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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Railways, roads & transport
1,338 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 67
TRAGEDY.—This low aerial picture of the Imperial Palace at Tokio shows the huge crowd as it poured over the double bridge into the palace grounds on New Year's Day to pay their respects to the Emperor and Empress. In the melee 17 persons were trampled to death and 100 others injured. The deaths were caused by two immense crushes, described by police as "giant human sandwiches," when 500,000 Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →An engine failure at Wyee last night delayed a passenger train for nearly two hours. The train was due in Newcastle at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Fri., (O.S.R.): The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh today left Wellington in their gay, whistling train for a trip ever a mountain range…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Directors of McLeod, Kelso and Lee Holdings Ltd. have declared in interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A motor cyclist was admitted to Royal Newcastle Hospital early this morning in a serious condition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will cover about 20 miles on their Newcastle visit on February 9. This includes eight miles along city streets, circuits of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Jan. 17. A.A.P. —Air-conditioned trains with radios in every compartment will run direct between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Royal train was given a successful trial on the southern line yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Arson Squad detectives arrested a 39-year-old woman to-day and charged her on two counts of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON. Jan. 17. A.A.P. —The oldest railway station in Europe—Allee Verte in Brussels—closed down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WELLINGTON, Jan. 18. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A young woman was injured when a 13-carriage train, with an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A 60-years-old man was killed when he fell from a sleeping compartment window of the Sydney-bound…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Percy Amos, 63, of Princess-street, Morpeth, was injured when a car went off the road between Glenoak and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The retail price of motor lubricating oil will be reduced by 1d a pint from to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—An attractive New South Wales Royal tour guide souvenir has been produced by the N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thomas Winterton, 60, of Anstey-street, Lismore, was fatally injured yesterday when he fell from the window of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle City Council will presc for an early start on thes Howe-street bridge road diversion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Royal train would not stop at Gosford on its way to Newcastle on February 9 a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A man and youth, who were victims of separate motor-cycle accidents in Newcastle district at the week-end,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If Newcastle Council had been the only authority concerned in removing the bad traffic hazard caused by the low level railway bridge at Lambton the job would have been completed long ago, the Lord…
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