What the records say
- When
- 26 Feb 1960
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 23.65° S, 147.30° E
- Description
- train wreck in Australia in 1960
- Deaths
- 7
- Injured
- 43
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Medway Creek rail disaster
1960 train crash in Australia
On 26 February 1960, the Midlander, a passenger train service that operated in Central Queensland, crashed while crossing over the bridge above Medway Creek, near Bogantungan, Queensland, Australia. The disaster occurred when the bridge collapsed after its pylons were severely damaged by a 12-tonne gum tree swept downstream in floodwaters, causing two steam locomotives and three sleeping cars to fall 7.6 metres into…
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