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Blue Mountains · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1923

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Cost of Railways Work of Mr. Fraser

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 29 June 1923 · page 2

Chief Commissioner fraser has issued a pamphlet, "The Railways of New south Wales," being an analysis of results for the year, 1922,…

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Main Roads Movement Shire Council Acting

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 6 July 1923 · page 6

The Shire Association of N.S.W. is circularising Shire Councils in an effort to enlist co-operation in certain proposed action concerning the…

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Motorists use Footpaths Council to Prosecute

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 13 July 1923 · page 7

In common with other Mountain towns, Lawson is frequently threatened with the menace of the road hag, At Wednesday's meeting of…

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Record Motor Trip Hair-raising Climbs Precipices and Rivers

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 13 July 1923 · page 1

The following graphic account of a motor trip from Picton to Wentworth Falls via Burragorang Valley, over a little-used and extremely…

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New Railway Commissioners

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 13 July 1923 · page 4

The Railway Commissioners term of seven years expires with the current year, and interest is beginning to centre about the probable personnel of the new appointments to be made by Cabinet. The question hus already been discussed by the metropolitan press under the guise…

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Mcdlow Road

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 July 1923 · page 3

Travellers between Katoomba and Mcdlow are lend in their praise of that [?] of the Maid Rond which, until recently, was the worst…

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The Shire's Burden Maintaining Main Roads to Fight the Railways

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 July 1923 · page 7

The increase of the abnormally heavy motor-lorry traffic passing over the Main Western Road between Sydney and Bathurst and…

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Railway Fatality Level Crossing's Further Toll

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 27 July 1923 · page 2

Once more the level crossing has claimed its toll, this time at Parkes. The circumstance, as reported in the daily press, is without detail, but the…

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Motorists in Trouble P.M. on Absent Defendants

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 August 1923 · page 1

Driving without a headlight on his car after sunset was the charge to which William Frolander pleaded guilty before P.M. Helm on…

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Trials of Motor Cars

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 August 1923 · page 5

On Sunday evening, when the snow full had expended itself, leaving a layer of fully six to eight inches on the ground, there were few…

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Megalong Road

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 2

AS the result of the appeal made by "The Bulletin" to the Blue Mountain Shire authority to improve the Magalong Road, in order that…

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The Railways And the Tramways Who Carries the Baby?

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 8

A resolution of the Randwick Council was received at the Shire Council meeting on Monday, to the effect that "owing to the great…

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British Made Special Type Motor

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 3

The Young Co-operative Roller Flour Mill Co. some time ago owing to the unsatisfactory operation of their Stone Plant as well as the high…

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Main Roads Provisions of 1923 ACT

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 24 August 1923 · page 5

The Main Roads Development Act, 1923, came into operation on the first of this month, a copy of the regulations of which came by mail…

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The Bridge Fund

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 31 August 1923 · page 8

Dear Sir.—A your or so ago a fund of £75 was raised at Hazelbrook for the purpose of constructing a foot-bridge about aquarter of…

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Cycle Road Race

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 31 August 1923 · page 1

On Saturday afternoon the Lithgow League Cycling Club held its first important road race, over a course from Lithgow to Blackheath…

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Alleged False Pretences Sale of Manly Garage Motor Man Committed

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 7 September 1923 · page 7

At the Katoomba Police Court on Wednesday, before P.M. Holm, Charles Leslie Gordon Austin, of Leichhardt, was charged with having obtained money by false…

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Linking Up! Proposed New Road

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 21 September 1923 · page 3

The following article, of great interest to the Blue Mountains, is called from last Thursday's issue of the "Hawkesbury Herald." It is…

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Bye-Roads Versus Spur Railways

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 28 September 1923 · page 7

In connection with a movement initiated by the National Roads association to urge the Government to substitute the construction of…

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Perpetual Motion Main Western Road Insatiable Pot Holes

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 28 September 1923 · page 3

The Katoomba Council works committee recently inspected the eastern section of the Main Western Road. They found it in the same…

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