[citation needed][dubious – discuss] On 30 January 1913, six people were killed, when a goods train had left Toowoomba on the night of 29 January 1913, and had derailed near the Murphys Creek railway station on the Main line, about one mile from the station yard limits, on the range side near the 84-mile (139 km) mark.
The relief special consisted of nine empty coaches, two covered wagons, and two C16 Class engines attached to the front and rear of the train.
Mr Hallam said a guard rode on the leading engine to advise the crew of the location of the derailed stock train.
[citation needed] The driver was found to not have approached the scene of the derailment with "the caution demanded of him", according to the initial departmental inquiry, and that the guard of the breakdown train had failed to adequately protect the rear of it.
[3] On 25 November 1918, there were two fatalities and one injury when a 'light engine' ran out of control at the top of the Barron Gorge, 2 km ('a mile and a quarter') from the Kuranda railway station.
The driver and fireman, Thomas Patrick Duignan, 27, and Evan William Whiting, 22, were thrown clear but suffered severe injuries and extensive burns.
[4] On 9 June 1925, ten people were killed in a derailment of the Rockhampton Mail train on a high timber trestle bridge near Traveston on the North Coast railway line.
[6] On 1 December 1938, three people were killed near Moselle siding east of Richmond on the Great Northern railway line.
The locomotive, tender and two wagons of a goods train from Emerald plunged through a section of the wooden rail bridge over Alpha Creek.
The smash caused long delays for regular Townsville and Rockhampton trains bound for Brisbane in the days following the accident before the line was repaired.
[11] On 18 October 1947, eight people were killed and twenty-two injured in a mail train collision at Tamaree north of Gympie.
[citation needed] This accident occurred when the 'Westlander' crashed into the 'Western Mail' at Wallumbilla, near Roma, SW Qld (467 km west of Brisbane).
However, the 345-tonne Westlander passed through a danger signal without slowing and hit the 200-tonne mail train head-on, pushing it back 46 metres, and derailing both engines and many carriages.
[citation needed] The railway bridge over Medway Creek near Bogantungan (100 km from Emerald) collapsed after an uprooted gum tree (estimated to weigh 12 tonnes) struck and dislodged one of the pylons as it was swept downstream by floodwaters.
The assistant station master at Duaringa was charged with unlawful killing and a manslaughter trial was held in the Rockhampton Supreme Court in March 1969.
The incident occurred due to both services accidentally travelling concurrently on the single track section of the Beenleigh line, despite the operation of a remote controlled signalling system.
[17][18][19] At about 5.30 a.m. on Friday 6 November 1987, Cunnamulla-bound Westlander train 3V02 was derailed at the nearby Bindango railway siding between Hodgson and Muckadilla, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Roma.
[20][21] On 1 January 2009, one person was killed, when The Sunlander passenger train and a garbage truck collided at a crossing at Mundoo near Innisfail in far north Queensland.
[22][23] At about 10.35am on 8 July 2010, a man was killed after his car struck an empty coal train at a level rail crossing on the Goonyella railway line.
[24][25] At 13:39 on 26 February 2021, a Queensland Rail suburban express passenger train on the Cleveland Line was approaching the Kianawah Road level crossing when it collided with a motor vehicle.
An ATSB investigation found that although all safety systems were operational at the time of the accident, the boom barrier did not meet the Australian standard (AS 7658) or Queensland Rail's own level crossing safety standard as there was a 3.1 metre gap between the tip of the lowered boom barrier and the median island on the northern side of the level crossing.
This was due to Queensland Rail having just one person qualified to assess all public, pedestrian, private, maintenance and construction level crossings which numbered in the thousands.
Passengers were hurled from their sleeping berths by the impact, and the screams of terrified travellers mingled with the tearing and grinding of crumpling wood and twisted steel.
The fireman of the express was badly cut about the face and legs and an elderly lady sustained abrasions and shock but otherwise no casualties occurred.
[28] On 28 July 1994, Queensland Rail electrically hauled freight trains C351 (northbound from Moolabin to Townsville) and C740 (southbound from Townsville to Acacia Ridge) collided head on at the 63 km point on the North Coast line on the (then) single line section between Beerburrum and Elimbah, about 1 km south of Beerburrum.
[29] At 2355 Eastern Standard Time on 15 November 2004, the diesel tilt train, City of Townsville, VCQ5, derailed 419.493 km from Brisbane (Roma Street), north of Berajondo on the Bundaberg to Gladstone line.
[citation needed] On Friday 14 September 2012 at about 6:30 am, a heavy vehicle became grounded on the rail level crossing at St Vincents Road, Banyo.
[citation needed] The driver of the heavy vehicle exited the cab with the intention to raise the low loader clear of the crossing.
[citation needed] At about 6:32 am the member of the public noticed an approaching northbound passenger train and alerted the heavy vehicle driver.
[37] On 21 September 2001, electric-hauled cattle train C0N0 hit and destroyed EMU units number 05 and 60 in the northern siding at Petrie, after the driver fell asleep at the controls.