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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1953

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Plan To Relieve Upper McDonald Road Block

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 August 1953 · page 1

A plan to give quick relief to residents isolated by the submerged No. 1 bridge above St. Albans, by providing a new route by-passing the…

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Irwin's Bridge Now Completed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 8

In his report to the August meeting of the Colo Shire Council the engineer (Mr. D. W. Robertson) stated that all…

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Sections Of Railway Now Leased

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 5

LEASES of sections of the Kurrajong railway route were now being given by the Department of…

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Verdict For Damage To Railway Gate

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 August 1953 · page 7

RESULTING from damage to a railway level crossing gage, the Commissioner for Railways at the…

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Roads Open In McDonald Area

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 September 1953 · page 2

In his report to the August meeting of the Colo Shire Council, the engineer (Mr. D. W. Robertson) stated that…

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Bond for Rider after Motor Cycle Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 3

ANOTHER lengthy "drive under influence" hearing extending over parts of four court sittings…

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Motor Cyclist Experiences Narrow Escape

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 1

A NARROW escape from more, serious, injury was experienced by a motor cyclist whose machine…

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Member Told Of Ferry Road Improvements

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 September 1953 · page 2

LISTED improvements to the Wiseman's Ferry Road are explained in a Ministerial reply to…

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Injured When Car Skidded On Wet Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 September 1953 · page 1

WHEN a car skidded on a wet roadway and struck a post at Richmond on Thursday last the driver…

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Tar Sealing of Road Not Approved

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 4

A REQUEST by Windsor Council that the Commonwealth authorities tar-seal the connecting road between…

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Road Barrier Idea Approved By Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 9

A SUGGESTION for barriers on the present road past the aerodrome, when the proposed new airstrip…

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Fatal Motor Cycle Mishap To Resident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 1

WHILE riding his motor cycle home on Saturday evening a well known and popular Comleroy Road…

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Foot Badly Injured By Motor Cycle

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 1

While riding pillion behind his father, a schoolboy had one foot very badly injures in the rear wheel of a motor cycle on Saturday af afternoon…

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Council Debate On Repairs To Bridge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 October 1953 · page 2

Whether temporary repairs to the approaches to No. 1 bridge above St. Albans were justified in present circumstances was the subject of a…

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Another Man Killed From Motor Cycle

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 October 1953 · page 12

IN the fourth motor cycle fatality in as many weeks in this district, another young man was…

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Motor Cyclist Unlicensed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 October 1953 · page 2

On a charge of riding a motor cycle while not holding a licence, Robert Henry Grigson was fined £2/8/- with…

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Road Grants To Shire Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 October 1953 · page 2

Colo Shire Council was advised at its September meeting by the Minister for Local Government that he had…

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Holdup Of New Road Section

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 October 1953 · page 8

In a letter to the September meeting of the Colo Shire Council the Department of Main Roads stated it was…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 October 1953 · page 1

Whilst riding his motor bike on the Bell's Line Road, Kurrajong, on Sunday afternoon, William J. Sheman…

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Proposed Road To Cemetery

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 November 1953 · page 6

A recommendation by the works committee, that the engineer (Mr. J. A. McKenna) prepare an estimate for…

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