Sunshine rail disaster
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sunshine-rail-disaster-171-9956558
title:
Sunshine rail disaster
text:
The Sunshine rail disaster occurred on 20 April 1908 at the junction at Sunshine railway station 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. 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.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Severe Australian train accident in April 1908
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_rail_disaster
date created:
2005-02-06T01:23:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T08:48:05Z
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