Signal passed at danger due to brake failure on Bendigo train.
Statistics
Trains
2
Deaths
44[1]
Injured
400+
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]
A temporary mortuary was set up at Melbourne's Spencer Street Station to deal with the dead and wounded, who were transported from Sunshine by special relief trains.[3] The disaster is Victoria's worst railway accident in terms of deaths, and is Australia's second-worst after the 1977 Granville rail disaster.[4]
The subsequent coronial inquiry found that the two drivers of the Bendigo train as well as the Sunshine stationmaster had a manslaughter case to answer, although all three were later acquitted by the Supreme Court of Victoria.[5][page needed]
^"LIST OF VICTIMS". The Age. No. 16, 570. Victoria, Australia. 22 April 1908. p. 7. Retrieved 7 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
^Coster, Alice (19 April 2008). "When 44 died in a train". Herald Sun. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
^"At Spencer-street". The Argus. 22 April 1908. Retrieved 27 December 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Major rail accidents in Australia". Sydney Morning Herald. Australian Associated Press. 5 June 2007. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
^Pearce, Kenn (1999), Australian Railway Disasters, IPL Books Davidson, ISBN 0-908876-09-2
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