What the records say
- When
- 19 Dec 1953
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 33.91° S, 151.17° E
- Description
- 1953 railway incident in Australia
- Deaths
- 5
Sydenham rail disaster
1953 railway incident in Australia
On 19 December 1953, a New South Wales Government Railways electric passenger train travelling to Bankstown ran into the rear of another electric train travelling to East Hills at Sydenham. Five people were killed and 748 injured. A wrong-side failure of the signalling system, as a result of human intervention, was believed to be the cause.
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