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

Railways, roads & transport, 1946

529 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 27

Goods Train Off the Line

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 3

MOREE: A goods train was detailed near the town this morning as a, result of washaways. The engine capsized, but the crew…

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Motor on Fire

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 6

Early on Friday evening the Fire Brigade received a call to Foley Bros. Verner Street, where an electric motor caught on fire…

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Boorowa and Young Approach Roads Cowra Council To Ta[?] Sections

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 4

When Cowra Council's weeks programme gets under way the Boorowa and Young roads will be tarred to the edge of the municipal boundary…

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Leaving Stones on the Road is a Dangerous Practice

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 1

The stifling heat over the holiday period, and the poor quality petrol available, brought about numerous impromptu waits on the mountain roads. That would not be so bad if the victims threw the stones used as wheel…

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Volume of Traffic Will Decide Classification of BoorowaBathurst Road

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 3

The possibility of declaring the Boorowa-Battiurst road a State Highway will depend on the volume of traffic and the development of the…

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Waugoola Shire to Co-operate Boorowa Proposal For Main Road Through Wyangala

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 2

Waugoola Shire Council will cooperate with Boorowa Shire Council in a proposal to ask the Deportment of Main Roads to have the main road…

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When Cars Come Back "God Help The Railways," Says Shire President

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 1

God help the Railway when cars are able to come back on the roads. They'll have plenty of space accomodation then and it will [?] them…

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Tax on Motorists a Direct Sectional Imposition, States Engineer

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 3

In support of his oft-repeated assertion that the amount received by department in motor fees, licences, petrol tax, etc., is out of all proportion to the sum spent annually in various services associated with the…

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Road to Coast Nerriga Asks Shire To Take Action

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 January 1946 · page 1

At the meeting of the Mulwaree Shire Council on Thursday a proposal that the Goulburn Council organise all shires and governing bodies interested in the proposed road from Goulburn to…

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Woman Killed by Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 3

KATOOMBA: The decapitated body of at young woman was found on the railway line near Medlow Bath to-day. The woman,…

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Local and General Improved Train Service

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 2

The Town Railway authorities advise that the mail trains, Temora (10.20) and Albury (11.15) will now run both ways each night from…

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Volume of Traffic Will Decide Classification Boorowa-Bathurst Road

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 1

The possibility of declaring the Boorowa Bathurst road a State Highway will depend on the volume of traffic and the development of the…

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Cyclist Fatally Injured Hit by Car on Yass-canberra Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 2

L.A.C. Allan Alfred Hadfield, 28, a member of the R.A.A.F., stationed at Canberra, was fatally injured on Tuesday morning, when he was…

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Security Council Compromises Russia Hands Railways Back to Persia

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: The Security Council of the United Nations Organisation unanimously adopted the British resolution approving of the bilateral negotiations between Russia and Persia, and that the…

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Second-class Railway Sleeping Berths

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 3

At a largely attended meeting of the Dubbo A.L.P. it was also decided to request the Railway Department to instal second-class sleepers on all…

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Death of Airman Accidental on Yass Road No Negligence by Car Driver

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 1

At the inquest on Wednesday into the death of L.A.C. Albert Allen Hadfield, of Yass, R.A.A.F., stationed at Canberra, who died on…

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Narromine Is to Have a New Brick Railway Station

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 1

Narromine is to have a new brick railway station, with red tiled roof and cantilever verandahs, and Dubbo wants a cloak room and shower facilities, and an additional storey on the refreshment room to provide…

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No Let-off For Drunken Motorist

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 3

Drunken drivers should never be off under Section 556A of the Crimes Act, in the opinion of Mr. Scroope, S.M., expressed at…

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Water Is Needed Before Railway Unification

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 1

It was impossible to justify the spending of £200 millions on railways at a time when Australia's greatest need was water, said the secretary of the Forestry Advisory Council of New South Wales, Mr. F. T. Berman,…

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Settlement in Motor Collision Case

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 6

A settlement in favour of Reginald Norman Morton had been reached in the action for damages against John A. Harris…

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