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

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

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Editorial a Better Road Sense

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 2

An indication that we are at last beginning to follow a more definite trend towards social maturity is seen in the slight reduction in the toll of the road over the past year…

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Railway Protest

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 January 1954 · page 5

The Australian Railways Union has protested to the Minister for Transport, Mr. E. Wetherell, that seniority has…

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Former Dorothy Taylor Dies On Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 6 January 1954 · page 5

NEW YOIIRK, Tuesday: The Countess, Dorothy Di Frasso, a few hours before she died on Monday, said to the actor,…

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Railway Bowls Notes

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 6

Inclement weather and the holiday restricted bowling at the Railway Club last week-end…

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Improving The Local Aerodrome

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 7

Goulburn City Council last night granted permission to Goulburn Aero Club to carry out a number of…

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Giant "Road Train" Arrives At Cooma

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 5

Many of the large crowd who lined Cooma's Sharp Street last week to see the S.M.A. "road train" carrying its first pay-load to the mountains, watched the supports of the bridge over the…

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Goulburn Bride in Fatal Road Accident Guests Hear News At Reception

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 1

Tragedy struck at the week-end when a young bride of less than five hours was killed in a road accident near Goulburn…

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No Railway Strike

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Australian Railways Union's executive has decided not to hold a strike of railway…

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Road Accidents In Goulburn District

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 2

A serious accident was narrowly avoided when a car scraped the side of a tourist coach on the Federal…

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Tumut-canberra Road Through Brindabella

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 8

The Tumut “Times” reports in part: “At its last meeting Tumut Shire Council decided to apply for a developmental road grant for…

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"Long Road Ahead" For Pacific Security Says Mr. Dulles

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: A Pacific Defense Pact on Nato lines was a long way, off, U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. John. Foster Dulles, declared yesterday. Mr. Dulles was answering…

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Soldier’s Star Was Found on Tram

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 2

A Soldier’s 1939-1946 star found on the Yass tram has been left at the Yass Tribune-Courier office and will be returned to the…

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Big Motor Merger

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 3

DETROIT, Thurs. (A.A.P.): The Hudson Motor Car Company and the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation merged to-day…

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New Facts on the Road Toll Fifty per cent of Australia’s fatal road accidents occur in rural districts—on straight roads

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 3

This is revealed in a new Current Affairs Bulletin on Road Safety published by the Sydney University for tutorial classes…

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Train As Easy To Drive As Car

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 3

The first diesel hydraulic locomotives ever to operate over a normal working line in Britain recently pulled a passenger…

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Goulburn Was "Lit-Up"—With Lamps & Candles Opening Of The Railway

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 6

Goulburn was decorated with lamps and candles which shed "on unwonted Iustre athwart the darkness." A few transparencies were lighted up with "Alfred and "Galatea." The Royal Hotel and prepared…

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Rode Motor Cycle Under the Influence

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 1

James Patrick Donovan, labourer, West Wyalong, was fined £15, in default 30 days hard labour, by Mr. Win. Finlay, S.M., at…

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Ex-Goulburn Man Killed By Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 1

Mr. Patrick McSullea, a railway employee at Eveleigh, Sydney, and a former resident of Goulburn, was killed…

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Sheep Killed On Braidwood Road

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 3

Two sheep were killed when struck by a car oh Braidwood Road yesterday. The driver of the car, Neville…

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Common Abuses Of Motor Cars

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 3

The N.R.IM.A. engineers here list some of the common forms of abuse of motor vehicles:…

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