What the records say
- When
- 20 Apr 1908
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 37.79° S, 144.83° E
- Description
- train wreck
- Deaths
- 44
Sunshine rail disaster
Severe Australian train accident in April 1908
On 20 April 1908, at the junction at Sunshine railway station 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.
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