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

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

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Bridge Temporary Only

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 September 1954 · page 4

Stating in his report to the August meeting of the Colo Shire Council that temporary repairs had been effected to…

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Another Deal On Boundary Road Wanted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 September 1954 · page 4

NEW and alternative suggestions for maintenance of Boundary Road have been forwarded by windsor…

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Who Should Pay Main Road Lighting Costs.?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 10

"IT is agreed that better lighting of our main roads in built-up areas is an urgent necessity, but the…

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Motor Cyclist Injured En Bilpin Mishap

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 1

A YOUNG motor cyclist was taken to hospital as a result of injuries sustained in a collision near…

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Drainage Of Bridge Was Delayed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 5

SO far there had been too much water to permit scooping-out of channels to drain water from No. 1…

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Dept. Claims Roads Signs Are Adequate

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 3

PRESENT road signs at the Wilberforce-Freemam's Reach Roads junction, and at the "fiveways" at…

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Comleroy Road Annual Ball Had Big Crowd

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 12

A GALA event of the year in Comleroy Road was the annual ball staged in the School of Arts, by the…

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Council Plans For Extra Road Money Grant

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 3

How the considerable Increase in Federal Aid Money to the granted to the council will Toe spent, was tentatively discussed at the September…

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Final Decision On Railway Reopening Flea

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 4

RAILWAY authorities did not consider the reopening of the old Kurrajong line as far as North…

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Road Drainage Verdict Against Council

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 October 1954 · page 8

A claim for damages against Colo Shire Council in respect of Wllberforce Road drainage was successful, it was disclosed in the engineer's…

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Road To New Cemetery Listed Job

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 October 1954 · page 6

IMPROVEMENT of the access road to the general cemetery at South Windsor had been listed as a routine…

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Poor Power For Farm Motors

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 October 1954 · page 10

At a meeting of the Hawkesbury Vegetable Growers' Association at Windsor on October 14 the action of the…

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Railway Bridge "Saved Lives"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 15

The railway bridge beside the traffic bridge at North Richmond had "saved dozens of lives," it was asserted by…

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Main Concern Is Floods' Effects On Roads

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 13

Only direct interest of both the Department of Main Roads and Colo Shire Council in floods was the effects of these on roads under their care, it…

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£5600 To Be Spent On Two Roads

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 6

The Department of Public Works had now approved of the expenditure of £5600 on part of Oakville Road, and part of Cornwallis Road, it was…

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Road Section To Be Widened

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 5

Replying to a request by Colo Shire Council for a traffic centre line on Bell's Line Road from North Richmond…

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Scenic Road To Be Provided

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 2

Replying to suggestions received, through Colo Shire Council, for provision of memorials along the Bell's Line…

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£15,000 Shire Road Jobs List Adopted

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 November 1954 · page 1

An amended list of tentative road works to meet its expanded £15,430 Federal Aid Roads allocation for 1954-55 was adopted by Colo Shire…

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Praised Work On Roads

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 November 1954 · page 12

"Federal Aid work has been completed on the Lower Colo Road and the Upper Colo Road, and that of East…

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No Special Grant For Log Hauling Road Damage

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 November 1954 · page 6

Colo Shire Council's latest effrt to secure a special Government grant to compensate for road damage as the result of timber hauling in the…

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