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

Railways, roads & transport, 1945

394 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 20

Not Enough Tramway Men on Releases

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Tramway men said to-day that the release of 100 former tram and busmen from the army Would not help transport problems…

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Lost Child Found in Train at Moss Vale

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 2

A five-year-old boy who was missing on Thursday night last, was found later in the Riverina Express at Mo[?]…

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Noise Like a Saw in Wood And the Big Bridge Slipped Out of Sight

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: Collapse of Ludendorff Bridge, across the Rhine at Ramagen, was as sensational as its capture, says the Daily Express correspondent…

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Tram and Bus Strike Threat

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY: Tram and bus employees decided yesterday to stop all and bus services for 24 hours next week-end unless all racing…

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Blessing to Motorists

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 19 March 1945 · page 3

That heavy shale oil is going out of fashion among motorists as a substitute fuel is hailed by the chief engineer of the N.R.M.A…

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Germans Claim the Bridge

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 March 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: Berlin radio is now claiming that a German suicide pilot wrecked the Remagen bridge…

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Five-year-old From Yass Has Train Ride to Moss Vale

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 March 1945 · page 2

When Barry Good, aged five years, elected to take a train ride instead of going to school last Friday, he did not realise what trouble he was going to Cause his parents and the Moss Vale police. So far as his parents were aware he was at school all…

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Tramway Men to Meet Again

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 March 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: A special meeting of the Tramway and Busmen's Union has been convened for Friday morning to consider the…

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Crookwell Shire General Rate Now 3d IN £ Engineer's By-roads Maintenance Plan Adopted Important Road Works Listed

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 4

Crs. King and McIntosh last Wednesday fought the last round against the proposed increase of the general rate from 2d to 3d in the £ u.o.v. and against the adoption of the Engineer's recommendation, which provides for…

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Nine Hurt in Tram Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY: Nine persons were injured in a collision between two trams on Broadway yesterday and one of them, Miss Bertha…

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Special Meeting Called by Tram and Bus Employees

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 1

The proposed one-day strike of trim and bus employees in Sydney and Newcatle on Saturday will probably be called off at a special…

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Severed Artery in Arm—Accident to Train Passenger

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 2

Travelling in the express from Albury last night, a poacher had the misfortune to caver au artery in his left arm…

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Goulburn Motor Funerals

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 3

Goulburn Motor Funerals is now under the new management, and under the personal supervision of Mr. Jack Hardy, Attention is called to…

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Easter Motoring

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 2

The N.R.M.A. advises motorists that the current issue. of petrol ration tickets must be converted into petrol by March 31. The…

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Over the Rhine Spectacular Step on Road To Final Victory Crossings Are Ahead of Schedule

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 March 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Monday: The steady consolidation of the British and American northern bridgehead against stiffening resistance, a new offensive from the Remagen bridgehead with a general six-mile advance, fresh crossings by the Third Army…

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Goulburn As Railway Centre Growth During the War

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 March 1945 · page 1

"As far as Goulburn is concerned, it always will be important and is now more important than it was relatively before the war. It has a very big district and during the war has grown to become, in my opinion, the foremost…

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Railway Workers and War Loan

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 March 1945 · page 3

War Loan speakers were faced with an unusual problem on Friday last. Driver Whiting was addressing members of the Locomotive Department outside the gates, and telling them of his experiences in New Guinea, when…

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Train for High School Students

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 1

The Secretary for Railways had notified the Minister for Lands Mr. Tully, that arrangements have been made for No. 9 mixed…

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Secondary Roads New Maintenance System

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 6

Text of the Engineer's report and recommendations (around which has centred so much discussion and opposition) was published in our issue…

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New By-roads Maintenance Plan End of Separate Riding Accts. Change Opposed by Crs. McIntosh and King

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 March 1945 · page 3

Deferred from the previous meeting pending the fate of Council's application to the Governor for consent to increasing the general rate by one penny in the £ u.c.v. -- which consent was given -- the question of adoption or otherwise of the Shire Engineer's plan for the reorganisation…

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