a stationary light engine stopped at Hawkesbury River station. Riverstone, 1939 On Sunday 17 December 1939, a goods train collided with a passenger train at Riverstone on the Richmond line. Both engines and two carriages were thrown off the line and the permanent way was torn up for several yards. The train crews jumped from the locomotives when they saw that the collision was inevitable; the only man injured was Hilton Lynch, the fireman. The passengers were uninjured, although the collision was heard a considerable distance away. Merrylands, 1945 On 24 January 1945, an electric passenger train travelling from Liverpool to the city jumped the track on the bend approaching Merrylands railway station, causing the first four carriages to derail. The lead carriage flipped and spun, ripping open the following three carriages. The lead car slid along the tracks for 40 yards (approximately 36.5 metres), tearing up the rail lines in both directions, and fell down an embankment. The accident also caused electrical and telephone lines to be brought down. The driver, John Baldock, and 12 passengers were injured. A 7-inch (nearly 18 cm) bolt placed on the track was attributed to have caused the derailment. Rookwood, 1946 At about 7.45 am on 19 November 1946, the front two carriages of the 7.08 Liverpool to Wynyard service jumped the points and diverted onto the Sydney Abattoirs branch line, near Rookwood station. Both carriages derailed, and the second car began to topple, but hit a steel stanchion, which was bent into the "shape of a boomerang" by the impact. Somehow the stanchion held and prevented the carriage from falling over completely. Of the approximately 600 passengers on board, only two were immediately taken to hospital with injuries. Another five female passengers, who worked together at a Flemington spinning mill factory, were later transferred to hospital after they all collapsed at work. Eastwood, 1948 On 25 June 1948, the crew of the early morning coast milk train were slightly injured when their locomotive overran a stop signal at exit points and derailed. Between Hawkesbury River and Cowan Stations, 1948 On 11 June 1948, 100 people were injured when two express trains bound for Sydney collided. Roseville Collision, 1950 Three trains collided between Roseville and Lindfield stations on 28 July 1950. On the morning of 28 July, there was a serious dislocation of train traffic caused by the overhead power wiring fouling the