In the grey obscurity of the thick fog which overhung Melbourne yesterday morning, a dreadful disaster took place at the Richmond railway station. A train from ...
Article : 906 wordsThe passengers from the suburban trains that reached the central station a few minutes after 10 o'clock were making for the Swanston-street exit when they ...
Article : 972 wordsOutside the Richmond railway station cabs and motor-cars and bicycles collected, while hushed crowds gathered in the streets. Troopers were required to clear the roadwavs ...
Article : 246 wordsThe responsibility for signalling arrangements rests between Richmond and South Yarra. With a train in Richmond station there should not have been one so close ...
Article : 242 wordsIn the wards of Dr. Charles Ryan, the chief railway medical officer, the celerity with which doctors, nurses, ambulance men, and emergency accessories were on the ...
Article : 1,116 wordsIn view of all the circumstances, the wonder is not that the death-roll was so great, but that it was not greater. The two trains were running in the full tide of ...
Article : 1,516 wordsTwo signalmen were on duty at Riclimond when the disaster occurred. They were Mr. W. Bull, of St. Leonard street, Ascotvale, and Mr. J. Z. Mullens, of ...
Article : 438 wordsThe wrecked trains occupied the whole length of the Brighton platform at the Richmond station. The Brighton engine was driven several feet beyond the city end of ...
Article : 745 wordsThe fog begin to lift almost immediately after the accident, and though the signalbox and the river side of the platform were obscured by the mist, the wrecked ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 2,018 wordsOne of the regulations of the department provides that no one under the ago of 21 years shall be engaged in the positions of inspector, enginedriver, guard, signalman, ...
Article : 299 wordsThe scene at the Morgue was more painful than at Flinders-street, though, happily, there were fewer people there. The personal effects of those who had been ...
Article : 461 wordsMr. E. J. Prior, who was a passenger by the 8.37 a.m. train from Elsternwick, the second of the two trains, says:—"At Prahran the train started, and we had only gone ...
Article : 412 wordsAmong the first to undertake rescue work was Mr. E. F. Neal, of the Public Works department, who was in a train which was just running into the station when the crash ...
Article : 307 wordsBrighton up and down lines were blocked for some time after the accident. As soon as the dead and injured were cared for the casualty gang set to work to remove ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 19 Jul 1910, Page 12
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