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Blue Mountains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1921

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Starting Level The Tramway Question Another Meeting

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 13 May 1921 · page 2

Another meeting to discuss the possibilities and probabilities of a tramway system for Katoomba, was held on Monday night at the Town…

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Civic Activities Destructive Motors Report on Impounding

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 3

Ald. Dash (Mayor) presided over Tuesday's meeting of the Katoomba Town Council. War Trophies in Public Schools…

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Katoomba Trams Another Stage Reached

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 3

In compliance with the decision arrived at by the public meeting recently held under the chamber of Commerce on the…

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Motor Fatality Popular Commercial Killed Others Seriously Injured

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 20 May 1921 · page 4

Big motor smash here. Freddie Clark killed instantly; others injured. The above urgent message reached…

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Good Roads Loan Appeal to Motorists

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 May 1921 · page 8

Mr. Lang, State Treasurer stated the other day that he was asking the officials of various organisations interesting in good roads to make a…

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Money and Material for the Shire Roads

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 May 1921 · page 2

President Savage tabled the following minute, at Wednesday's meeting, which was enthusiastically adopted by his active colleague:—…

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Main Road Problem The Only Way Engineers Solution

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 3

Engineer Swindlehurst submitted the following report on that portion of the Main Western Road within the Blackheath Municipality:"I…

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Getting Together For Railway Improvements Deputation at Lawson

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 4

At the conclusion of general business, at Tuesday's meeting of the B.M.S.C., Cr. Chapman introduced a deputation , including…

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Holding the Hills Down Antiquated Railway Service Big Push Imminent

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 June 1921 · page 1

It does not need a very intimate knowledge of Mountains conditions to realise the fact that the one big factor which has retarded the proper…

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Those Awful Roads! Warialda Street Banks Council Evades Noose

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 June 1921 · page 3

Alterations in the levels of Warialda Street, consequent on work recently curried out their, and about which some lively interchanges…

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Motorists and Mud Skidding to Sydney Two Men in a Car

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 June 1921 · page 3

As the train ate up the miles between Sydney and Melbourne on the Victorian side of the border recently, the faces of two of the passengers…

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Railway Improvements Hard Word to Commissioner Some Time in July

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 1 July 1921 · page 1

At the conclusion of Wednesday's Shire Council meeting representatives of the Blue Mountains Railway Improvements League got together…

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Roads and Red Tape Katoomba Must Wait Start Next Year

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 July 1921 · page 1

When a letter from the State Superannuation Board, stating that loan money was available, was read at last Tuesday's meeting of the…

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The Eternal Query Mayor Puts It Again Bathurst Road Nightmare

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 8 July 1921 · page 1

"Where are you going to get the money from?" If anyone can satisfactorily answer the above query made by Mayor…

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A Glenbrook Road. Divided Local Opinion

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 3

Blue Mountains Shire Council had before it, at Wednesday's meeting, a letter from the Glenbrook Progress Association, concerning a road…

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Railway Improvements

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 3

Tho following, comprising representatives of the B.M. Shire, Katoomba and Blackheath Municipalities, Katoomba and Leura Chamber of…

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Railways and the Blud Mountains Subject of Wide and Vital Importance The Proposed Railways Deputation

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 8

Sir,—In the history of the progress of N.S.w., two years stand out prominently, 1815, the year of the foundation of Bathurst, and 1855…

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National Roads Mountains Branch Moving

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 July 1921 · page 5

A mooting of the provisional committee of the Blue Mountains branch of the National Roads Association was held in the Council Chamber…

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"Railway Crash" Deputation Hits Dead End Commissioner Uninjured

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 22 July 1921 · page 5

Eleven proposals were placed before the Railway Commissioners by the Mountains deputation which travelled to Sydney yesterday…

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Town Council The Roads Problem

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 29 July 1921 · page 3

Kutoomba Council held its adjourned meeting on Friday afternoon last, when Mayor Dash presided over a council comprising Aldermen…

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