View north across the platform at the former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanwell_Park_railway_station" class="extiw" title="w:Stanwell Park railway station">Stanwell Park railway station</a>, after an accident involving the collision of a passenger and cargo goods train on the platform itself. Photographed on 18 January 1907, likely by then-Sydney accident train leader William Ellis, the scene involved a number of cargo carts crushed up against its locomotive, by the locomotive of the northbound passenger train headed towards <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_railway_station,_Sydney" class="extiw" title="w:Central railway station, Sydney">Sydney Central</a>. Passengers alight the passenger train in the aftermath, as they await a cleanup of the site to restart their journey. Accidents such as the one depicted in this photogrpah, were common on the original 1889 alignment of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Coast_railway_line,_New_South_Wales" class="extiw" title="w:South Coast railway line, New South Wales">South Coast railway line, New South Wales</a>, due to its steep gradients. From 1915 to 1920, a new alignment making use of a more flat gradient was constructed to replace it. Stanwell Park railway station was closed and a replacement station was opened higher up in the town's hillside.
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1907-01-18
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_National_University" title="Category:Australian National University">Australian National University</a> via Open Research<br>Handle <b>1885/195</b>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/195">Derailment at Stanwell Park, New South Wales</a>"