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Murray · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1954

974 stories in Murray's papers · page 21 of 49

1300 motorists to face courts

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 June 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sun.: More than 1300 [?]orists are to be prosecuted as the result of driving offences committed this week…

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More and Better Roads

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 3

Local Government bodies with the responsibility of maintaining our road system are keenly looking forward to the additional…

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Road-users Fined '

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 9

The following road users were fined for driving offences; Thomas Lesson, 521 Young street, not turning with safety, £2; Graham…

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Will Train in Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 9

P. J. J. O'Connell, of Lavington, was committed to the custody of the Brigadier Administrator, HQ, Southern Command…

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Redex Motor Cyclists' Ordeal They rode into Albury like heaps of mud and slush!

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 8

Eighty-five heaps of “mud and stash” arrived in Albury between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. yesterday and all but three of them left again at varying times after spending up to three-quarters of on hour on on appreciated meal…

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Man survives bridge fall

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 13

SYDNEY, Tues.: A man, who fell from the Sydney Harbor bridge today, was alive when taken from the water…

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Free booklet for road safety

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 10

A 112-page booklet entitled, “Safe Motoring,” will shortly be issued free of charge to every motorist in N.S.W…

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£2000 limit on fire damage claims on N.S.W. Railways

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 20

SYDNEY, Tues.: The State Government proposes to place a limit of £2000 on claims against the Railways Department for bush fire damage, State Cabinet today approved amendments to the Government Railways Act to limit the department’s liability…

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Motoring Pars and Personalities

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 10

The first of the Australian assembled Volkswagons will leave the assembly line this week at the production factory of Martin and…

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Motor vehicle market is buoyant

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 11

CANBERRA, Wed.: The motor vehicle market is buoyant, but competition is keen. Manufacturers and assemblers ere confident that total sales for 1954 will again be in the vicinity of 160,000 vehicles…

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Says underground railway offer should be accepted

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 12

|MELBOURNE, Wed.: The offer of the Utah Construction Co. to build an underground railway in Melbourne should be accepted by the Victorian Government, the president of the Chamber of Commerce Sir John…

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Albury-Wallangarra road is the most important in Australia, road chief says

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Commissioner for Main (Mr. H. M. Sherrard) said today that shire councillors had a responsibility as Australians to continue improving the main highway from Albury to Wallangarra…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 5

A motor cycle was damaged slightly in a collision with a motor lorry in young st. at 8.45 a.m. yesterday, Cycle was driven by…

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“Railways’ ’4 musketeers’ are on their way out

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1954 · page 3

Albury’s four best-known locomotives, the ones which have pulled the Spirit of Progress to and from Melbourne for 17 years, are being “retired.” Soon they will be…

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Zero hour near for offending motorists Meeting Told of Police Plans

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1954 · page 3

N.S.W, police have been instructed to wage an all-out war against offending motorists in on effort to reduce the ever-mounting tall of the road, Supt. H. E. Snowden, Superintendent of…

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Nine. Motorists Fined

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1954 · page 16

Nine motorists were fined in Albury Court yesterday for traffic offences They are: Lindsay B. Kelly, David street, cut corner,…

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Woman Motor Cyclist Killed

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1954 · page 24

SYDNEY, Fri.: A woman motor cyclist was killed and her husband slightly injured when their cycle fell under a bus at Matraville…

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Three cyclists die on Vic. roads

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A cyclist was killed instantly, and two motor cyclists received fatal injuries in Victorian road accidents…

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Sydney motor cyclist wins 2500 miles trial

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY, Sun.: With the loss of Only three points for the 2500 miles journey, Sydney Club motor cyclist Keith Stewart, on o Matchless, won the Redex reliability trial today…

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Our Motor Cyclists Confident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 June 1954 · page 10

LONDON, Sun.: Australian and New Zealand motor cyclists are confident of success in the Isle of Man T.T. races which…

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