6492°S 147.9868°E / -34.6492; 147.9868 The Salt Clay Creek railway disaster was one of Australia's first railway accidents involving multiple fatalities...
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municipality and John Frederick Barnes elected first mayor. 1885 — Salt Clay Creek railway disaster - seven killed and dozens injured when culvert collapsed 1886...
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Violet Town rail accident (redirect from Violet town railway disaster)
The Violet Town rail accident, also known as the Southern Aurora disaster, was a railway accident that occurred on 7 February 1969 following the incapacitation...
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(United Kingdom) Eschede train disaster (Germany) Railway accidents in New South Wales Lists of rail accidents "The rail disaster that changed Australia". BBC...
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assessed as socially rare. Cootamundra West railway station Salt Clay Creek railway disaster "Cootamundra Railway Station and yard group". New South Wales...
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The Medway Creek rail disaster occurred on 26 February 1960 when the Midlander, a passenger train service that operated in Central Queensland, crashed...
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was one of a party of bookmakers in the train wrecked in the Salt Clay Creek railway disaster of 25 January 1885, when seven passengers lost their lives...
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seven and injuring over 20. The cause was a washaway of a culvert over Salt Clay Creek during a period of heavy rainfall. On 21 June 1887, an excursion train...
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(2000). Australian Railway Disasters. IPL Books. p. 28. Pearce, Kenn (2000). Australian Railway Disasters. IPL Books. p. 30. "Railway Collision At Hawthorn"...
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The Sunshine rail disaster occurred on 20 April 1908 at the junction at Sunshine railway station (in Sunshine, Victoria, Australia) when a Melbourne-bound...
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The Sydenham rail disaster occurred on 19 December 1953 when a New South Wales Government Railways electric passenger train travelling to Bankstown ran...
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horse-drawn buggy collided with a train in Dry Creek, at the intersection of Grand Junction Road and the main railway line running north from Adelaide. The men...
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Camp Mountain rail accident (redirect from Camp Mountain train disaster)
Australia. The Camp Mountain train disaster is still the largest loss of life in a rail accident on the Queensland railway network with 16 fatalities, including...
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on the night of 29 January 1913, and had derailed near the Murphys Creek railway station on the Main line, about one mile from the station yard limits...
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Glenbrook rail accident (redirect from Glenbrook rail disaster)
accident occurred on 2 December 1999 at 8:22 am on a curve east of Glenbrook railway station on the CityRail network between Glenbrook and Lapstone, in the...
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Cowan rail accident (redirect from Cowan rail disaster)
shtml, Retrieved 17 February 2013 Pearce, Kenn (1999). Australian railway disasters (2nd ed.). IPL Books. ISBN 978-0-908876-09-9. "1990, May 6, Cowan...
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Waterfall rail accident (redirect from Waterfall rail disaster)
the disaster, a Tangara interurban train service, set G7, which had come from Sydney Central station at 6:24 am, departed Sydney Waterfall railway station...
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Beresfield railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It opened on 31 July 1925, serving the western Newcastle...
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This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States...
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Retrieved 17 October 2016. "Railway Disasters: A Midland Train Derailed". The West Australian. 25 July 1917. "Midland Railway Disaster". The West Australian...
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Geurie crossing loop collision (category 1963 disasters in Australia)
South Wales portal Railways portal Zanthus train collision Lists of rail accidents Pearce, Kenn (1999). Australian Railway Disasters. Davidson: IPL Books...
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Thistle, Utah (category Natural disaster ghost towns)
southeast of Salt Lake City, at the confluence of the two primary tributaries to the Spanish Fork River, Thistle Creek and Soldier Creek. This confluence...
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Exeter crossing loop collision (category 1914 disasters in Australia)
the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2008. Kenn Pearce (1994). Australian Railway Disasters. Davidson: IPL Books. ISBN 0-908876-09-2....
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Hines Hill train collision (category 1996 disasters in Australia)
The Hines Hill train collision occurred on the Eastern Goldfields Railway on 14 January 1996 at Hines Hill, Western Australia. Two trains entered a passing...
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Port River (redirect from Tam O'Shanter Creek)
temperature. The worst environmental disaster to occur in South Australian marine waters was the St Kilda salt fields brine spill, which killed of hectares...
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Kembla Grange derailment (redirect from Kembla Grange rail disaster)
derailment occurred early on the morning of 20 October 2021 near Kembla Grange railway station, New South Wales, Australia, when a passenger train collided with...
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Retrieved 18 May 2023 – via National Library of Australia. "Fatal Railway Disaster On The Fingal Line". The Mercury. Vol. XLIX, no. 5, 110. Tasmania,...
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2016. Retrieved 29 November 2011. Pearce, Kenn (2000). Australian Railway Disasters. IPL Books. p. 106. "Level Crossing Collision". Archived from the...
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This is a list of disasters in Australia by death toll. The Port Arthur massacre claimed 35 lives in 1996 when Martin Bryant opened fire in the former...
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Wodonga level crossing accident (category 1943 disasters in Australia)
8th May 1993. Railway accidents in Victoria List of disasters in Australia by death toll List of level crossing accidents "RAIL DISASTER INQUEST How Crowded...
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