down and up lines at Auburn, resulting in a complete recast of the affected electric services. To provide a reasonable service on the North Shore line, trains were transposed at Central, resulting in delays to trains and causing trains to catch up to those in front. A down electric commuter train "tripped" past a signal showing stop at the down end of Roseville platform into the section occupied by the preceding train. After recharging the brake air supply, the driver proceeded at above a cautious speed (40 mph rather than 15 mph) and came into violent collision with the train ahead. At the same time an up train was passing and hit the emergency brakes but came into contact with the telescoped cars of the initial collision, tearing the sides of that train away. There were no cases of serious injury to passengers on the three trains. The collision resulted in 3 carriages telescoping into the length of 1 carriage and remarkably only 10 passengers were taken to hospital. The subsequent inquiry placed the blame on the train driver, Francis Barrett. Barrett testified before the inquiry that his eyes had left the track due to an uncontrollable fit of coughing. An initial inquiry put the blame for the accident on a faulty train-stop trip brake equipment, but this was misleading. Maldon, 1952 At 6.30 am on 7 May 1952, two goods trains collided with each other 100 yards from Maldon station, located between Picton and Douglas Park Stations in the Southern Highlands. One of the drivers was seriously injured and taken to Camden Hospital. Lochinvar, 1959 On 19 August 1959, the North-West Mail ploughed into the rear of an almost stationary goods train. The fireman and driver of the mail train were injured. Geurie, 1963 On 23 August 1963, nineteen passengers were injured when the Sydney-bound Bourke Mail train when it collided with the front end of a goods train fouling the main line. Wentworth Falls, 1965 On 16 July 1965, two crew of a goods train were injured in a runaway train that derailed. Robertson, 1965 On 25 December 1965, an Up Freight train collided with a standing freight train. The moving freight train (Loco 4407)was traveling in an up direction entering the loop at Robertson station and coming out the other end and thus colliding with the stationary 45 class locomotive (Loco 4539) carrying freight in a down