Railway accidents in Tasmania

[19] On 29 June 1886 at 10:27pm, a special excursion train on the Main Line returning with visitors that attended the opening ceremony of the Fingal Railway ran off the rails while turning the six chain curves between Campania and Brighton.

[22] On 23 June 1887 at approximately 7:00am, the body of a middle aged man was found in a table drain alongside the railway line at Jordan's Cutting 0.80 km (0.5 miles) on the Evandale side of Perth.

[57] On 27 March 1914 at approximately 7:40pm, a 30-year-old man from Broadmarsh was killed and his wife seriously injured at a level crossing above the North Bridgewater railway station when his four-wheeled vehicle being driven by two horses collided with the Brighton to Hobart train.

[58] On 9 December 1914 at 6:40pm, a 25-year-old woman was killed when her horse drawn buggy collided with the Launceston to Hobart express at Russell's level crossing (formerly known as the Willows) on the Main Line 1.21 km (0.75 miles) on the Campania side of the Tea Tree station.

[81] On 2 December 1921 at approximately 11:00am, a 50 year old carpenter from Derwent Park received serious injuries when the motor lorry he was a passenger in collided with the Midland mixed train at the Albert Road level crossing in Moonah.

[110] On 1 January 1930 at 12:30pm, a 33-year-old man, his 23 year old wife, and their four month old son were killed with four other people injured when the vehicle of a travelling pantomime company collided with a Launceston bound train at the Wivenhoe railway station level crossing.

[112] On 15 March 1930, a 19-year-old man and his 8-year-old sister were killed when the Launceston to Wynyard passenger train collided with their single-seater Essex car at a Spreyton level crossing as they were returning from a trip to Latrobe.

[123] On 9 June 1934, a 23 year old teacher from the Strahan State School fell from a train about 1.6 km (1 mile) from the Regatta Point station on the Mount Lyell Company's railway line and was killed.

[125] On 28 December 1934, a 12-year-old girl was killed and nine others injured when a passenger train bound from Burnie to Wynyard crossed a culvert at Doctors Rocks that had been undermined by flood waters and collapsed under the weight of the tender.

[126] On 7 August 1935 at approximately 8:30pm, a woman received fatal injuries at a level crossing near Powranna railway station when the vehicle being driven by her husband struck a stationary truck on which was mounted a 5,000 gallon petrol tank.

[131] On 1 September 1936 at approximately 1:00pm, a 65-year-old man was killed when the steam railway car from Launceston to Burnie ran into him at the level crossing near Rooke Street in Victoria Parade, Devonport while he was cycling to work.

[134] On 31 October 1937 at approximately 12:35am, a brother and sister aged 25 and 19 years respectively received fatal injuries when their sedan car crashed into a stationary goods train from Devonport on the northern Conara level crossing after attending a social at Epping.

[141] On 26 April 1938 at approximately 5:15am, a 27 year old porter from South Burnie employed by the Emu Bay Railway was killed instantly in a shunting accident when his foot became caught between the joints of two rails and he was run over by a string of trucks loaded with calcines.

[171] On 9 December 1944 at approximately 11:30am, a 37 year old police trooper and his 9-year-old daughter were killed at the station crossing on the Fenton Highway at Macquarie Plains when his motorcycle and sidecar collided with a diesel rail car travelling from New Norfolk.

[177] On 16 March 1946 at 9:15am, a goods train hauling twenty trucks of coal and timber crashed through an embankment weakened by flooding 16 km (10 miles) east of Avoca killing the 41 year old driver from Conara.

[190] On 9 August 1948 at approximately 12:30pm, a 45-year-old man from South Springfield received fatal injuries when he was thrown into a cattle guard after the vehicle he was a passenger in collided with a train travelling from Herrick to Scottsdale.

[192] On 19 August 1948, an 18-year-old man from Brighton[193] was killed when he was struck by the engine of a northbound train about 16 m (18 yards) on the southern side of the Regatta Ground level crossing in the Queens Domain, Hobart.

[205] On 26 September 1951, a 78-year-old man from Sulphur Creek and his 26-year-old granddaughter from Latrobe were killed when the car in which they were travelling in the direction of Devonport struck a diesel rail-car at the Reibey Street crossing in Ulverstone.

[206] On 4 October 1951 at 4:59pm, a 23-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman from Deloraine were killed when their old model touring car collided with a diesel electric special goods train travelling from Railton to Launceston at a level crossing on the Perth-Carrick road near the cemetery.

[226] On 27 April 1961 at approximately 1:00pm, a 73-year-old woman from Sandy Bay received fatal injuries when the late model German sedan being driven by her 74 year old husband was struck by a goods train travelling towards Hobart.

[232] On 16 April 1963 at approximately 12:30pm, a 44-year-old woman from Dynnyrne was killed instantly when the Tasman Limited passenger train travelling from Wynyard to Hobart ploughed into her small panel van at a level crossing on a straight stretch of the Bass Highway between Hagley and Westbury.

[235] On 23 December 1966 at approximately 10:00am, a 65-year-old man and his 56 year old wife from Melbourne were killed when a train travelling from Parattah to Hobart ploughed into their station wagon at the Lampton Avenue level crossing in Derwent Park.

[238] On 26 January 1970, a 26-year-old man was killed and his 24 year old wife seriously injured when his sedan ran into the side of the Launceston to Hobart passenger train at Hobler's Bridge Road railway level crossing.

[255] On 22 July 1998 at approximately 6:45pm, a 39-year-old woman from Hobart was killed and her 11-year-old daughter critically injured when their four-wheel drive Toyota Landcruiser was struck by a northbound goods train while turning right into a long driveway in Old Main Road beside the Derwent River at Granton.

[262] On 24 April 1877, the ordinary train was travelling on the Main Line from Launceston to Hobart Town when a defective rail gave way under the engine while crossing an embankment known as the Coal Mine Creek between Jerusalem and Flat Top Tunnel.

[263] On 20 September 1893 at approximately 8:00pm, the Launceston to Hobart express train on the Main Line derailed due to sabotage on the Horseshoe Bridge that spanned Ironstone Gully, a 20 m (65 feet) chasm, 0.40 km (0.25 miles) south of Brighton Junction station.

[272] On 5 December 1970 at approximately 5:45pm, the lead engine of the Tasman Limited travelling from Hobart to Burnie collided with a semi-trailer leaving the North-West Acid Plant at a level crossing on River Road, Wivenhoe.

[273] On 25 February 1971 at approximately 1:30pm, a 46-year-old man from Burnie driving a semi-trailer hauling several tons of pulp wood logs was struck by a Launceston-bound goods train at the Durkins Road crossing in Quoiba.

[277] On 28 September 1989 at approximately 6:30am, a truck fully laden with woodchips collided with a coal train travelling from Burnie to Fingal at a level crossing near the Symmons Plains Raceway on the Midland Highway at Powranna.

The driver had just driven a party of twenty Camberwell Grammar schoolboys and their four escorts safely from the Cradle Mountain National Park to catch a plane back to Melbourne from the Burnie Airport.