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Violet Town rail accident
LeDawn Archive, Pictures Collection, State Library Victoria
Details
Date7 February 1969
LocationViolet Town, Victoria
173 km (107 mi) N from Melbourne
CountryAustralia
LineNorth East railway line
OperatorVictorian Railways
Incident typeCollision
CauseDriver heart attack
Statistics
Trains2
Passengers190
Deaths9
Injured117

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 of the driver of one of the trains, near the McDiarmids Road crossing, approximately 1 km south of Violet Town, Victoria, Australia. The crash resulted in nine deaths and 117 injuries.

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