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Worst Railway Accidents In Australia
{{Use dmy dates, date=November 2019 Lists of railway accidents that have occurred in each state and territory of Australia are contained in the following articles: * Railway accidents in New South Wales * Railway accidents in the Northern Territory * Railway accidents in Queensland * Railway accidents in South Australia * Railway accidents in Tasmania * Railway accidents in Victoria * Railway accidents in Western Australia This article is concerned with railway accidents occurring in Western Australia, where they are identified as fatal accidents, injury related accidents, or where infrastructure or rolling stock was damaged. Fatalities Poison Gully (Bellevue), ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Accidents In New South Wales
The railways of New South Wales, Australia have had many incidents and accidents since their formation in 1831. There are close to 1000 names associated with rail-related deaths in NSW on the walls of the Australian Railway Monument in Werris Creek. Those killed were all employees of various NSW railways. The details below include deaths of employees and the general public. Accidents involving loss of life Locomotive No.1, 1858 This locomotive, built in 1855 by Robert Stephenson with three others for the first real railway line in New South Wales, was involved in two fatal accidents. The first occurred as a derailment on 10 July 1858. The locomotive was pulling two open third-class carriages, a first- and a second-class carriage between Sydney and Parramatta. Near Homebush, the two third-class compartments left the rails and toppled down an embankment. There were thirty people in the two carriages, of whom two were killed, one a solicitor, the other a market gardener. In the ensuin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Accidents In The Northern Territory
Fatal accidents Pine Creek, 2011 On 5 October 2011 a man was killed after his car collided with a freight train. The collision happened at a rail crossing near the entrance to the Pine Creek Mango Farm, about 200 kilometres south of Darwin. The accident happened at a crossing that has no lights. Accidents with injuries only Camel Creek (Rodinga), 1936 On 29 February 1936 a fireman was injured when a work train left Rodinga and travelled onto a bridge that had been undermined. The engine dived nose-first into the creek. Elizabeth River, 2006 At about 1205 (CST) on 20 October 2006, a double trailer road-train truck drove into the path of a south bound freight train (6DA2) at a level crossing near the Elizabeth River Bridge, NT. The locomotive drivers sustained minor injuries while the truck driver was uninjured. Ban Ban Springs, 2006 At approximately 1356 on 12 December 2006, a double trailer truck drove into the path of The Ghan passenger train (1AD8) at the Fountain Head Road le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Accidents In Queensland
This is a list of significant railway accidents in Queensland, Australia. Fatal Accidents Toowoomba, 1913 On 1 January 1913 six people were killed and six injured. The people killed were working at the scene of an earlier derailment. There are varying reports of two rail accidents in (near) Toowoomba in 1913. These come from lists of major accidents compiled by some newspapers in the 21st century. One claimed accident is for 1 January 1913 where it is claimed six people were killed. The other is for the 30 January 1913 where it is claimed 14 people were killed. The only reasonably cited reference is to an accident at Murphys Creek (near Toowoomba) on the 30 January 1913 (see entry below) where six people are reported as being killed. There is no verifiable citation for fourteen people being killed in an accident near Toowoomba in 1913. Murphys Creek, 1913 On 30 January 1913, six people were killed, when a goods train had left Toowoomba on the night of 29 January 1913, and had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Accidents In South Australia
This article lists significant fatal, injury-only, and other accidents involving railway rolling stock, including crashes, fires and other incidents in the Australian state of South Australia. The first known incident in this list occurred in 1873 in Smithfield, South Australia. Orroroo 1901 two killed in head on collision between cattle train and goods train Fatal accidents Glanville, 1880 On 23 September 1880 a woman was run over and killed by an engine at Glanville. She was walking towards the station at Glanville close to the line and within a very short distance of the platform. Dry Creek, 1890 On 21 July 1890, James Cowan, a member of the South Australian Parliament, and his fellow passenger, Mark Bullimore, the local branch manager of the General Electric Supply Company of Australia, were both killed when a train collided with Cowan’s horse-drawn buggy at the intersection of Grand Junction Road and the main railway line running north from Adelaide in the suburb o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Accidents In Tasmania
The rail transport in the ''island state of Australia'', Tasmania, has had many train accidents since their historic opening in 1871. Here's a list of train accidents that have occurred in Tasmania's railway network. Hobblers Bridge Launceston Australia Day 1 fatality 1970 ..? 1 seriously injured. Fatal accidents Bridgewater, 1886 On 22 July 1886 an express train from Launceston whilst crossing the viaduct at Bridgewater, the swing bridge opened and the engine fell into the river. The fireman and another person were supposed to have drowned. Zeehan, 1887 2 killed. Horseshoe Bridge, 1893 On 30 September 1893, a passenger train with 60 people onboard derailed due to sabotage on the Horseshoe Bridge near Brighton Junction station. The saboteur(s) have never been found. Campania, 1916 On 15 February 1916, seven passengers were killed and twenty nine seriously injured when the express from Launceston to Hobart, with 200 passengers on board, was derailed north of Campania, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Accidents In Victoria
There have been a number of train accidents on the railway network of Victoria, Australia. Some of these are listed below. Fatal accidents North Geelong, 1857 On 25 June 1857, the inaugural train of the Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company left Geelong at 10 a.m., bound for the company's temporary Melbourne terminus at Greenwich (now Newport). When the train passed under the road overpass adjacent to the Ocean Child Hotel in North Geelong, Henry Walter, the locomotive superintendent of the company, was knocked off the locomotive and fatally injured. Jolimont, 1881 On 30 August 1881, the first accident in Victoria involving passenger deaths and multiple injuries occurred. Four passengers were killed, and 39 were injured, when a tyre broke on one of the wheels of the 8:54am express from Brighton to Flinders Street Station, causing the derailment of five carriages near Jolimont. The first car to leave the rails, the fourth in a train of nine, was dragged along the metals for some d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Accidents In Western Australia
This article is concerned with railway accidents occurring in Western Australia, where they are identified as fatal accidents, injury related accidents, or where infrastructure or rolling stock was damaged. Fatalities Poison Gully (Bellevue), 1904 On 1 August 1904 a goods train running from Midland Junction to Pickering Brook derailed on a washed out bridge across Poison Gully. Driver and fireman were killed. A memorial to the crew is in Midland. Wokalup (Mornington Mills), 1920 On 6 November 1920, nine people were killed and two were injured in a timber train crash involving the locomotive the ''Jubilee'', which was travelling from Mornington Mills to Wokalup. Korrelocking (Wyalkatchem), 1928 On 21 August 1928, a mixed train from Merredin derailed near Korrelocking, four miles before Wyalkatchem. One passenger died and seven were injured. Roelands, 1951 On 13 February 1951, driver William Wakeham was crushed to death under a load of quarry stone when the trucks telescoped ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
