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

Railways, roads & transport, 1951

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Chairman's Casting Vote Decides Policy Of By-Roads Maintenance Lengthy Discussion at Special Meeting

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 9

The Crookwell Shire Council will endeavour to bring the by-roads maintenance system to a higher efficiency by the use of one or more medium motor graders to be used in…

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Live Wire Falls on Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY: Women screamed as a broken 1500 volt overhead cable set fire to two railway carriages containing…

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Melbourne Trams May Stop

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE: The city is again threatened with a general stoppage of essential transport. The threat of a tramless…

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Road Safety Meeting

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 2

Efforts to interest the public of Goulburn in road safety work will be made at a meeting in the Town Hall on Monday night…

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Motor Cycle Accidents Police Should Closely Supervise Motor Cyclists

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 3

"There is no substitute for obedience of the law, and no way of teaching young fellows their public obligations unless their behaviour is closely scrutinised."…

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Frogmore to Get Bitumin Road Work to Commence Early Next Summer

Boorowa News · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 1

The village of Frogmore is to get a bitumen surfaced road, and the work will be put in hand in the early…

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"DISGUSTED" Frogmore Progress Assn. With Boorowa Shire , Asphalt Road Promise Not Yet Fulfilled

Boorowa News · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 4

Expressions of disgust at the treatment given Frogmore by Boorowa Shire Council were made at last…

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Motor Cyclists' Safety

Boorowa News · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 6

The N.R.M.A. does not think any worth-while contribution to road safety would follow compulsory fitting of speed…

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Railway Homes at Lithgow

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 2

Acting in conjunction with the Housing Commission, the Railways Department proposes to launch a housing project to…

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Gravelling Of By-roads To Be Done by Contract

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 January 1951 · page 5

Councillors decided at the last meeting that gravelling of byroads during the coming 12 months should be done by…

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From Everywhere Man Killed By Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 2

The body of George Jospeh Faulkener, 20, of Railway Parade, Corrimal, was found shockingly injured on the Illawarra railway…

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Train Service Restricted From To-day

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 January 1951 · page 1

Restricted passenger train services between Goulburn and Sydney came into operation to-day…

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Time of Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 3

It was inadvertently stated in yesterday's issue that during the rail cuts a train would depart Sydney for Goulburn at 7.12…

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Canadian Sabotage? At Least Four Dead When Bridge Falls

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 3

QUEBEC, Wed.: Premier Maurice Duplessis told the Quebec Provincial Legislature to-night that he believed sabotage by subversive elements caused the collapse early yesterday of four spans of…

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Road Grants

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 3

'Mr. Blake Pelly M.L.A. has received advice from the department of the following votes that have become available to…

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Motor Cyclist Under Machine

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

A motor cyclist was pinned under his machine after he lost control of it on Governor's Hill yesterday…

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Railway Engines Cause Bushfires

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 4

“More effective spark arrestors should be attached to railway engines than those in use to save the countryside from the danger…

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Hints for Motorists

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 4

Here are some “handyman” hints for motorists from the N.R.M.A. Care must be taken when…

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Teaching Motor Vehicle Driving Tuition in Secondary Schools Advocated

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 4

Declaring that the average motorist “merely stumbled” upon the knowledge of how to drive, THE N.R.M.A. general secretary,…

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Road Safety Man's Visit

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 3

Mr. W. M. Plate, Field Officer of the N.S.W. Road Safety Council, to-day praised Goulburn's effort in re-forming a…

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