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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1938

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New Road Through Rockies

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 6

Big engineering problems are being overcome in the building of a new motor highway through the Canadian Rockies…

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Sweden's Railway Beauty

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 5

The State Railway executive of Sweden takes pride in being the leading landscape-gardener of the land…

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Railway Time Tables and Fares

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 1

Passenger train leaves Sydney on Mondays to Fridays at 5.21 p.m., arriving at Goulburn 9.58 p.m. Passengers, other than those holding…

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Wider Roads

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 3

LONDON: A proposed road-widening scheme will wipe out half the picturesque old village of Preston, near Faversham, Kent, but the inhabitants…

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Tallong Road Engineer to Report

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 7

A letter from the department, referring to the road from Bundanoon to Barber's Creek awoke several of the councillors to action…

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Trams to Go

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 2

Durban: Durban's (South Africa) trams are doomed, and, at a cost of half a million pounds, will be replaced by buses. In the future the entire…

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From Everywhere injured Motor Cyclist Dies

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 4 January 1938 · page 4

Injured Motor Cyclist Dies. Carl Muller, 22, of Rosemont, died in the Bulli Hospital yesterday afternoon of injuries suffered when his…

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Woman Killed by Train

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The driver of an electric train passing through the tunnel between the Harbour Bridge and Wynyard Station yesterday…

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On the Road More for Driving Tests

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 6

Applicants for driving tests in England continue to increase week by week over last year. Compared with corresponding weeks of 1936, recent…

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Bungendore to Captain's Flat Railway Construction To Start At Early Date

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: An early start is to be made with the construction of the new railway line from Bungendore to Captain's Flat, which will connect the rich ore deposits of the, Lake George Mine at Captain's Flat with the railway system of the Stat? The…

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Urgent Need for Bridge

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 3

"This bridge is urgently needed, as it provides the connecting link between Bathurst and Goulburn." So spoke Cr. J. J. Walsh, in moving…

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Bungendore to Captain's Flat Railway Construction to Start at Early Date Sydney

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 6

An early start is to be made with the construction of the new railway line from Bungendore to Captain's Flat, which…

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Road Safety

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 4

It is too soon yet to say whether or not the set. of a limit to speed on motor vehicles is to prove successful. The fatal accidents…

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Restriction on Clubs: Road Cycling Races

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Police Traffic Department, it is understood, has decided that in future no cycling races will be permitted on highways where the 30 miles an hour limit applies. The decision has perturbed the Newcastle Club…

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Child Killed Thrown From Sulky on Bevendalerye Park Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 2

Ronald Charles Noakes, age 3 was killed instantly on Saturday night, when he was thrown from a sulky on the…

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Fatal Seizure East Goulburn Man's Death Railway Officer

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 5

Collapsing in Auburn Street at about 11 o'clock on Saturday night, Mr. Henry Ernest Tooth, 48, of Emma Street, Goulburn, died while being…

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Two Hurt Motor Cycle Capsize

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

Two young men were injured when their motor cycle capsized on the Hume Highway near Goulburn on Saturday night, and the…

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Caught in Act Motor Car Thief Thwarted Owner's Chase

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 1

How a Goulburn motorist prevented the theft of his car and then chased and "arrested" the thief was related at the Goulburn…

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Main Roads Staff Change At Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 4

Mr. C. A. Hawkins, formerly supervising engineer in the Newcastle division of the Main Roads Department, has arrived in…

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On the Road Warning to Campers

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 6

Motor campers and picnickers are reminded by the N.R.M.A. that they must take care with camp fires, as they are required to comply with the…

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