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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1935

426 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 11 of 22

Cotter-yass Road Proclamation As Main Road Unlikely

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 4

The movement by the Goodradigbee Shire Council to have the road from the Cotter to Yass, through Uriarra, proclaimed a main…

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Road Programme Yarrowlumla Shire Council Grading and Formation

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 1

Road matters again formed the bulk of the business before the Yarrowlumla Shire Council at its meeting on Tuesday. Urgent works…

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The Motor World News and Motes From the N.R.M.A. Policeman or Pedestrian ?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 1

A motorist was summoned at Croydon (Eng.) for falling to give way to a pedestrian at a crossing. The pedestrian was a police constable…

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Motor Notes Stopping After an Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 4

The R.A.C.A. appeals to all motorists to stop after an accident in which their cars are even remotely concerned, even though they may consider that the…

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Disastrous Train Crash

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1935 · page 2

LONDON.—Fifteen persons were killed, including a two-year-old child, and between 30 and 40 injured, many seriously, when a parcels express…

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Tharwa Road Mail Canberra Move Fails

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1935 · page 1

From Information in his possession, the Mayor of Queanbeyan (Ald. J. Esmond) is able to state authoritatively that the Postal Department…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. Pedestrians and Road Safety

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1935 · page 4

That the pedestrian should not be overlooked in the present campaign to promote road safety is the contention Mr. J. C. Watson, president of the…

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To Avoid Accidents Drive Carefully and Watch the Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1935 · page 2

The published statistics of traffic accidents in this country should be more than sufficient to induce every motorist and every road-user to strive…

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Motor Buses Versus Street Trams

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1935 · page 3

Following on the recent cabled reports that motor buses had been substituted in place of trams in Madison Avenue, New York City, comes word…

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Railway Disaster Expresses Smash at 70 M.p.h

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1935 · page 3

Travelling at 70 miles an hour, the newspaper express, travelling from King’s Cross, struck the rear of the stationary Newcastle express at…

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Motor Cycling Hill Climb at Queanbeyan Buster Barlow Breaks Record

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 June 1935 · page 2

Last week-end the Queanbeyan Motor Cycle Club held a hill climb at East Queanbeyan, and W. Barlow (Triumph), leader in the Coppin Cup…

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Collided in Fog Two Vehicles Badly Damaged Met on Bridge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 2

Travelling slowly through the heavy fog, two vehicles—a motor lorry driven by Mr. H. W. Cottam, of Uriarra Road, Queanbeyan, and a car driven by Mr…

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Petition Succeeds Work to Be Done in Gilmore Road

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 1

A petition by residents of Gilmore Road for work on the road and certain streets on Halloran’s Estate, submitted to last night’s meeting of the…

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Road to Sydney Surfacing to Council Boundary Co-operation Sought

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 1

The Overseer of the Municipal Council is to prepare estimates for the surfacing of the road from McQuoid Street to the Council boundary, and application…

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The Motor World News and Notes from the N.R.M.A. German Licence

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 4

A German spa, Bad Nauheim, deals leniently with motorists who leave their cars in the wrong places. The police affix a little rhyme in German…

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Special Train to Goulburn Take the Full Team Queanbeyan R.L.’s Decision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 2

A decision to take the full Queanbeyan team to Goulburn on next Sunday, without waiting for residential Qualifications to be cleared,…

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Motor Cycling Queanbeyan Club 150 Mile Trial Postponed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 3

Owing to the invitation by Goulburn M.G.C to that club’s hill climb on July 7 the local Motor Cycle Club has decided to run the first big monthly…

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Railway Rope on Lorry Young Man Fined

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 June 1935 · page 2

The discovers of a length o rope used exclusively by the railways on the lorry of a mail who called at the Police Station on June 8 to…

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Missing Clerk Seen on Train Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 June 1935 · page 1

It was reported to detectives this morning that the MISSING Taxation Department employee, Henry Lipping-well, was seen yesterday morning on…

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Airports as Motorists' Reports

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 June 1935 · page 1

The airports throughout England have become one of the most popular week-end resorts at which motorists foregather. Throughout the…

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