[1] On 21 July 1890, James Cowan, a member of the South Australian Parliament, and his fellow passenger, Mark Bullimore, the local branch manager of the General Electric Supply Company of Australia, were killed when Cowan's horse-drawn buggy collided with a train in Dry Creek, at the intersection of Grand Junction Road and the main railway line running north from Adelaide.
[8] On 15 February 1928, the fireman of a goods train travelling on the narrow gauge Broken Hill line was crushed to death as the result of a washaway.
52 - a member of the Australian Military Forces, of Myrtle road, Seacliff, following the incident found inconclusive evidence as to how Patton came to be on the railway line.
and 50th Battalion, First A.I.F., beloved husband or Kate Gallear Patton, of 47 Myrtle rd., Seacliff, and loving father of Dora and Fred.
The troop train, consisting of 16 carriages, 4 fully laden goods trucks and a brake van, was pulled by a T class locomotive.
[13] On 12 April 1970, 17 people were killed and forty-five injured when a double-decker bus crashed into the side of a two-carriage Bluebird passenger train at Wasleys Crossing, near Gawler.
[14] On 24 October 2002, four people were killed when The Ghan interstate passenger train (4AL8), a bus carrying schoolchildren, and a car collided at a level crossing.
A small passenger van drove into the path of a Patrick Portlink freight train (6117) at the Moloney Road passive level crossing near Virginia.
The train sustained minor damage but the van was destroyed, the level crossing was closed after another accident two weeks later.
[16] On 1 August 2009, the lead locomotive of Pacific National freight train 5PM5 collided with a utility motor vehicle at the Bumbunga level crossing.
[17] The man and woman who died were in a car on the Lochiel–Blyth road when an Adelaide-bound freight train hit the vehicle just before 4 pm, killing them instantly.
[18] On 22 May 2010, freight train 7MP7 collided with a young male child on the track adjacent to a level crossing near Nantawarra in the mid-north of South Australia.
[21] On 19 April 2020, freight train 5PM5 collided with a truck containing an adult male on the track adjacent to the level crossing near Culburra in the south-east of South Australia.
[22] On 1 March 2023, a 74 year old woman was hit by an Adelaide bound train while crossing the line at East Grange railway station.
[23] On 18 April 2023, police and paramedics were called to Sixth Avenue and Railway Terrace in Ascot Park after a man on a bicycle was struck by an Adelaide bound train.
[24] On December 31 2023, emergency services were called to the Barrier Highway after Pacific National train 7SP5 with NR41/NR79 collided with a truck.
[27] ON 28 March 1914, a boiler of the second engine of the Quorn goods train that had departed from Port Augusta exploded with devastating effect.
[34] On 17 April 1987, two men were injured when two crewless locomotives slipped their brakes, ran away and crashed head-on into parked diesels.
[35] On 11 July 1989, 65 people were injured when the Australian National operated Adelaide-bound Indian Pacific collided with a packed passenger train standing on the Redhill railway siding.
A board of inquiry set-up after the collision blamed the driver of the Indian Pacific for failing to heed two warning signals before ploughing head-on into the Express Limited.
[36] On 14 December 1992, two people were injured when an Australian National grain train, powered by three diesel locos, collided with a fully laden semi-trailer, at a level crossing at Kyancutta.
The truck immediately burst into flames, but the three engine drivers risked their lives and pulled the two injured people free.
CFS staff cut the couplings to the front loco, which was on fire, and the drivers reversed the rest of the train from danger.
[38] On 6 August 2007, a loaded sewage truck drove into the path of the south-bound passenger train, The Ghan (7DA8), at the Murrow Farm level crossing near Two Wells.
[55] At about 1448 on Wednesday 5 March 2008, a double road-train loaded with bulk cement drove into the path of a train that was conveying four empty fuel tankers at the Stirling Street level crossing, Birkenhead.
[58] On 8 October 2010, freight train 5MP5 travelling from Melbourne to Perth reported having derailed on the Defined Interstate Rail Network (DIRN) between Wirrega and Keith.
[59] On 25 November 2010, freight train 4DA2 derailed on the Central Australian Railway line just south of Cadney Park.
At about the same time a second commuter train (G231) with 22 passengers on board that was departing the Adelaide Station passed signal 141 located at the end of platform 3 at low speed.
[62] On 6 May 2011, freight train 4PM6 derailed the trailing bogie of the 49th wagon (RQHY 07069C) at Port Augusta near the Carlton Parade level crossing (91.559 km).
[63] On 28 May 2011, intermodal freight train 5MP9 was travelling from Melbourne to Perth when it experienced a catastrophic failure of a locomotive wheel at about the 849.700 track kilometre mark near Fisher on the Nullarbor Plain.