Talk:Railway accidents in New South Wales

Valley Heights collision
More than one collision has occurred at Valley Heights.

This is a request for information about the one involving the incorrect replaced of a damaged green signal lense. Signal lenses have two pieces of glass, the outer one is clear and only the inner one is coloure. The purpose of the outer clear lense is to reflect any stray light such as sun light as white, rather than say green, which would be a wrong side failure. As a result of the incorrect replacement of the outer lense, a false green light occured and a train passed that signal at stop, resulting in a collision.

The second accident, Valley Heights train collision occurred at 2 am in the morning, so presumably sunlight wasn't a cause. So far an explanation hasn't been found.

Tabletop (talk) 09:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Lindfield, 1928?
In worst Wikipedia style, the section on the Lindfield disaster has a detailed description, followed by a final paragraph asserting that the event never occurred. For what it's worth, there is a searchable archive of some Australian newspapers that doesn't have any hits for such a serious event in 1928. —Eric S. Smith (talk) 20:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I've removed it as it seems unverifiable.MrHarper (talk) 23:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
 * You may not have looked hard enough. It is possible that it was reported in an article in the ARHS Bulliten (now Australian Railway History possibly in an article about Signals Passed at Danger (SPAD).  To make things difficult, this article(s) predates the Internet.  Tabletop (talk) 09:01, 15 August 2009 (UTC)


 * For a crash that was supposed to have killed several people, that it doesn't appear at all in the Sydney Morning Herald of 1928 or 1929 indicates that it never happened. Reynardo (talk) 13:41, 5 July 2010 (UTC)


 * BTW, a bent Overhead Wiring Mast, that may have been bent as a result of this accident, has recently been renewed along with all the other masts.


 * There is a similar accident at Roseville, the previous station, in 1950.

Lindfield 1929
The National Library archives have only been available since 2010, which may explain which earlier searches found little.

The collison involved electric trains; note that the line had been electrified only in about 1928.


 * 15 August 1929 Collision
 * 15 August 1929 Collision

St Marys, Date ??
Wasn't there an train accident where a suburban train ran off the rail into front yards near St Marys Station in Sydney West?

203.194.45.221 (talk) 10:33, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Illustration


I think there are two pictures you could illustrate the article with. The derailing of two trains on January 17th, 2007. What do you think? Perhaps you can find out more by having a look at the flickr site the pictures are from.

There are catchpoints where the engine(s) detailed at Sefton East Junction coming from Chullora, which could have derailed the engine. The view of these catchpoints is obscurred by the engine. Tabletop (talk) 08:43, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Loss of citations for this article
I was adding some addition information on this article including some citations. There appeared to be an error and all previous citations disappeared. Is it possible to revert to an earlier version of the article that includes the original citations? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foggyterritory (talk • contribs) 01:03, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Including text suggestions made by another editor
Having restored to the earlier version of the pages that included full citations I will edit the pages to include the text corrections made by a subsequent update — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foggyterritory (talk • contribs) 01:12, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Rocky Ponds Accident 1948
The reference cited for this accident is from a West Australian newspaper story published shortly after the accident. It contains numerous inaccuracies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.151.248.94 (talk) 03:02, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

Newbridge ?
It is currently claimed that the XPT collided with an excavator on the track at Newbridge, in 2010  and also in 2011. It seems implausible that the same accident happened at a particular place twice in successive years. One of these entries is surely mistaken about the date.Tallewang (talk) 09:38, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

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Parkes 1991?
The only evidence I can find for the Accident is the caption of an image on Getty Images which is awfully odd.

https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/parkes-train-crash-survivors-arrive-by-bus-at-sydneys-news-photo/1080115254 1.145.105.194 (talk) 04:06, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * there's an XPT near Henty smh 4/5 with injuries Dave Rave (talk) 05:45, 24 November 2023 (UTC)