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

Railways, roads & transport, 1966

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Struck Trouble With Road Name

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 March 1966 · page 15

After months of controversy, Hillcrest Road has been chosen as the name of a street in the…

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Wasp Too Smashes Bridge-To-Bridge Record

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1966 · page 5

Trailing a plume of water 30 feet high and 100 yards long Wasp Too sped up Windsor Reach at 110 m.p.h. on Sunday morning to smash the…

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Flood Access Road

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1966 · page 18

A move to have Triangle Lane. Richmond, tar-surfaced because of its importance as an outler…

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Go-karts 500 Watch Road Racers in Action

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 March 1966 · page 4

More than 500 spectators watched road racing drivers in borrowed go-karts try their skills at the…

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Through Train to Sydney

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 30 March 1966 · page 12

The Railways Department has been asked to restore the through, train to Sydney, which leaves…

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Two Roads To Be Sealed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 30 March 1966 · page 20

Park Road and Florence Avenue at Kurrajong will be lightly tar sealed…

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Hobby Should be on Main Road (To the Editor)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 April 1966 · page 2

Sir,— I note with interest your report (Gazette, 30/3/66) of the tenacity of the Colo Shire Council…

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Mayor, President Appeal to Motorists

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 April 1966 · page 17

The incidence of road accidents to New South Wales and the numbers of persons killed and injured had taken on such a tragic impetus in recent years as to rival the scourges of pestilence of past eras. Regrettably the taster period normally produces an upward trend in this rash toward destruction of life and…

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Service For Motorists

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 April 1966 · page 19

Driven’ licences and vehicle registration forms can now be issued on the spot at Richmond Motor…

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Final Phase of Slopes Road Bridge Starts

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 April 1966 · page 11

Work on the approaches to the recently-completed Slopes Road Bridge has been started…

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Railway Will Pay Its Share

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 April 1966 · page 22

A decision by the Railways Department to pay half the cost of sealing the approaches to…

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Support for Railway Committee

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 29 April 1966 · page 9

Windsor Council will make a contribution to the fighting fund which has been established by…

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New Bridge Over Shaw’s Creek

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 May 1966 · page 8

A tender of $56,331 has been accepted for the construction of a new bridge over Shaw’s Creek on the…

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100 at Railways Meeting

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 May 1966 · page 1

More than 100 representatives of organisations interested in the improvement of rai…

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Nth. Richmond Bridge Area May Be Excavated

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 May 1966 · page 17

Only a few weeks after a group of residents filled a hole in the, Hawkesbury River near North…

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Road Status to be “Re-examined”

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 May 1966 · page 2

The requested proclamation of Mountain Lagoon Road as a developmental road is being…

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Road Junction Traffic Hazard

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 May 1966 · page 16

Winter Council has asked the Department of Main Roads to improve as a matter of urgency…

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Road Dust Troubles Orchardist

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 May 1966 · page 18

An inspection of Mt Tootie Road had not advanced Mr Kendall Williams’ claim over other…

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Road Hazards to be Investigated

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 May 1966 · page 2

At the instigation of Cr W. S. Hill the Colo Shire engineer (Mr A. Cook) will re-design a dangerous…

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To Try New Road Surface

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 May 1966 · page 20

An American method of road “packing” is to be carried out as an experiment by the Colo…

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