The Worst Train Accidents In Victorian History 

Thank you for treating this subject so respectfully! Well done Max.

Left comment in Frankston line. Caulfield station May 1926 three died. Plaque on platform 4. Well done. Each video is getting better

The decapitation photo at 4:22 was a bit of a shock but otherwise a very interesting and well researched video.

Its crazy how many accidents happen when one is running late. RIP to those whose lives were tragically cut short 😔

A nice little video my friend was the driver of the xpt rip John.

Well researched Max. Thanks for using my credited Jolimont photo.

8.07 The Violettown Railway Disaster Is Also Very Famous It Was The 50th Anniversary Of The Crash 2 Years Ago In 2019! Again As With The Sunshine Crash Gets Mentioned A Lot In Books About The Victorian Railways Quite A Bit About The Crash In The Keith Turton Book "Six And A Half Inches From Destiny" About The History Of The Melbourne-Wodonga Railway Line!🙂🚇🚃🚃🚃🛤️

There was also a fatal collision when a V/Locity train collided with a truck near Trawalla on 28 April 2006. Killed were the train driver's mother who was riding in the front carriage, and another passenger. The train driver was severely injured.

Here's another accident worth mentioning. The Salesyard Rd, Benalla K183 accident of 2002. This was a special service crewed by West Coast Railways. A B-Double truck failed to give way to the train, hitting the truck head-on. The train driver, fireman and one footplate visitor was fatally injured. Another footplate passenger was seriously injured. No other injuries were reported. K183 was placed in storage, and there is still a lot of controversy over whether or not it should be restored. However, recently it has been taken out of storage for a full damage assessment to determine whether it is restorable or not. The full report is available here for those who want to read it: www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2002/RAIR/pdf/rair2002003_001.pdf

My thoughts and prayers to out to all that have suffered from any of these accidents! Cheers from Canada!

The 1860s were the darkest decade of the victorians era. The Authorities did very little about safety till the 1880s decade.

Well done Max. Very informative. The images you provided of the actual incidents really added to the experience.

+The Train Man. Melbourne, Australia. Thank you for sharing with us. Very sad and tragic. Let 's not forget these accidents and their victims and those affected.

I worked in the railways 84- 88 as a signalman. No crashes or stuff up's. I have fond memories of these times

Well put together video. Thank you for your hard work

This is probably gonna be to be the most saddest video but it’s very interesting

Thank you Train Man, very well produced and very well researched.

What terror must have been felt by all victims inside the carriages and engines in a crash. And other impacted vehicles. Makes me shudder to imagine it. A solemn history lesson well presented, thank you.

A sad doco this time. I remember the Violet Town Southern Aurora crash well - only 11 at the time. However, I hadn't even heard of the XPT crash earlier this year.

I think you also forgot the cranbourne level crossing accident at abbotts road. but great video! keep it up! =)

When I was researching Victorian railway accidents, crossing accidents and train only related accidents were counted separately by the rail authorities. Still a lot of tragedy.

This is an excellent documentary! Thank you for this

Fantastic video Train man,Thank you

Respectful and informative. Well Done TrainMan.

Great video! I think you handled this topic very well.

Train Man, another excellent production with some very sad illustrations. The respectful tone of your voice hit just the right note as well.

It was Spencer Street Station,back in those days,@The Train Man!.

Great job. A great video, enjoyed it. Keep up the good work.👍

This video was an eye-opener. When I think of train accidents, I think of trains...now I thinks cars and trucks, too. Well-done.

Can’t wait to see those!

Well Done Once Again Train Man!🤗👌👍🚇🚃🚃🚃🛤️

A very nice video paying respect to all those accidents. Very well put together.

Nice one, this one is so interesting! I will act respect to those that was involved in these accidents.

You didn't mention about the Trwalla Accident with a velocity in 2006. No mention of the 2002 accident with K183 killing 3 The xpt accident the second person to die wasn't a co-driver it was a pilotman due to the CTC failures. But thank you for treating this subject with caution and care, for some one who has been involved in one of these accidents it's a very touchy subject, so thanks for your care and respects

i think you should do a separate video on the syndal collisison! since it occured near where you live! thanks for the brilliant content Max!

Thanks for doing this. I was 7 when the Southern Aurora went over. Our grandmother. lived at 164 Rupert st West Footscray and we gathered there every couple of nights and being across the road from Tottenham station &c. we would all run out the front when the big interstate bound trains would pass. I love trains because as an infant , id sleep in the front room till it was time to go home and all those shunting trains going all night were a lullaby. Id like to see yu go and film a day trip to that memorial.

One of my direct forefathers was in the Jolimont accident and the Windsor accident. What are the odds👀

Well done Max, the voice over is excellent. Virtually no stumbles at all.

Another great video. It's surprising that I've never heard of the level crossing smash at Bonegilla. I did my electronics apprenticeship at Bonegilla army base.

Very well done. Thank you. When you were putting this together, did you think that for one or two of these accidents that there may be enough for their own videos going into a bit more detail? Cheers.

Sad to hear the people who lost their lives in those fatal accidents rest in peace to all of the people.

I live in albury and hearing about the wodonga one saddens me, where is the plaque? I want to go there and pay my respects

The Sunshine Railway Accident In 1908 Is Very Famous Gets Mentioned In Many Books on Victorian Railways History!🙂🚇🚃🚃🚃🛤️

Great piece of work here in compiling this video too, as always.The reality also is that most of these "accidents" are not accidents. They are crashes and most crashes are avoidable. Someone or something causes a crash. The Kerang investigation was an embarrassment for the Victoria Police, V Line investigators, and for the court system in Victoria. Here we had a truck driver, (you know, the type that want the community to call them "professional drivers), who was driving a semi too fast for road conditions, speeding at around 100kph into the train on the crossing. He refused to be interviewed , and when charged, pleads not guilty and he gets off basically in Court at Bendigo with a slap on the wrist, being found not guilty of culpable driving causing death. At least he was sued in the civil jurisdiction by some on the train later. Police should have appealed the original court decision at the time. Very weak effort.

That was a great video. It was very sad though. What video have you got planned for this week and What days do you usually upload your videos? Keep up the good work!!

One of the locomotives from the Richmond 1910 crash, E494 (now E369), is actually preserved.

Melbourne has certainly had it's share of accidents, great video again max good on you mate keep going your doing really well..

Good stuff, well researched, I do remember the Southern Aurora Accident vividly . I love that train had a chance to travel on it 4 or 5 times before they stopped spending money on it.

Channel 7 have interviewed survivors of the Kerang incident and it is part of a doco series. It should be airing any week now.

Love the vid as always. No Windsor incident though! That's my face accident in history

4:11 highett acceint i was born in 2010 23rd of march i was told about this on by birthday and the wallan i was in the the frount carrige that nearlly tirp over Keep the good vids coming train man

In 1990 a book called "Victorian Railway Mishaps" by Marc Fiddian was published.

Here in Chicago, USA we have way too many grade crossings. More than one collision per week.

Thank you so much for the coverage Max, I remember that night I was watching tv and hearing breaking news about the crash at 7:50 pm. Just a little feedback here, I think you should've said "Sydenham, near the site of Watergardens". Because we don't wanna say that Watergardens existed back then, also, about Highett, I think you should've translated miles to Kilometres as 95% of your viewers are Aussies. Thank you overall and hopefully we see those hcmt's soon!

Pause the video at 0:22 the S class is like hello and please help

Hi. Max, a very interesting subject and you have done it really well. Regardless of all the sophisticated safeworking control systems in place there is no control over the human body. However a lot of good emerges from these events. After the Violet Town accident Vigilante Control was installed in locos. Some good emerges.Cheers.

I used to catch the train in sunshine every morning going to school just where the accident happened. I never knew it at the time. There were no plaques or anything.

A very moving video, I used to transfer trains at sunshine and there's a memorial stone at the end of platform 1 under the over pass. There also was a train accident in Laverton in 1974 or 75 I stand to be corrected where an up train from Geelong was supposed to cross over to the other side track but the signals were incorrectly set and the train derailed striking the bridge pillion and resulting in 1 death. I have only the slightest memory as I would only have been 9 at the time.

With these sort of historical things the original station names should be used, with the 1908 Sunshine crash the trains were heading towards Spencer Street as the Southern Cross renaming was 100 years off and Watergardens is a new separate Station to Sydenham which the Bendigo Train had been cleared to pass through towards Sunshine.

I worked at the brake company when they altered their information to show that there was no vigilance control available at the time of the crash. Obviously protecting some high official in the state rail authority . I didn't realise at the time the implications

Laurie Rosevear, driver of the Albury bound goods train in the Violet Town disaster left behind an unborn son.

Very sad video but good work train man.

Great video

I’ve share this with my dad at gheringhap 🙃 great job max.

Cool but sad video. At the time of the Highett crash the crossing wasn’t in a roundabout shape, 2 of the pictures seen in this video show the original alignment. In 1980 it was changed to a roundabout when the crossing got boom gates. The Horsham crash happened on the western highway ( then called dimboola road ) but not on the serviston/Western SG line. Happened on the Carpolac line which comes off the serviceton line just before the hazel street crossing . The line has been abandoned since I think 1987 and has since been ripped up. The Boronia crossing was grade separated in 1998 not 1996 and the southern aurora crash happened at the Mcdiarmids rd Crossing, not Cowslip street which is where the memorial gardens are

I came from Victoria ,I new nothing of the history of these train crashes ,very interesting .

9 minutes into this clip I have seen a NSWGR 12 class, 16 class, QR 4-6-0 locomotive and a GWR 2-6-2T locomotive. Not many Victorian locomotives. Great information though.

The southern aroura. I've been by that soo many times wondering why that was there

0:21 just imagine you walking home from work and you see that

Love your youtube channel. Can you do a video how the Melbourne rail network grew? What lines and when.

Very interesting film - we hear very little of Australian railway events over here in England. I didn't know, for example, that VR used trains visually identical to our HST stock until seeing this. I think a couple of English railway pictures sneaked in there as well - the VR certainly didn't use GWR heavy tank engines, did they? That banker in the penultimate story was way off her normal beat!

Very interesting

TM, great shot of the CRA building @ 1:15!!!

There was a book called Victorian Railway Mishaps by Marc Fiddian. Pub. 1990.

Highett....lose head (4.22) in midle of the road. Quite rare pic today. Kudos for showing truth.

Nice work keep it up mate but you forgot the crash on the glenwaverly line at syndal station on November 20 1989

Absolutely bummed I missed the premiere. But great video The Train Man!

Accidents not looked at in this video will most likely feature in future videos

The front wheels on the Loco were worn I thought? My knowledge mostly comes from the docuseries the day of the roses

ue cant wait!

I can’t wait.

The latest 2020 XPT crash was crazy considering there was a special pilot on board to help the driver navigate that section of track.

What engine is that?

i would also like to comment you forgot to add that the Kerang accident was the worst in V/line history but other then that good video.

is the pic on the screen on the outer circle line?

With the Kerang crossing crash, what happened to the truck driver though?

goated bro

Hello Max. very well and interesting. You also missed another crash. of the Broadmeadows Runaway in 2003 17 years later. Let me explain. on the 3rd of February 2003, an M>Train Comeng was arriving at Broadmeadows to terminate. The Driver of the train then switches seats to head back. 22 passengers were on board. He put the train air breaks to Normal Pressesure. (correct me if I spelled that wrong) But it failed. the driver did not realize and as the driver went into the station toilet, the train started to slowly roll down towards Melbourne. with no driver or person. The station staff looks out and sees the train leaving. until a passenger complained that their train left early. The driver of the train then heads outsides as he finishes but sees That his train is rolling down by its self. he then runs To the train, but it sped up and he could not stop the train. (not gonna finish the middles parts) Metrol, the company that controls all signals around melbourne, Tried everything to stop the train but everything was a failure. Meanwhile, at Spencer street station, there was a City of Bendigo train. N463. N463 Was waiting at Spencer street station to depart bound for Bacchus Marsh. Meanwhile at Essendon, The comeng train was now going around 102 KPH. and as it approaches The N463 at Spencer street, it crashes through. The N463 was surprisedly Not damaged. except for the cab infront. The Comeng was damaged from the cab. Luckily, no people died. but 11 were injured. you can find pictures here: vicsig.net/phovicsig.net/photo.php?filename=20030203-sss-394m-n463-2.jpg vicsig.net/photo.php?filename=20030203-sss-394m-n463-2.jpg recovery: (4TH OF FEBUARY) vicsig.net/photo.php?filename=20030204-sss-394m-n463-4.jpg vicsig.net/photo.php?filename=20030204-sss-394m-apart-2.jpg vicsig.net/photo.php?filename=20030204-sss-n463-1.jpg vicsig.net/photo.php?filename=20030204-sss-394m-close.jpg comeng being toad away: vicsig.net/photo.php?filename=20030204-sss-p15-393m-1048t.jpg I hope this was helpful and can add it in Part 2 with the benalla crash that i saw in comments!

awesome also with the wallan XPT he was doing 150kph

There was a triple fatality at Beaufort in 1910.

Highett... the guy's head is on the road.. noticed it when i went back

Was that the Serviceton accident at 12.35 ?

This is quite a sad video but the XPT derailment has stuck in my head as I was due to travel to Sydney on the XPT two weeks after which has made me realise that if it was 2 weeks later, I could have possibly been involved in it.

Don't get me wrong, these crashes are horrible, but Australia has it lucky when it comes to rail disasters, compared to the US, Canada and UK, among others.

Everybody who died rest in peace

Bridge “ collaptions” there’s a new one

Ditto for the steam crane @ 3:09!!!

hi buddy ...for got the holmsglen crush. back in 2000 s ? i nearly missed the train.

can you do the secrets of the Mernda line?

I cant find the footage of the 1910 Richmond crash