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Read more about the article Accidents, prangs and crashes, Part 4

Accidents, prangs and crashes, Part 4

Our Ken Magor collection of negatives contains many press photos, a large proportion of which were never used in the newspaper. In the cases where they have been filed in labelled envelopes, it is possible to link them with the events they illustrate by searching the marvellous Trove website. This sample shows some accidents involving trams on the streets of Newcastle. Henry Russell, 61, of Brunker Road, Adamstown, got a nasty shock on the morning of Friday, August 10, 1935. He was driving his horse-drawn cordial delivery cart in Hunter Street, Newcastle, near Wheeler Place, when…

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Accident involving a bus and train at Toronto, August 1944.

Accidents, prangs and crashes: Part 3

. As a career fireman, transport collector Ken Magor naturally accumulated many photographs of accidents and disasters. Here are some more tales of vehicular tragedy and misadventure from our Ken Magor archive. August 16, 1944: The photograph above shows the aftermath of an accident between a bus and train at a level-crossing at Carey Street, Toronto. It was the third smash at the same level crossing in six years. There had previously been gates at the crossing, but these were removed - much to the horror of Lake Macquarie Shire Council, which protested regularly against the…

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Train smash at Murulla, NSW, September 13, 1926

Rail smashes: Murrurundi 1908 and Murulla 1926

Murrurundi: Good Friday 1908 It was Good Friday, April 17, 1908. At about 3.35am the Glen Innes train was just about to leave Murrurundi station, in the Upper Hunter Valley, when it was hit head-on by the Brisbane Mail train, travelling south. Ultimately, signalling staff at the small country station were held responsible for accidentally misleading the drivers of the trains into believing the tracks were clear. At the scene of the accident at Murrurundi, April 17, 1908. The impact of the smash was tremendous, and it was incredible that nobody was killed. Injuries amounted to…

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