an excavator driver was killed when an XPT (WT27) service collided with his excavator. The man was part of a crew engaged in trackwork that did not obtain necessary track possessions before proceeding to cut up spare rails by the track, and was subsequently hit from behind by the XPT on a blind curve at 69 kilometres per hour. When the XPT collided with the excavator, the excavator was propelled along the track for about 20 m before the extended boom struck a utility vehicle parked on the southern side of the track. The excavator and utility vehicle were then pushed off the track and came to rest about 38 m from the point of initial impact. Central, 2016 An elderly woman died 15 days from her injuries sustained from falling down the carriage steps of a V set by the force of the train being shunted into another train. She was departing from the train which had just returned from Newcastle and had delayed disembarking from the train to prevent holding up other passengers on 10 August 2016. Tempe, 2017 A man was hit and killed by a train after he ran onto the tracks at Tempe railway station on 9 August 2017. Oatley, 2018 On 22 April 2018, a boy escaped from his carers and was hit and killed by a train at Oatley. The boy had been missing since approximately 8:20 pm the previous Sunday and the locals of Oatley had banded together to help look for him. It was with great sorrow that his body was found early that morning and to this day the community still mourns his passing Riverwood, 2018 At approximately some time before 14:50 on 5 September 2018, a man was struck and killed by a train at Riverwood railway station. He was on the tracks when he was killed and it is possible he was on the tracks with a friend spraying graffiti on a stationary train on the opposite track. Accidents involving injuries only Blandford, 1908 On 10 March 1908, the North-West mail train travelling from Moree to Sydney. Two carriages derailed. A female passenger sustained injuries. Picton Lakes (Couridjah), 1911 On 31 October 1911, there was a collision between the Sydney–Melbourne Mail express and a stock train. Nine passengers reported minor injuries. Hawkesbury River, 1925 A northbound goods train lost its brakes heading down Cowan Bank and ran into