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

Railways, roads & transport, 1950

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Shire Roads Ratepayers’ Assn. To Meet Council

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 5

In response to a request from Mr. W. Castle-Roche, president of i the newly formed Ratepayers’ Association, Goodradigbee Shire…

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Murder On Train Body Thrown From Window

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 5

BRISBANE: A. 40-year-old stockman was murdered and his body thrown off a train, between Alpha and…

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Cloudburst Causes Widespread Flood Wollondilly And Mulwaree Overflow Banks Racecourse and Golf Links Under Water Train Marooned At Bungendore Last Night

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 1

Another violent storm yesterday swelled the Mulwaree and the Wollondilly dangerously, cutting off Eastgrove from the city, flooding several buildings and submerging Murray's Flats under seven feet of water with incalculable damage to fencing and stock…

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Motorist Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 8

Felix Abela, 22, Old Show-ground, Yass oRad, was taken by Goulburn Ambulance from Auburn Street, suffering from…

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Air-conditioned Train Second One In South

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 28 March 1950 · page 4

The second air-conditioned train with a buffet dining car passed through Goulburn at 11.30 this morning…

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Second Air-conditioned Train

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 2

The second air-conditioned train with a buffet dining car passed through Yass on Tuesday. The carriages are exactly the same as…

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Footballers' Narrow Escape Car Overturns on Harden-boorowa Road

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 1

A car load of footballers travelling from Harden to Boorowa last Sunday had a miraculous escape from injury…

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Boorowa Shire Council Will Seek Additional Funds for Main Roads and Trunk Routes Resolutions Submitted to Shires' Conference

The Burrowa News · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 1

Boorowa Shire Council will press for at the Shires' Conference that the Government be urged to make available increased funds to the Department of Main Roads in order to permit additional grants for maintenance and improvement of…

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Robberies in Goulburn Motor Cycle Stolen

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 5

Four business premises, in the southern end of Auburn Street were broken and entered on Thursday night and early…

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Those Feeder Roads

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 7

URALLA: At the meeting of Uralla Shire Council it was decided to ask the shire engineer (Mr. J. S. Talbot) to…

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Dumped Rubbish on Road

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 3

Harold W. Lancaster, Yass Road, Goulburn, was charged before Mr. A. J. Paton S.M., in the Court of Petty Sessions…

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Road Cut Off Near Taralga

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 1

Main Road 251 from Taralga is closed at a point three and a half miles from the town…

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1000 Towns Unite To Improve Road Safety

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 2

During Children's Safety Week in Britain, one thousand towns united in a special effort to improve the safety on the…

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Jet Engines For Railway Travel

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 7

Principles similar to those used in driving aircraft by jet engines are being applied to railway travel. British…

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Special Sunday Ballast Train

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 4

In order to strengthen the railway line between Goulburn and Crookwell after the heavy rains, a special ballast train…

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Cr. O'brien on Roads

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 4

"The roads have stood up well to the prevailing rains, said Cr. Charles O'Brien, in town this week…

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Train Disaster Was Not an Explosion

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 4

BATHURST: The burned body of Maxwell Humphrles; fireman on the train, was recovered yesterday…

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Behind the Scenes of Order Not to Stop Trams

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 1

The good old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men. He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched then down again…

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Feared Washaway at Binalong Binalong-harden Bridge

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 April 1950 · page 5

Our Binalong correspondent, in his Monday's bulletin, expressed fear, that if the rain continued, the main road bridge at Binalong…

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Shire Briefs Matters Dealt with at Last Meeting "Nose In" Parking of Motor Vehicles at Boorowa

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 April 1950 · page 4

Boorowa Shire Council will make inquiries from Young and Cowra Municipal Councils as to whether…

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