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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 3 of 33

Abuse of Motor Vehicles

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 6

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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Competing with Railways Brings £20 Fine

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 11

An Abbotsford man. Lioyd Charles Clough was fined £20 with l2/ court costs on a charge of carrying goods in…

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Railway Institute Examination

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 2

Results of the annual shorthand examination for 1953, conducted by the Railway Institute, South…

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Four Killed on Roads

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--Four people lost their lives in accidents in N.S.W. during the week-end…

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Royal Train In Test Run

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--The Royal train which Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will use on their…

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Train Hit Lorry

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 1

BELGRADE, Mon.--Six persons were killed and 17 seriously injured when a passenger train hit a lorry…

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Train Soldiers As Farmers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 3

CEYLON.--Ceylon Army personnel are to be given a vocational training in rice cultivation, it was…

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60 Killed in Train Smash

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 1

SEOUL, Mon.--A passenger train crashed into a Korean army train between Suwon and Oran, about 15…

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Train Smash Hero May Meet Queen

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Mon. --Tangiwai train disaster her Cyril Ellis to-day accepted an annonymous…

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On The Bridge Of The Gothic

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 3

Miles off the coastline yesterday, the salutations of the Australian people were conveyed to the Queen and her husband as they travelled in the Gothic. They are seen here on the bridge of the ship which was described yesterday as appearing like a big white swan between the Sydney Heads…

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Train Derailed

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--An electric train was derailed at St. James Station at the peak hour to-day…

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Bridge Lights Being Broken

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 5

A complaint has been made to the Grafton police by the Northern Rivers County Council that…

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McDOWELL'S Hill Road for Sealing

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 3

It is understood that work of rebuilding and tar-sealing about 3/4 mile of the road at McDowell's Hill will be…

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Motor Spirit, Kerosene Cheaper To-day

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs. -- Prices of motor spirit and lighting kerosene will be reduced by ½d per gallo[?] throughout…

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Train Crash

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 4

LONDON, Fri.--Six persons were injured, one seriously, when the famous express, the Royal Scot,…

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Casino Road "Excellent"

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 3

"EVERY effort is being made to put the Grafton-Casino road in good order for handling the…

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Police Search For Motorist

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 3

Police last night were seraching for an alleged hit-run motorist in the Grafton district…

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Glen Innes Road Incident

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 2

Investigations into a report of an accident on the Glen Innes road near South Grafton have satisfied the…

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Road Chief's Warning On Congestion

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 2

Delays, running into hours, could be occasioned travellers at Harwdod ferry to-morrow and…

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Railway Concession Ceases On

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 2

Concession rates on the railways for the carriage of fodder for starving stock within the Clarence district…

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