph of a second-class railway carriage led to the discovery of…
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LONDON, Jan. 5.—London transport authorities are pleased that they scrapped the city's trams. Results have been greatly improved…
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LONDON, Wed. (AAP). —Standard Motor Company chief, Sir John Black, who was hurt in a sports…
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SYDNEY.—More than 21,000 passengers travelled on Sunday train tours during 1953, the Commissioner…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6. A.A.P. —The Countess Dorothy Di Frasso said to the actor, Clifton Webb and a friend: "I…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.— There were 20,131 road accidents in Australia in the three months to the end of…
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LONDON, Jan. 6. A.A.P. —Sir John Black, chief of the Standard Motor Company, yesterday announced his…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.— A grass fire which swept 10 acres at Essendon aerodrome this morning was checked when…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.). —Ice or snow gripped virtually every road in England last night…
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LONDON. — The tramp, tramp of countless prisoners in Winson Green Gaol, Birmingham, gradually…
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PALMERSTON NORTH, Jan. 7.—The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh spent one of the happiest and most in formal days of their New Zealand tour to-day. They travelled by train…
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John Doel, 40, of the Cartoola, had his left arm frac[?]red, scalp lacerated and left wrist dislocated when he was…
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LONDON, Jan. 8. A.A.P.— Ice or snow gripped virtually every road in England last night. The north and the…
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CANBERRA, Friday.The Snowy Mountain Hydro-Electric Authority this week put into operation a 120-ton…
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