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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

649 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 33

Motor Accident At Tyndale

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 3

MACLEAN, Fri.--At 2.30 this afternoon a collision occurred on the Pacific Highway at Tyndale,…

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Royal Train Has Trial Run

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--The Royal train was given a successful trial on the southern line yesterday morning when it…

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Car Capsizes On Woodburn Road

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 2

MACLEAN, Sun. -- On Saturday afternoon a party of Lismore surf lifesavers met with a mishap on the…

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Motor Cyclists Fined

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 4

Two young Grafton motor cyclists were fined at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for unlawfully…

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Fell From Bridge

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 3

CASINO, Wed.--A Grafton man was seriously injured when he fell from Casino's Irving bridge…

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Road Grant For Copmanhurst

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 3

The Department of Main Roads yesterday advised the Copmanhurst Shire Council of approval of the 1954 trunk roads maintenance and improvement…

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Big Train Smash

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3

KARACHI, Thurs--Between 50 and 100 people are reported to have been killed in a train smash…

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Cyclists Dislike New Road

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

KEMPSEY -- Kempsey police told the Municipal Council they had no power to force cyclists to ride on…

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Road Grant Of £6168 For Orara

Daily Examiner · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 4

Orara Shire Council was yesterday advised by the Department of Main Roads of a road grant of £6168…

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Abuse of Motor Vehicles

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 10

The N.R.M.A. engineers here list some of the common forms of abuse of motor vehicles. Overspeeding when new—…

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Killed Under Train

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY, Fri.--A man charged with driving the Blue Mountains Express while under the influence of…

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To Urge Work On Armidale Road

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 6

Nymboida Shire Council, on the motion of Cr. C. W. Reid and Cr. D. A. G. Page, will make representations to…

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Struck By Train

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.--A 77year-old patient of Liverpool State Hospital died today after being struck by…

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Motor Cyclist injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 2

On Saturday night Lindsay Thomas Reilly, 19, of 12 Maud Street. Grafton, went to the Grafton…

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Railways Want Raw Milk

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 2

KEMPSEY. -- Macleay Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. received a surprise when ft tendered for the supply…

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Golf Course Road To Be Dedicated

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 2

South Grafton Municipal Council will apply for that part of the road leading to the Grafton Golf Club…

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Broke Leg In Jump From Motor Cycle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 2

MURWILLUMBAH, Tues.--A New Australian who thought that the motor cycle on which he was a…

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Pontoon Leak In Hobart Bridge

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 3

HOBART, Thursday.--A leak in one of the pontoons of Hobart's pontoon bridge over the Derwent River…

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Boy Killed in Fall From Urunga Bridge

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

A 13-year-old Urunga boy was killed on Wednesday afternoon when he fell from a pylon on the Urunga bridge…

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Banana Loadings On B.G.F. Train 4A

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 6

North Coast growers consigned 19,957 cases of bananas, to southern markets on BGF train 4A, which picked up at Coffs…

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