rails, shot off the track to the left in the vicinity of the level crossing at Bridge Street, collided with and smashed the crossing gate and signal post and travelled some distance down Bridge Street before coming to a stand. Lithgow Zig-Zag, 1908 On 8 December 1908, a locomotive hauling a Sydney-bound stalled on the 1 in 30 gradient near the Clarence tunnel. The engine-driver decided to divide the train. Unfortunately the engineman's mate did not release the air in the brakes. The second portion of the trained rolled downwards. The train's guard fell from his guard van and was injured. However, the guard of a stationary goods train that the runaway wagons ran into was killed. Ardglen Tunnel, 1909 On 27 November 1909, the fireman on engine T727 was scalded to death by escaping steam spewed from its funnel in the Ardglen Tunnel (between Werris Creek and Murrurundi.) Brooklyn, 1913 On 8 October 1913 at around 10:00 pm, a migrant who was employed as a packer on the railway, was run over by a north-bound train and killed. The body, which was terribly mutilated, was not found till about 6.00am the following morning (9th). Exeter, 1914 On 13 March 1914, fourteen passengers killed and thirty-two injured when the Temora mail train crashed into a stationary train. Moss Vale, 1914 On 12 May 1914, one killed and five injured in the vicinity of Bong Bong Bridge when an express goods train from Goulburn crashed into the rail trolley on which they were travelling. Hurstville train disaster, 1920 On 30 August 1920, five people were killed when a train shunted into the back of a locomotive at Hurstville station. The Aberdeen Accident, 1926 Derailment of Brisbane Express caused by faulty track and collapse of flood openings by washaways. Five people were killed and 39 injured. Murulla train accident, 1926 On 13 September 1926, a collision at Murulla. The collision resulted in the death of 26 persons.(Gunn has 27 fatalities.) Eastwood, 1940 An engine driver was killed in similar circumstance to the Eastwood, 1948 accident detailed below. Brooklyn, 1944 Total of sixteen were killed and at least four others critically injured following a collision on 15 January 1944 between the Tamworth mail train and a bus at a level crossing a short distance from Hawkesbury River station. The engine of the train struck the bus, which contained 21 passengers. Central, 1947 On