HEAD-ON COLLISION
TWO GOODS TRAINS
THREE RAILWAYMEN KILLED
BRISBANE, December 2
Two goods trains collided early this morning between Hughenden and Richmond. The drivers of both trains, Herbert McMurtrie, aged 52, and George Bowler, aged 43, both married men, and one of the firemen, George Galton, aged 38, also married, "were killed. Three other persons, including two railway guards and one fireman, were injured.
The locomotives met head-on on a single track when travelling at 20 miles an hour. They were completely wrecked, being hurled from the rails and overturned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 9
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90HEAD-ON COLLISION Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 9
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