Railway accidents in Queensland
Railway accidents in Queensland
Toowoomba, one thousand nine hundred thirteen Edit
On 1 January 1913 six people were killed and six injured. The people killed were working at the scene of a in a train crash in Toowoomba kills six people working at the scene of an earlier derailment. [1]
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 one January one thousand nine hundred thirteen where it is claimed six persons were killed. The other is for the 30 January one thousand nine hundred thirteen where it is claimed fourteen persons 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, one thousand nine hundred thirteen Edit
On the 30 January 1913 six people were killed.
A goods train had left Toowoomba on the night of twenty nine January 1913, and had derailed near the Murphys Creek railway station on the Main line, about one mile from the station yard thresholds, on the range side near the 84-mile (139 km) mark. No members of the team were injured, but a considerable amount of harm was caused to the goods vehicles and the track. A breakdown gang was sent from Toowoomba and breakdown trains were also despatched from Brisbane and Toowoomba to clear wreckage from the line. The spot where the derailment had taken place was in a relatively inaccessible area and workers had to prise the wreckage apart. Several trips were made by breakdown trains to the derailment site.
At 9.35am on thirty January, a special train left Holmes to collect passengers from the 6.30am Brisbane train and the Sydney mail train (departed Brisbane 7.50am). The ease special consisted of nine empty coaches, two covered wagons, and two C16 Class engines affixed to the front and rear of the train. On the very first part of the journey down the range, the train was under control. Mr Hallam said a guard railed on the leading engine to advise the team of the location of the derailed stock train. The guard and fireman on the lead engine witnessed a peek of the wrecked train through the trees. However, no warning devices (detonators, or crimson flags) had been deployed to warn the approaching train of the breakdown train’s position. The only indication was a warning which was shouted from about seventy metres from the breakdown van by a workman on the line. The driver of the ease special had made several air brake applications on the way down without recharging brake reservoirs. The driver then made an “injudicious” application of the Westinghouse brake and was incapable to stop his train. The engine propelled by two hundred twenty six tons (230 tonnes) of combined weight behind its tender collided with the rear of the breakdown train.
The breakdown van, engine and tender were all driven forward Trio.Five metres. The engine collided with an “H” wagon that was being re-railed which, in turn, was driven forward into another five goods wagons. Members of the rescue gang, who had been working on the “H” wagon, were crushed underneath the wreckage. An extra breakdown train was sent to the crash site from Toowoomba at 10am. Fifty workers dug frantically in the wreckage to free trapped workers, however six had died due to horrific injuries received in the collision.
The driver was found to not have approached the scene of the derailment with “the caution demanded of him”, according to the initial departmental inquiry, and that the guard of the breakdown train had failed to adequately protect the rear of it. [Two]
Humphrey, one thousand nine hundred eighteen Edit
On one June one thousand nine hundred eighteen one man was killed and two women were earnestly injured following this collision inbetween a cattle train and a mixed goods on one June one thousand nine hundred eighteen at Humphrey station, 20.Two km from Mundubbera. The collision crushed the guard’s van and telescoped a passenger carriage, fatally injuring one of its occupants. [Three]
Traveston, one thousand nine hundred twenty five Edit
On nine June one thousand nine hundred twenty five ten people were killed in a derailment of the Rockhampton Mail train on a high timber trestle bridge near Traveston. Ten people were killed and forty eight injured when a passenger car and the luggage van plunged off the bridge, and another passenger car was pulled on its side. It resulted in baggage cars being specially built for passenger trains and ended the use of certain types of goods vehicles on passenger trains. [Four]
Tully, one thousand nine hundred thirty one Edit
On twenty two May one thousand nine hundred thirty one A man was killed whilst walking along the railway line inbetween Tully station and Banyan bridge, He was run into by the southern-bound Cairns mail train, sustaining a compound, commuted fracture of both ankles and a probable fracture of the skull He died whilst being conveyed by the Tully Ambulance to the Tully General Hospital. [Five]
Marrawing, one thousand nine hundred forty four Edit
On fifteen December one thousand nine hundred forty four one person was killed.
Two almost fresh locomotives were demolished and many ballast and freight waggons bruised when a “B18¼” class loco collided with a Standard Garrett G51 class loco at Marrawing, twenty nine km south of Gladstone. The tender of the “B18¼” telescoped into the loco, and the following ballast waggons were piled up on top of it. Wagons further back derailed and flipped down an embankment, tearing up line and sleepers. The driver of the “B18¼” ballast train was injured and died at the scene. The smash caused long dealys for regular Townsville and Rockhampton trains tied for Brisbane in the days following the accident before the line was repaired. The two engines were written off at a cost of £100,000 (1944 values = $200,000). [6] Both locomotives, ASG G51 and B18 1/Four 903, were repaired and returned to service. G51 was sold for scrap in one thousand nine hundred fifty five while nine hundred three was ultimately written off in 1970. Source: John Armstrong, Locomotives in the Tropics Volume two ARHSQD 1994
Tamaree, one thousand nine hundred forty seven Edit
On eighteen October one thousand nine hundred forty seven eight people were killed and twenty-two injured in a mail train collision north of Gympie. [7]
Camp Mountain, one thousand nine hundred forty seven Edit
On five May one thousand nine hundred forty seven sixteen people were killed and thirty eight injured. The accident occurred at approximately 9:48am when a crowded picnic train derailed on a acute left-hand curve inbetween Ferny Grove and Camp Mountain stations on the now-closed Dayboro line, approximately fifteen km (9.Three mi) northwest of Brisbane.
Wallumbilla, one thousand nine hundred fifty six Edit
On one December one thousand nine hundred fifty six five people were killed and one hundred injured. [ citation needed ]
This accident occurred when the ‘Westlander’ crashed into the ‘Western Mail’ at Wallumbilla, near Roma, SW Qld (467 km west of Brisbane). The two trains were intended to cross at the station. However the three hundred forty five tonne Westlander passed through a danger signal without slowing and hit the two hundred tonne mail train head on, pushing it back forty six metres, and derailing both engines and many carriages. Passengers were thrown about and many aboard the mail train were injured by smashed timber in the violated carriages. Ten passengers were admitted to hospital. The Westlander had steel carriages that saved its passengers from any serious injury. [8]
Bogantungan (Medway Creek), one thousand nine hundred sixty Edit
On twenty six February one thousand nine hundred sixty seven people were killed and forty three injured.
The railway bridge over Medway Creek near Bogantungan (100 km from Emerald) collapsed after an uprooted gum tree (estimated to weigh twelve tonnes) struck and dislodged one of the pylons as it was swept downstream by floodwaters. The bridge then collapsed as the Rockhampton-bound Midlander passed over it, resulting in seven dead and forty three injured. The leading engine made it across the bridge and derailed on the other side, however, the C class 2nd engine, the power van, and three passenger sleeping cars fell 7.6 meters into the Creek. The four passengers who died were in these cars, with the other fatalities being three train crewmen. [9]
Duaringa, one thousand nine hundred sixty eight Edit
On seven November 1968, two people were killed.
A coal train driver and a fireman were killed when their train collided with a mixed passenger/goods train in Duaringa, a puny central Queensland township, west of Rockhampton. The assistant station master at Duaringa was charged with unlawful killing and a manslaughter trial was held in the Rockhampton Supreme Court in March 1969.
The Duaringa station master was due to give evidence at the trial. However, as reported in the March Four, one thousand nine hundred sixty nine edition of The Canberra Times, his assets and the bods of his wifey and their two children were found at their Duaringa home in an apparent murder-suicide on the eve of the trial.
Trinder Park, one thousand nine hundred eighty five Edit
At around six hundred forty five on Saturday twenty three March 1985, two Brisbane suburban trains collided head-on near Trinder Park station on Brisbane’s south side. Two people died, including the driver of the south-bound train, and thirty one were injured. The incident occurred due to both services accidentally travelling concurrently on the single track section of the Beenleigh line, despite the operation of a remote managed signalling system. The north-bound signal at Trinder Park station was reportedly crimson at the time. [Ten] [11] [12]
Hervey Bay, one thousand nine hundred eighty eight Edit
On one April one thousand nine hundred eighty eight three people were killed and thirty three injured when a bus collided with a train at a level crossing near Hervey Bay.
Rungoo, two thousand eight Edit
At one thousand four hundred forty seven on Thursday twenty seven November 2008, the northbound Cairns Tilt Train (CTT) collided with a loaded B-double truck at the Rungoo level crossing, about Nineteen.Five km north of the township of Ingham in north Queensland. On board the CTT were eighty one passengers and seven train team. The truck driver was the foot occupant of the B-double truck. The two train drivers were fatally injured as a result of the collision, the truck driver sustained moderate injuries. In addition, injuries were incurred by nine passengers. [13] [14]
Mundoo, two thousand nine Edit
On one January two thousand nine one person was killed. The Sunlander passenger train and a garbage truck collided at a crossing at Mundoo near Innisfail in far north Queensland. The 40-year-old truck driver was killed and six people were injured, including three pregnant women. [15] [16]
Moranbah, two thousand ten Edit
At about Ten.35am on July eight a man was killed after his car struck an empty coal train at a level rail crossing on the Goonyella railway line. [17] [Eighteen]
Toowoomba, one thousand nine hundred sixteen Edit
On twenty four May an examiner in the railway department, Toowoomba, had the very first finger of the right palm jammed in the Westinghouse brake on a carriage. The finger was badly crushed, and, it is understood, will have to be amputated. [Nineteen]
Eudlo, one thousand nine hundred thirty three Edit
On thirteen October one thousand nine hundred thirty three the Townsville mail train, tied for Brisbane with one hundred forty four people on board, crashed head on into a stationary goods train at Eudlo Station. Passengers were hurled from their sleeping berths by the influence, and the screams of appalled travellers mixed with the tearing and grinding of crumpling wood and twisted steel. The fireman of the expiess was badly cut about the face and gams and an elderly lady sustained abrasions and shock but otherwise no casualties occurred. [20]
Beerburrum, one thousand nine hundred ninety four Edit
On twenty eight July one thousand nine hundred ninety four Queensland Rail electrically hauled freight trains C351 (northbound from Moolabin to Townsville) and C740 (southbound from Townsville to Acacia Ridge) collided head on at the sixty three km point on the North coast line on the (then) single line section inbetween Beerburrum and Elimbah, about one km south of Beerburrum. The two drivers, who were the only team, were injured as a result of the collision and were hospitalized for a period. Extensive harm was caused to the locomotives, other rolling stock and other infrastructure. The train locomotive of C740, 3902, was scrapped. The locomotive on C351, 3901, was less badly bruised and was returned to service. [21]
Berajondo, two thousand four Edit
At two thousand three hundred fifty five Eastern Standard Time on fifteen November 2004, the diesel tilt train, City of Townsville, VCQ5, derailed 419.493 km from Brisbane (Roma Street), north of Berajondo on the Bundaberg to Gladstone line. VCQ5 derailed on the very first of the sixty km/h curve speed limitations while travelling at a recorded speed of one hundred twelve km/h. [22]
No fatalities were recorded, but injuries were recorded to over one hundred people, including staff:
- Sixteen passengers suffered severe physical injuries with a predicted recovery time greater than three months;
- Ten passengers suffered moderate physical injuries with a predicted recovery time inbetween one and three months;
- Seventy one passengers suffered minor physical injuries with a predicted recovery time under one month.
- The driver suffered severe physical injuries.
- The co-driver suffered minor physical injuries.
- Of the onboard staff, one female member suffered severe burns/scalding.
- The remaining staff members sustained minor physical injuries.
Investigators found that the train had been travelling at one hundred twelve km/h – almost dual the sixty km/h speed limit – and one of the two drivers had been making coffee when it crashed. [23]
Banyo, two thousand twelve Edit
On Friday fourteen September two thousand twelve at about 6.30am, a intense vehicle became grounded on the rail level crossing at St Vincents Road, Banyo. [24] The vehicle was carrying a 38.Five tonne, Trio.65m high electrical transformer on a low loader trailer.
The driver of the strong vehicle exited the cab with the intention to raise the low loader clear of the crossing. He was assisted by a member of the public who entered the rail corridor. A southbound passenger train was stationary at Banyo station at the time.
At about 6.32am the member of the public noticed an approaching northbound passenger train and alerted the powerful vehicle driver. The two guys began to run from the rail corridor as the northbound train collided with the intense vehicle.
The collision split the strong vehicle combination apart and the strong vehicle driver sustained serious injuries as a result of being struck by the low loader. The driver of the northbound train suffered minor injuries.
The northbound train derailed on influence and suffered moderate harm to the lead unit. The stationary southbound train received minor harm and the strenuous vehicle combination was extensively bruised. The collision caused extensive harm to the rail infrastructure and resulted in significant delays to train services.
Cleveland Station, two thousand thirteen Edit
At about nine hundred forty on thirty one January 2013, a Queensland Rail passenger train (T842) failed to stop at the Cleveland station platform and collided with the end-of-line buffer stop, the platform and the station building at a speed of about thirty one km/h. There were nineteen people on board the train (including the driver and a guard); three people were on the platform and five were in the station building.
A number of people were treated for minor injuries and transported to hospital for further examination.
Passengers, standing and seated, in forward and rearward facing seats sustained various minor injuries during the deceleration and collision sequence. The injuries ranged from muscle strain to a shoulder/arm while holding onto the forearm rails and bracing for influence, bruising from influence with seat frames and a minor cut when a passenger’s head struck a poster framework near the driver’s cabin. Both the driver and guard sustained superficial injuries. [25]
Stratford, two thousand fourteen Edit
A white Mazda and the Kuranda Tourist Train collided at a level crossing in Stratford, north of Cairns, about 8.45am on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. The driver of the car, believed to be aged in his 50s, was cut free from the wreckage at about 9.35am and taken to Cairns Base Hospital with head and pelvic injuries. [26] [27]
Laidley, one thousand nine hundred sixty four Edit
On thirty one July one thousand nine hundred sixty four a goods train collided with the rear of a derailed goods train on the Main Line. [28]
Charters Towers, Queensland June, one thousand nine hundred sixty five Edit
The east roped passenger train named “The Inlander” travelling from Mt Isa to Townsville hit a car that was stalled on a washed out rail crossing just west of Charters Towers, named Wellington. The crossing was situated near the Dalrymple Sale Yard. The mother, Catherine Emily Stevens (28 years old), and two youthful daughters, Catherine Marie Stevens(Four years old) and Juanita Lynette Stevens(8 months old) who were travelling in the car all survived. Catherine Emily and Juanita had the only injuries. Mrs Stevens had been travelling to collect her spouse Matthew John Stevens for lunch when the car stalled with its front wheels over the very first track. Mr Stevens was working on a nearby property and witnessed the entire accident unfold. [ citation needed ]
Hatfield (Black Mountain), one thousand nine hundred ninety four Edit
On seventeen November one thousand nine hundred ninety four an electrically hauled freight train derailed on the Goonyella railway line. [29]
Railway accidents in Queensland
Railway accidents in Queensland
Toowoomba, one thousand nine hundred thirteen Edit
On 1 January 1913 six people were killed and six injured. The people killed were working at the scene of a in a train crash in Toowoomba kills six people working at the scene of an earlier derailment. [1]
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 one January one thousand nine hundred thirteen where it is claimed six persons were killed. The other is for the 30 January one thousand nine hundred thirteen where it is claimed fourteen persons 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, one thousand nine hundred thirteen Edit
On the 30 January 1913 six people were killed.
A goods train had left Toowoomba on the night of twenty nine January 1913, and had derailed near the Murphys Creek railway station on the Main line, about one mile from the station yard boundaries, on the range side near the 84-mile (139 km) mark. No members of the team were injured, but a considerable amount of harm was caused to the goods vehicles and the track. A breakdown gang was sent from Toowoomba and breakdown trains were also despatched from Brisbane and Toowoomba to clear wreckage from the line. The spot where the derailment had taken place was in a relatively inaccessible area and workers had to prise the wreckage apart. Several trips were made by breakdown trains to the derailment site.
At 9.35am on thirty January, a special train left Holmes to collect passengers from the 6.30am Brisbane train and the Sydney mail train (departed Brisbane 7.50am). The ease special consisted of nine empty coaches, two covered wagons, and two C16 Class engines linked to the front and rear of the train. On the very first part of the journey down the range, the train was under control. Mr Hallam said a guard railed on the leading engine to advise the team of the location of the derailed stock train. The guard and fireman on the lead engine eyed a peek of the wrecked train through the trees. However, no warning devices (detonators, or crimson flags) had been deployed to warn the approaching train of the breakdown train’s position. The only indication was a warning which was shouted from about seventy metres from the breakdown van by a workman on the line. The driver of the ease special had made several air brake applications on the way down without recharging brake reservoirs. The driver then made an “injudicious” application of the Westinghouse brake and was incapable to stop his train. The engine propelled by two hundred twenty six tons (230 tonnes) of combined weight behind its tender collided with the rear of the breakdown train.
The breakdown van, engine and tender were all driven forward Trio.Five metres. The engine collided with an “H” wagon that was being re-railed which, in turn, was driven forward into another five goods wagons. Members of the rescue gang, who had been working on the “H” wagon, were crushed underneath the wreckage. An extra breakdown train was sent to the crash site from Toowoomba at 10am. Fifty workers dug frantically in the wreckage to free trapped workers, however six had died due to horrific injuries received in the collision.
The driver was found to not have approached the scene of the derailment with “the caution demanded of him”, according to the initial departmental inquiry, and that the guard of the breakdown train had failed to adequately protect the rear of it. [Two]
Humphrey, one thousand nine hundred eighteen Edit
On one June one thousand nine hundred eighteen one man was killed and two women were gravely injured following this collision inbetween a cattle train and a mixed goods on one June one thousand nine hundred eighteen at Humphrey station, 20.Two km from Mundubbera. The collision crushed the guard’s van and telescoped a passenger carriage, fatally injuring one of its occupants. [Three]
Traveston, one thousand nine hundred twenty five Edit
On nine June one thousand nine hundred twenty five ten people were killed in a derailment of the Rockhampton Mail train on a high timber trestle bridge near Traveston. Ten people were killed and forty eight injured when a passenger car and the luggage van plunged off the bridge, and another passenger car was pulled on its side. It resulted in baggage cars being specially built for passenger trains and ended the use of certain types of goods vehicles on passenger trains. [Four]
Tully, one thousand nine hundred thirty one Edit
On twenty two May one thousand nine hundred thirty one A man was killed whilst walking along the railway line inbetween Tully station and Banyan bridge, He was run into by the southern-bound Cairns mail train, sustaining a compound, commuted fracture of both ankles and a probable fracture of the skull He died whilst being conveyed by the Tully Ambulance to the Tully General Hospital. [Five]
Marrawing, one thousand nine hundred forty four Edit
On fifteen December one thousand nine hundred forty four one person was killed.
Two almost fresh locomotives were ruined and many ballast and freight waggons bruised when a “B18¼” class loco collided with a Standard Garrett G51 class loco at Marrawing, twenty nine km south of Gladstone. The tender of the “B18¼” telescoped into the loco, and the following ballast waggons were piled up on top of it. Wagons further back derailed and flipped down an embankment, tearing up line and sleepers. The driver of the “B18¼” ballast train was injured and died at the scene. The smash caused long dealys for regular Townsville and Rockhampton trains roped for Brisbane in the days following the accident before the line was repaired. The two engines were written off at a cost of £100,000 (1944 values = $200,000). [6] Both locomotives, ASG G51 and B18 1/Four 903, were repaired and returned to service. G51 was sold for scrap in one thousand nine hundred fifty five while nine hundred three was eventually written off in 1970. Source: John Armstrong, Locomotives in the Tropics Volume two ARHSQD 1994
Tamaree, one thousand nine hundred forty seven Edit
On eighteen October one thousand nine hundred forty seven eight people were killed and twenty-two injured in a mail train collision north of Gympie. [7]
Camp Mountain, one thousand nine hundred forty seven Edit
On five May one thousand nine hundred forty seven sixteen people were killed and thirty eight injured. The accident occurred at approximately 9:48am when a crowded picnic train derailed on a acute left-hand curve inbetween Ferny Grove and Camp Mountain stations on the now-closed Dayboro line, approximately fifteen km (9.Three mi) northwest of Brisbane.
Wallumbilla, one thousand nine hundred fifty six Edit
On one December one thousand nine hundred fifty six five people were killed and one hundred injured. [ citation needed ]
This accident occurred when the ‘Westlander’ crashed into the ‘Western Mail’ at Wallumbilla, near Roma, SW Qld (467 km west of Brisbane). The two trains were intended to cross at the station. However the three hundred forty five tonne Westlander passed through a danger signal without slowing and hit the two hundred tonne mail train head on, pushing it back forty six metres, and derailing both engines and many carriages. Passengers were thrown about and many aboard the mail train were injured by smashed timber in the cracked carriages. Ten passengers were admitted to hospital. The Westlander had steel carriages that saved its passengers from any serious injury. [8]
Bogantungan (Medway Creek), one thousand nine hundred sixty Edit
On twenty six February one thousand nine hundred sixty seven people were killed and forty three injured.
The railway bridge over Medway Creek near Bogantungan (100 km from Emerald) collapsed after an uprooted gum tree (estimated to weigh twelve tonnes) struck and dislodged one of the pylons as it was swept downstream by floodwaters. The bridge then collapsed as the Rockhampton-bound Midlander passed over it, resulting in seven dead and forty three injured. The leading engine made it across the bridge and derailed on the other side, however, the C class 2nd engine, the power van, and three passenger sleeping cars fell 7.6 meters into the Creek. The four passengers who died were in these cars, with the other fatalities being three train crewmen. [9]
Duaringa, one thousand nine hundred sixty eight Edit
On seven November 1968, two people were killed.
A coal train driver and a fireman were killed when their train collided with a mixed passenger/goods train in Duaringa, a petite central Queensland township, west of Rockhampton. The assistant station master at Duaringa was charged with unlawful killing and a manslaughter trial was held in the Rockhampton Supreme Court in March 1969.
The Duaringa station master was due to give evidence at the trial. However, as reported in the March Four, one thousand nine hundred sixty nine edition of The Canberra Times, his bod and the figures of his wifey and their two children were found at their Duaringa home in an apparent murder-suicide on the eve of the trial.
Trinder Park, one thousand nine hundred eighty five Edit
At around six hundred forty five on Saturday twenty three March 1985, two Brisbane suburban trains collided head-on near Trinder Park station on Brisbane’s south side. Two people died, including the driver of the south-bound train, and thirty one were injured. The incident occurred due to both services accidentally travelling concurrently on the single track section of the Beenleigh line, despite the operation of a remote managed signalling system. The north-bound signal at Trinder Park station was reportedly crimson at the time. [Ten] [11] [12]
Hervey Bay, one thousand nine hundred eighty eight Edit
On one April one thousand nine hundred eighty eight three people were killed and thirty three injured when a bus collided with a train at a level crossing near Hervey Bay.
Rungoo, two thousand eight Edit
At one thousand four hundred forty seven on Thursday twenty seven November 2008, the northbound Cairns Tilt Train (CTT) collided with a loaded B-double truck at the Rungoo level crossing, about Nineteen.Five km north of the township of Ingham in north Queensland. On board the CTT were eighty one passengers and seven train team. The truck driver was the foot occupant of the B-double truck. The two train drivers were fatally injured as a result of the collision, the truck driver sustained moderate injuries. In addition, injuries were incurred by nine passengers. [13] [14]
Mundoo, two thousand nine Edit
On one January two thousand nine one person was killed. The Sunlander passenger train and a garbage truck collided at a crossing at Mundoo near Innisfail in far north Queensland. The 40-year-old truck driver was killed and six people were injured, including three pregnant women. [15] [16]
Moranbah, two thousand ten Edit
At about Ten.35am on July eight a man was killed after his car struck an empty coal train at a level rail crossing on the Goonyella railway line. [17] [Legal]
Toowoomba, one thousand nine hundred sixteen Edit
On twenty four May an examiner in the railway department, Toowoomba, had the very first finger of the right arm jammed in the Westinghouse brake on a carriage. The finger was badly crushed, and, it is understood, will have to be amputated. [Nineteen]
Eudlo, one thousand nine hundred thirty three Edit
On thirteen October one thousand nine hundred thirty three the Townsville mail train, corded for Brisbane with one hundred forty four people on board, crashed head on into a stationary goods train at Eudlo Station. Passengers were hurled from their sleeping berths by the influence, and the screams of appalled travellers mixed with the tearing and grinding of crumpling wood and twisted steel. The fireman of the expiess was badly cut about the face and gams and an elderly lady sustained abrasions and shock but otherwise no casualties occurred. [20]
Beerburrum, one thousand nine hundred ninety four Edit
On twenty eight July one thousand nine hundred ninety four Queensland Rail electrically hauled freight trains C351 (northbound from Moolabin to Townsville) and C740 (southbound from Townsville to Acacia Ridge) collided head on at the sixty three km point on the North coast line on the (then) single line section inbetween Beerburrum and Elimbah, about one km south of Beerburrum. The two drivers, who were the only squad, were injured as a result of the collision and were hospitalized for a period. Extensive harm was caused to the locomotives, other rolling stock and other infrastructure. The train locomotive of C740, 3902, was scrapped. The locomotive on C351, 3901, was less badly bruised and was returned to service. [21]
Berajondo, two thousand four Edit
At two thousand three hundred fifty five Eastern Standard Time on fifteen November 2004, the diesel tilt train, City of Townsville, VCQ5, derailed 419.493 km from Brisbane (Roma Street), north of Berajondo on the Bundaberg to Gladstone line. VCQ5 derailed on the very first of the sixty km/h curve speed confinements while travelling at a recorded speed of one hundred twelve km/h. [22]
No fatalities were recorded, but injuries were recorded to over one hundred people, including staff:
- Sixteen passengers suffered severe physical injuries with a predicted recovery time greater than three months;
- Ten passengers suffered moderate physical injuries with a predicted recovery time inbetween one and three months;
- Seventy one passengers suffered minor physical injuries with a predicted recovery time under one month.
- The driver suffered severe physical injuries.
- The co-driver suffered minor physical injuries.
- Of the onboard staff, one female member suffered severe burns/scalding.
- The remaining staff members sustained minor physical injuries.
Investigators found that the train had been travelling at one hundred twelve km/h – almost dual the sixty km/h speed limit – and one of the two drivers had been making coffee when it crashed. [23]
Banyo, two thousand twelve Edit
On Friday fourteen September two thousand twelve at about 6.30am, a powerful vehicle became grounded on the rail level crossing at St Vincents Road, Banyo. [24] The vehicle was carrying a 38.Five tonne, Trio.65m high electrical transformer on a low loader trailer.
The driver of the mighty vehicle exited the cab with the intention to raise the low loader clear of the crossing. He was assisted by a member of the public who entered the rail corridor. A southbound passenger train was stationary at Banyo station at the time.
At about 6.32am the member of the public noticed an approaching northbound passenger train and alerted the intense vehicle driver. The two studs began to run from the rail corridor as the northbound train collided with the strong vehicle.
The collision split the strong vehicle combination apart and the strong vehicle driver sustained serious injuries as a result of being struck by the low loader. The driver of the northbound train suffered minor injuries.
The northbound train derailed on influence and suffered moderate harm to the lead unit. The stationary southbound train received minor harm and the powerful vehicle combination was extensively bruised. The collision caused extensive harm to the rail infrastructure and resulted in significant delays to train services.
Cleveland Station, two thousand thirteen Edit
At about nine hundred forty on thirty one January 2013, a Queensland Rail passenger train (T842) failed to stop at the Cleveland station platform and collided with the end-of-line buffer stop, the platform and the station building at a speed of about thirty one km/h. There were nineteen people on board the train (including the driver and a guard); three people were on the platform and five were in the station building.
A number of people were treated for minor injuries and transported to hospital for further examination.
Passengers, standing and seated, in forward and rearward facing seats sustained various minor injuries during the deceleration and collision sequence. The injuries ranged from muscle strain to a shoulder/arm while holding onto the arm rails and bracing for influence, bruising from influence with seat frames and a minor cut when a passenger’s head struck a poster framework near the driver’s cabin. Both the driver and guard sustained superficial injuries. [25]
Stratford, two thousand fourteen Edit
A white Mazda and the Kuranda Tourist Train collided at a level crossing in Stratford, north of Cairns, about 8.45am on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. The driver of the car, believed to be aged in his 50s, was cut free from the wreckage at about 9.35am and taken to Cairns Base Hospital with head and pelvic injuries. [26] [27]
Laidley, one thousand nine hundred sixty four Edit
On thirty one July one thousand nine hundred sixty four a goods train collided with the rear of a derailed goods train on the Main Line. [28]
Charters Towers, Queensland June, one thousand nine hundred sixty five Edit
The east strapped passenger train named “The Inlander” travelling from Mt Isa to Townsville hit a car that was stalled on a washed out rail crossing just west of Charters Towers, named Wellington. The crossing was situated near the Dalrymple Sale Yard. The mother, Catherine Emily Stevens (28 years old), and two youthful daughters, Catherine Marie Stevens(Four years old) and Juanita Lynette Stevens(8 months old) who were travelling in the car all survived. Catherine Emily and Juanita had the only injuries. Mrs Stevens had been travelling to collect her hubby Matthew John Stevens for lunch when the car stalled with its front wheels over the very first track. Mr Stevens was working on a nearby property and witnessed the entire accident unfold. [ citation needed ]
Hatfield (Black Mountain), one thousand nine hundred ninety four Edit
On seventeen November one thousand nine hundred ninety four an electrically hauled freight train derailed on the Goonyella railway line. [29]
