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

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

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Detailed Inspection of By-roads

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 2

During yesterday the councillors representing 'C' Riding, together with the Shire Engineer carried out…

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Help Of Goulburn Motor Cyclists Appreciated

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 6

The prompt and willing help rendered by members of Goulburn Motor Cycle Club in an acident last week…

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Railway Bowls

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 7

Goulburn Railway Bowling Club's No. 2 Pennant team had a meritorious win over Canberra City on Sunday…

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Train Delays

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 3

A goodstrain derailment 3 miles north of Cowan last night disrupted rail services between Sydney and Newcastle…

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Local Firemen Train For Demonstration

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

A team of six of Goulburn's most skilled Volunteer Firemen will compete in a State-wide demonstration of fire fighting methods at Leeton next month. The Leeton demonstration…

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Train Fatality Near Breadalbane Goulburn Inquest

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 2

Goulburn Deputy Coroner, Mr. G. A. Goodwin, found in Goulburn Coroner's Court yesterday that a 13-year-old Melbourne boy was killed instantly when struck by a diesel locomotive after falling from a Sydney-bound mail…

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Editorial a Bridge Over the Abyss

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 2

Recent statements from high Soviet sources have been marked by a much more conciliatory tone than in the past and it would seem that Western policy is at last beginning to pay dividends…

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Dangerous Crossing Request For Deviation And New Bridge. At Derringullen Creek

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 2

The Municipal Council will ask the Main Roads Board to give a high priority to the construction of a deviation and new bridge…

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Crookwell's Claim For Daily Train Service Supt's. Comments

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 1

"If the people of Crookwell give the railways sufficient business to warrant a daily train service, it will be our pleasure to put that service on," Goulburn Railways Superintendent, Mr. R. J. O'Brien, said this morning…

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Police Chase After Local Motor Cyclist

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 2

A local man was fined £25 on a driving under the influence charge in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday. He is Geoffrey Patrick…

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Railwayman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 3

A man was taken to Goulburn Base Hospital yesterday with chest injuries after he had been caught between en engine and…

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Railway Fines

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 3

Police courts during February fined 375 people for offences against the New South Wales railways. The Commisisoner for…

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Killed by Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: A young men was killed instantly to-day, when he fell from an electric train near Summer Hill…

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Captain's Flat Road

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 1

The management of the Lake George Mine at Captains Flat has notified the public that the direct road leading from the…

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Road Fatality Near Marulan Sydney Man Killed

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 3

A Sydney man was killed near Marulan early last night the heavy truck he was driving was involved in a collision with a semi-trailer vehicle travelling in the opposite direction…

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New Bridge Wanted Derringullen Creek Too Many Accidents

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 2

Goodradigbee Shire is cooperating with the Municipal Council in representations to the Department of Main Roads to…

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Railway Bowls

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 8

Results of matches in the Bill Anderson Memorial Shield played at Goulburn Railway Bowling Club were: E. Cameron…

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Fire in Truck at Railway

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

At 7.50 a.m. on Saturday, Goulburn Fire Brigade was called to the Railway marshalling yards to extinguish…

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Man Struck by Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 1

George Prettyman, ganger, of 53 Wilmot Street, Goulburn, was injured near Breadalbane this morning…

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District Road Toll: 18 DEAD, 30 INJURED Figures For Nine Months

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 2

Figures For Nine Months Eighteen people have been killed and 30 injured-15 of them seriously-in motor accidents in the Goulburn district during the past nine months. Of those killed, three were in…

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