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

Railways, roads & transport, 1958

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Thanks for Saving a Bridge

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 January 1958 · page 2

FOUR Colo Shire residents who saved a council bridge in a bush fire are to receive letters…

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Widening Of Main Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 January 1958 · page 1

Future widening of Castlereagh Road, between Richmond and the Great Western Highway at…

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Motor Cycle, Car Collide

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 January 1958 · page 1

A YOUNG man suffered severe head injuries and shock when a motor cycle he was…

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Roads Signs At Kurrajong

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 February 1958 · page 3

An advance direction sign for the eastern main road turnoff to Kurrajong is to be erected, because of…

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Historic Train May Be Festival Feature

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 February 1958 · page 10

A train of historical interest will, it is hoped, be a feature of the Hawkesbury Valley Festival opening, if the…

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Two Hurt When Car Left Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 February 1958 · page 1

When a car crashed on failing to negotiate a bend in the road, on the Wiseman’s Ferry Road,…

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“Richmond Bridge Company Act” 101 Years Ago

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 March 1958 · page 8

Attention to the centenary of a special act of parliament enabling the private construction of Richmond Bridge, and…

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Another Crash At Dangerous Bridge End

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 March 1958 · page 5

SUBJECT of repeated representations to the D.M.R. by councils and other bodies over the…

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Storm Damage Road Grant

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 April 1958 · page 2

Owing to heavy cost of storm damage restoration on Springwood Road, he had made immediate…

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£14,000 Grants Programme On Shire Roads

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 April 1958 · page 4

A GRANT works programme for shire roads for the next financial year, estimated to total…

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Programme For New Main Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 April 1958 · page 11

In connection with a D.M.R. request for a 1958-59 works programme for the newest main road in the…

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Bridge Turn Again!

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 April 1958 · page 10

On Saturday last, at about 8.40 p.m., another car rammed the earth wall the right-angled turn…

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Developmental Road Unlikely

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 April 1958 · page 2

Replying to Colo Shire Council’s application for declaration of a developmental road to serve the…

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Grant Asked For Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 April 1958 · page 2

As the result of a letter from Mr. B. S. L. Deane, M.L.A., on behalf of the residents of Mt. Irvine…

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Ratepayers Protest At New Road Tax Imposed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 May 1958 · page 9

Agreeing with a speaker that the new road transport tax imposed by the State Government was "iniquitous," the annual…

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Inquest on Train Fatality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 May 1958 · page 8

THE death of a man whose motor cycle collided with a train at Schofields was described…

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Car Skidded Off Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 May 1958 · page 4

When a small sedan car skidded on the wet bitumen on Singleton Road, near Howe’s Creek, at about…

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Injured Driver Found On Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 21 May 1958 · page 3

A MAN badly injured in a fall from his car lay for some time on a roadway near Berkshire Park…

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Cross Road Glen Davis to Putty?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 May 1958 · page 8

A REQUEST to support a scheme for a developmental road from Glen Davis to Putty was…

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Railway Historian's Address On Richmond Line

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 May 1958 · page 5

A good attendance of members of the Hawkesbury Historical Society had the pleasure of hearing a most interesting…

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