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Read more about the article Accidents, prangs and crashes: Part 3
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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Read more about the article Ken Magor, fireman, transport enthusiast and compulsive collector

Ken Magor, fireman, transport enthusiast and compulsive collector

Ken Magor was a passionate Newcastle-based collector of transport and fire brigade memorabilia who, at the time of his death in 1993, had amassed about 250,000 photographic negatives, in addition to a huge collection of other items. A career fireman, he was well-known among fire brigade employees and a prominent member of a small but extremely active group of transport enthusiasts who made it their business to keep the memory of old-time transport modes alive. Ken was born in Broken Hill, NSW, on December 12, 1912, and died in Newcastle on March 9, 1993, aged 80.…

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Travelling Through Time, dedicated to our Dads

Our 10th book, Travelling Through Time, will always be associated in our minds with sad endings and joyous beginnings. That's because for much of 2018 as we worked on the book, we were painfully aware that both our fathers were dying and - at the same time - we were awaiting the birth in Sweden of our first grandchild. As it happened our fathers died within a week of one another last October, just as the book was being printed, and little Elsie was born on November 1. Naturally we had to make our pilgrimage to…

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