Train Incidents
Nov. 23rd, 2010 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithWas just checking for news about train holdup/robberies in the actual news. None* but plenty of collisions, derailments and I didn't know they could actually do that.**
QUEENSLAND NEWS
A wonderful escape from death occurred on the railway line at the Dawson bridge on Thursday night. The guard of the down goods train observed a child lying on the line. The train was immediately slowed, and the cow catcher gently pushed the child down between the rails, the train passing over it without inflicting any injury.
The Queenslander, 28 October 1882
QUEENSLAND
Two hundred unemployed navvies seized a goods train at Helidon to-day. The Minister of Works met them and remonstrated. He promised to stop all immigration except under the remittance system. The mob then dispersed. A committee of navvies intend waiting on the Government.
Launceston Examiner, 27 August 1866
*Due to too many mail coaches, I assume
** Or a fear of the trains falling off the rails at the time
QUEENSLAND NEWS
A wonderful escape from death occurred on the railway line at the Dawson bridge on Thursday night. The guard of the down goods train observed a child lying on the line. The train was immediately slowed, and the cow catcher gently pushed the child down between the rails, the train passing over it without inflicting any injury.
The Queenslander, 28 October 1882
QUEENSLAND
Two hundred unemployed navvies seized a goods train at Helidon to-day. The Minister of Works met them and remonstrated. He promised to stop all immigration except under the remittance system. The mob then dispersed. A committee of navvies intend waiting on the Government.
Launceston Examiner, 27 August 1866
*Due to too many mail coaches, I assume
** Or a fear of the trains falling off the rails at the time
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Date: 2010-11-23 10:33 am (UTC)Ah, this makes sense.
Back in the mid-1980s, to commemorate some event that I can't recall, there was a special steam train making trips from Launceston down to some place in the Midlands. It passed along the valley below our place so we had occasional glimpses of it. Anyway, they added on a couple of extra trips, the rain set in, the river rose and I think they ended up sending a boat in to "rescue" the passengers. (We thought it quite funny at the time because they were very expensive tickets.)