the track. 4 people, including 2 passengers, the guard and the driver were taken to hospital. A 47 year old man was charged for causing the derailment on 27 October 2021. (Allegedly) he had stole a minivan, using it to steal a go-kart before driving the van onto the tracks and fleeing the scene. Other accidents Springwood, 1923 On 20 May 1923, 26 trucks carrying cement and coal ran off the track along with the engine Lindfield, 1929 On 14 August 1929, there was a collision involving electric trains. The North Shore line had only just been electrified in 1928. Redfern Stables, 1957 Garratt class locomotive driven into turntable pit, resulting in disruption to services for days while cranes were brought in to remove the loco. Jannali, 1956 On 17 April 1956, early in the afternoon a Goods Train drawn by two diesel locomotives rounded a bend on a steep down-grade at slow speed and ten trucks jumped the line. The impact of the derailment hurled the heavy trucks 20 feet in the air, severing the overhead electric wires. The careering trucks tore up 50 yards of line and the other rail line was pushed 2 feet out of alignment for hundreds of yards. Robertson, 1965 On 25 December 1965, engine 4407 hauling freight collided head-on with a freight train standing at Robertson (hauled by 4539?). Central, 1966 On 25 January 1966, a derailed electric train carriage brought down a powerline stanchion at Central Station. Red Hill, Coffs Harbour, 1974 On 11 May 1974, a southbound freight train derailed when it collided with a "wall of red clay mud, rocks, trees and branches sealing off the exit of the tunnel." Driver and fireman exited through windows of the 44 class locomotive. St Marys, 1977 On 11 July 1977, a carriage was derailed on as Blue Mountains train, a kilometre west of St Marys Station. There were 600 passengers on the train but no one was hurt. Springwood, 1987 Interurban electric train derailed by vandals placing rocks on the track just west of Springwood, causing the leading two cars to end up in a local resident's front yard on Macquarie Rd, Springwood on 29 September 1987 Waterfall collision, 1994 Two S set electric trains collided in the early hours of the morning during a shunting procedure at Waterfall station in the south of Sydney. Both trains were empty of passengers. Carriages