Train accident at Sunshine, Victoria
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Photograph of train wreckage on the Sunshine railway platform. The wreckage includes timber doors and wheel axels. Various men, including a man carrying a shovel are on the tracks. On the further platform a photographer has set up his camera and a number of men are lined up in front of him.There are many onlookers, some of whom are trying to look in over a high timber fence. Parts of trains can be seen in the distance. The station sign: SUNSHINE, is visible on the right. The Sunshine accident occurred when the Easter Monday special train from Bendigo passed stop signals and collided with the rear of a train from Ballarat that was standing at the station. 44 people died and 431 were injured in what until 1956 was Australia's worst railway accident.
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Probably taken by a newspaper photographer
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Archives Series
Material relating to railway matters collected by M.William John Ellis over the period 1898-1949. The series contains press cuttings, 159 photographs and 1 photograph album.
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20 April 1908
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