It was a long time ago when I posted about the local Sunshine train crash back in 1908. I was reminded of it when I recently came across this memorial plaque at Sunshine Station.
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You can read about the detail on Wikipedia, and here is a snip.
The Sunshine rail disaster occurred on 20 April 1908 at the junction at Sunshine railway station (in Sunshine, Victoria, Australia) when a Melbourne-bound train from Bendigo collided with the rear of a train from Ballarat. 44 people were killed and over 400 injured, almost all of them from the Ballarat train, as the Bendigo train was cushioned by its two locomotives.[2]
It is the second worst train disaster in Australia after the much later 1977 Granville train crash with 83 killed. Nowadays, train crashes are so rare here, and deaths even rarer.
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I read the transcript. A terrible accident. And there are still horrible incidents involving the modern, faster trains even now.
ReplyDeleteI am tempted to cancel my next rail tickets now Andrew.
Don't cancel. The trains are run by Italians. You will be perfectly safe.
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DeleteThat would be a horrible event to recall
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine being on a train as it crashes.
ReplyDeleteTerrible event, but I did like the song.
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ReplyDeleteI said the same thing about planes :(
There was a train crash here in Quebec a few to several years ago. It is a devastating event.
ReplyDeleteThe memorial plaque is a powerful reminder of those lives lost
ReplyDeleteOh dear, I didn't know about the disaster in 1908 and of course remember the latter one well, dreadful both of them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link.
I didn't know about this one and while tragic, it was so long ago, it holds little interest for me.
ReplyDeleteI knew someone who was involved in a train crash. She wasn't hurt but never travelled by train again, which was a shame as her husband's work had provided her with free train travel.
ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of that event. Sunshine is such a happy name for a terrible incident. (Named after a town, I assume.)
ReplyDeleteThis was our worst train disaster.
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It's strange because I just listened to a book show about a train disaster in Paris in 1895. I just looked it up and thankfully only one person was killed.
The Canadian crash is quite well known, and it was a shocker. I will have to check on the Paris crash. It doesn't come to mind.
DeleteThat train wreck is all the more shocking when you realize that it wasn't even a train carrying passengers!
ReplyDeleteI guess plane crashes have replaced train crashes, at least as far as shock value.