 On 3 March 1983 twenty-four people were injured when a train derailed near St Marys station.On 22 July 1993 the driver of an empty inter-urban electric passenger train was injured after his train ploughed into two stationary electric locomotives.On 23 October 1997 a coal train collided into the rear of another coal train standing on the same track at Beresfield station in the Hunter Valley.