A soft covered book of 74 pages describing the Sunshine Railway Disaster of 1908 and the subsequent inquiry. It includes illustrations.non-fictionThe book is written by railway historian, Tom Rigg, and outlines the railway disaster of 20 April 1908 when two trains collided at Sunshine, and 44 people lost their lives. The book covers actions prior to the crash, a description of the collision, the working conditions of the railway staff and the subsequent inquest and investigation into the collision.sunshine railway disaster, disaster, railways, sunshine railway station, tom rigg

World War 2 - Local Newspaper dated 20/8/1942 - Special - My War Part 29Local Newspaper Dated 20/8/1942 - Special - My War Part 29- The Dieppe DisasterLocal Newspaper reporting On Events of World War 2 - My War Part 29 - The Dieppe DisasterCommando Raid On France - The Dieppe Disasterworld war 2, local newspaper dated 20/8/1942, my war part 28

The Sunshine railway disaster - who was to blame - Coroners searching enquiry . A book by W O Bagley published in 1909non-fictionA book detailing the findings of the Coronial Inquest into the 1908 Sunshine Railway Disaaster.sunshine railway disaster, disaster, railways, sunshine railway station

Australasia No. 2 Mine, Creswick, was one of the worst mine disasters. It occurred on 12 December 1882.Blue covered booklet of 16 pagesInscription on cover from donor. Signature of author on back pagecentenary, disaster, mine, creswick, ballad, story, harry pearce

Notes relate to the 'Sad Fatal Accident' involving Martha Williams at Hiscock's [Mine]; also Locomotive Mine Disaster, 1933; 1850s mining accident involving Robert Blyth; Notes of the Trial Saw Mill at Buninyong.gold mining, inquests, buninyong, imperial mine, mining, trial saw mill, forestry

Original postcard showing a group of about 20 people surveying the scene of the Waggonette Disaster that occurred on the Coach Road at Devils Elbow on 27/12/1911. The accident occurred at Devil's Elbow where now the Old Coach Road and Jasper Road meet at a cliff face. John Lundy-Clarke made a ballad about the mishap. The waggonnette was returning from an excursion to the Brooklyn Guest House in Montrose. The horses were killed and passengers presumably injured (a doctor attended). See 'The Brooklyn Dray"On front of postcard: DEVILS ELBOW MT DANDENONG SCENE OF WAGGONETTE ACCIDENT 27.12.1911wagonette, wagon, accident, disaster, devil's elbow, devils elbow, john lundy-clarke, ballad, coach road, old coach road

The New Australasian Gold Mining Company's No 2 shaft was flooded on 12 December 1882, trapping 27 miners, 22 of whom died despite heroic efforts to save them. A number of photographs of the memorial to those who died in the New Australasian Mine Disaster, including names of those who died.new australasian mine disaster memorial, creswick cemetery, creswick old cemetery

Two ring folder with documents insidenon-fictionThe Heritage Collections Council's mission is to promote excellence in the management, care and provision of access to Australia' heritage collections. The Heritage Collections Council saw that providing guidelines to the museum section to help them prepare useful disaster preparedness plans was seen as a vital step towards achieving their mission. These guidelines will help small museums and historical societies in preparing disaster plans for their collections.

Series of 7 prints of Sunshine Railway Disaster 1908, which killed 40 people|The Bendigo test train at Sunshine Station Preparing for the running tests WO Bagley|Comparing notes at the conclusion of a test|Bendigo train|Crane from the Newport workshop|The railway accident at Sunshine|What was left of the smashed four wheeled carriages of the Ballarat trainsunshine railway station, sunshine, railway, disaster

Folded A3 Sheet, colour printed, titled "Public Transport Hit Hard by Budget Disaster!", issued by 14 Unions, Victorian Trades Hall Council, dated August 1989, looking at the transport budget for 1989 - staff cuts, jobs, Met ticket system light rail proposal for Upfield, Western Bypass and action being taken by Unions to resist these cuts.trams, tramways, unions, transport, budgets, vthc

On 20 April 1908, at about 10:50 pm, a Melbourne‑bound Bendigo express ran into the rear of a Ballarat train standing at Sunshine Station. The collision occurred at the junction at Sunshine railway station, on the Bendigo and Ballarat lines in Sunshine, Victoria. It was Australia's worst railway accident, and the impact was catastrophic, destroying several wooden carriages and causing a mass‑casualty event with 44 people killed and over 400 injured.Sunshine Rail Disastersunshine railway disaster, sunshine station, sunshine

Soft cover bookletArticle on the Sunshine Railway Disaster of 1908railway, sunshine railway disaster

356.01 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - Detective Burvett 356.02 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - Comparing Notes At The Conclusion Of A Test 356.03 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - The Railway Accident At Sunshine 356.04 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - Clearing The Line 356.05 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - All That Was Left Of One Of The Smashed Four Wheeled Carriages On The Ballarat Train 356.06 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - The Bendigo Train 356.07 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - The Sunshine Platform Strewn With Portions Of The Wrecked Carriages 356.08 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - Scene On Platform Next Day 356.09 - Sunshine Rail Disaster Investigations - Display Information Labelsunshine rail disaster, sunshine station, sunshine

The Great Kantō Earthquake of 1 September 1923 devastated the major cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, as well as five other surrounding prefectures and was one of the world’s worst natural disasters of the early twentieth century. In terms of loss of life and material damage, with an estimated 140,000 deaths and countless homeless, it is still Japan’s worst national disaster. Nearly 90% of the newspaper printers were destroyed in the earthquake. These postcards were not produced for aesthetics but as a major tool for the spread of information. Seeing how newspaper companies were left with their offices in shambles, postcard publishers tried to fill the gap hence some were in three languages. A very small number of publishing companies were fortunate enough to survive, one of them being Mitsumura Printing, which took advantage of its remaining resources to churn out postcards. When the Ōsaka Mainichi Shinbunsha published its bilingual three-volume photographic pictorial of the Great Kantō Earthquake just two weeks after the event, the calamity had already been captured in thousands of images that circulated on a national and international media highway. Commercial photographers and photojournalists produced the most abundant and immediate images of the quake, which were transmitted in newspapers, special-issue newspaper pictorials, commemorative photography collections, illustrated survivors’ accounts, and sets of commemorative postcards. These photographic images functioned as both news and souvenirs, rendering their consumers/viewers, inside and outside the devastated locale, into both witnesses and voyeurs. Images in the news media and those issued by respected publishing houses carried the visual authority of supposed facticity. As such they both produced and became the historical record of the event. Since the vast majority of 1923 disaster postcards that survive have no writing on them, they were likely treated more as collectibles than as a form of postal communication. Many were put into albums, creating new ways to combine images and create visual cultures of disaster for home viewing. Accordion-style albums allowed for personalized, serial organization of images that produced unique, imagistic narratives of the event. The album pages were also two-sided and could be stretched out to view a series of images on recto and verso. References: Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 震災をイメージ化する　東京と1923年関東大震災のヴィジュアルカルチャー - The Asia. (2024, March 31). Retrieved from https://apjjf.org/2015/13/6/gennifer-weisenfeld/4270 The Great Kanto Earthquake: Postcards of Tragedy. (2024, March 31). Retrieved from https://www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_culture/japanese-culture/the-great-kanto-earthquake-postcards/ See also: Postcards from Hell – Glimpses of the Great Kantō Earthquake; M. William STEELE (International Christian University, Japan) 14th Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies: Visual Culture and Postcard Research Papers – East Asia Image Collection Blog. (2024, March 31). Retrieved from https://sites.lafayette.edu/eastasia/2014/09/01/14th-conference-of-the-european-association-of-japanese-studies-visual-culture-and-postcard-research-papers/] And https://icu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/4503/files/ACS44_01Steele.pdfThis item, a souvenir from Japan from between the wars (circa 1923) was brought home to Research, Victoria by Bill Teagle who was serving in the Royal Australian Navy (1919-1945). Bill Teagle's sister Violet Amelda Teagle had married Theodore (Curly) Feldbauer in 1933. Bill's brother-in-law Curly was taken as a Prisoner of War by the Japanese and died at Sandakan in March 1945. The family did not learn of Curly’s death till months later and Bill's sister, Violet, herself could never forgive the Japanese for what happened to Curly. Curly is remembered on the Eltham Roll of Honour Board and his son, Albert Feldbauer (Bill’s nephew and youngest child of the children of the soldier fathers attending a school in the district), was given the honour of turning the first sod for the Eltham War Memorial Infant Welfare Centre Building. Despite this, the family maintained this cherished souvenir from a time of previous foreign friendship with Japan. The item was possibly given by Bill Teagle to his sister Margaret Rose (formerly Ingram) who later married Richard Edward (Eddie) Fielding in early 1948. (Eddie had been engaged to someone else before he went to war, but his fiancée broke it off before his return to Australia.) It was cared for by the Teagle/Fielding family for approximately one hundred years. It is of particular significance given the family's connection to the Eltham War Memorial and the significance of that memorial to the local community and represents that despite the horrors of war, former friends then foes can become friends again.tom fielding collection, japanese postcard, postcard, 1923, great kanto earthquake, japan, tokyo, yokohama

Sunshine Railway Disasters: Lists of People Killed & Injuredsunshine rail disaster, sunshine station, sunshine

Commemorating Sunshine Rail Disaster - A collaborative community event 1908 - 2008 Unveiling the plaque commemorating 100th anniversary of the Sunshine Rail Disastersunshine rail disaster, sunshine station, sunshine

Five photographs documenting attendance at the ceremony to unveil plaque in rembereance if the railway disaster at Sunshine Station 20th April 1908 592-1- Hon R Cooper MLA Minister of Transport and Mr I Baker MLA state member for Sunshine 592-2- Hon R Cooper addressing audience 592-3- Plaque at Sunshine Railway Station 592-4- Descendents of Albert Ellingsen killed in accident R2L Ms Merle Hutson nee Ellingsen and Daughter Mrs Batten 592-5- R2L Prof John Lack J Rigg Frank Ford Unknow Norm DePomeroy Includes negatives.sunshine railway disaster, disaster, railways, sunshine railway station

Sunshine Rail Disaster 20th April 1908 Newspaper Printoutssunshine rail disaster, sunshine station, sunshine

Heading: "Lucky Escapes run in family" This little boy was spared death by a matter of seconds in Victoria's worst railway disaster at Sunshine 100 years ago. His luck has continued for his descendant, a daughter who walked from a train wreck in Ballan that injured 30 people on the same kine in 2003sunshine railway disaster, disaster, railways, sunshine railway station

Collection of Newspaper Articles 70 Swan Drive Derrimut Fire|Collection of Newspaper Articles Coode Island Fire|Collection Newspaper Articles Westage Bridge Collapse including the construction sequence of the steel spans|Newpaper Article Star Weekly 4th October 2022 Pedestrian killed Ballarat Rd Sunshine|Newpaper Article Star Weekly 4th July 2023 Teenage boy dies after attack St. Albans|Newpaper Article Star Weekly 7th February 2023 Motorcyclist dies Keilor Park Driveaccident, disaster

Sunday 20 April 2003 Sunshine & Disctrict Historical Society, The 95th Anniversary Of The Sunshine Rail Disastersunshine rail disaster, sunshine station

Bridge DisasterAll related to Bridge Disaster at 1997 Maccabiah Games. A4 correspondence. 01: Special Report by MWU (Maccabi World Union) on Bridge Disaster June 1999 02: Folder of correspondence re aftermath of Bridge Disaster (Colin Elterman) 03: Folder of Correspondence re Memorial Service for the Bridge Disaster 04: Newspaper articles re Bridge Disastermaccabiah games 15

Bridge DisasterAll related to Bridge Disaster at 1997 Maccabiah Games. A4 correspondence. 01: Special Report by MWU (Maccabi World Union) on Bridge Disaster June 1999 02: Folder of correspondence re aftermath of Bridge Disaster (Colin Elterman) 03: Folder of Correspondence re Memorial Service for the Bridge Disaster 04: Newspaper articles re Bridge Disastermaccabiah games 15

Bridge Disaster02 related to Bridge Disaster at 1997 Maccabiah Games. A4 correspondence. 01: Special Report by MWU (Maccabi World Union) on Bridge Disaster June 1999 02: Folder of correspondence re aftermath of Bridge Disaster (Colin Elterman) 03: Folder of Correspondence re Memorial Service for the Bridge Disaster 04: Newspaper articles re Bridge Disastermaccabiah games 15

Article on the Sunshine Railway Disaaster of 1908.The Sunshine Railway Disaster by John Buckland Easter Monday 20/04/1908sunshine railway disaster, sunshine railway station, railway, sunshine, john buckland

Provides information to ambulance crew responding to a major disaster.White paper with red text. Logos of Hospitals and Charities Commission and Ambulance Service Victoria on front cover.MAJOR DISASTER ROUTINEmass casualty event