In April 1908 at the Sunshine Railway Station, a train travelling to Melbourne from Ballarat was struck by a train from Bendigo, resulting in 44 deaths and over 400 injured passengers. Tom Rigg was a former station master at St Albans station and author of a book on the Sunshine Train disaster.Launch of T. Rigg Sunshine Railway Disaster 1908 1/5/2008tom rigg, sunshine train disaster

Brimbank Messenger 16th November 1999 Newspapersunshine train disaster, h.v.mckay, overnewton castle, kings park secondary collage, keilor, sunshine, kings park

The Sunshine Railway Disaster was a catastrophic rear‑end collision at Sunshine Station on 20 April 1908, killing 44 people and injuring more than 400, the worst rail accident in Victoria’s history. The official inquiry found the Bendigo train passed a signal at danger, likely due to brake failure, and could not stop in time. This accident led to major reforms in Victorian railway safety, including: - Stronger steel‑framed carriages. - Improved braking systems. - Better signalling and traffic control. - The disaster remains a defining moment in Sunshine’s early 20th‑century history. April 1998 Sunshine Rail Disaster Tom Riggsunshine rail disaster, sunshine railway disaster, sunshine station, tom rigg

Ernest, Alfred, and Otto Wunderlich founded the Wunderlich company in Sydney in 1885. The company expanded into Melbourne with a showroom located in Queen Street, Melbourne. The North Sunshine factory on McIntyre Road opened in 1927 producing glazed terracotta tiles, faience cladding, and later asbestos‑based products including Durabestos sheets and pipes. In 1969, CSR purchased Wunderlich. In 1977 CSR sold the Sunshine site to James Hardie. The factory closed down in 1983. The site was then redeveloped into the Westend Market Hotel and Dan Murphy’s. In the mid‑2010s, a cluster of mesothelioma cases among North Sunshine residents was linked to historical asbestos exposure from the factory.The Sunshine Wunderlich factory was one of Melbourne’s major interwar industrial employers. It contributed to Sunshine’s identity as a manufacturing hub alongside the H.V. McKay / Massey Ferguson Sunshine Harvester Works. This small book records only a very small number of employees who worked at the factory. The list was put together by former Wunderlich employee Walter "Wally" O'Brien.Front - T/Cotta Wunderlich Staff 1st Page Don Forte, Silvio, Tich Johnon, Sebastian Granata, Fred Willaton, Jack Lewis, George Griggs (Greigs), Ben George Simon, Whisky (Not Wally), Priot Albert Willaton (Son of Fred), Albert Elllingson (Killed on train disaster is his Grand Father)wunderlich, mcintyre road, sunshine north

The Braybrook Junction railway station was opened on 7th September 1885 at the junction of the railway lines to Ballarat and to Bendigo. In 1904 H. V. McKay purchased the Braybrook Implement Works nearby, and in 1906 he moved his Sunshine Harvester Works agricultural machinery business from Ballarat to Braybrook Junction. In 1907 the station and township were renamed Sunshine after the Sunshine Harvester Works. On 20 April 1908 (Easter Monday), Sunshine station was the scene of the biggest train disaster in Victoria, when 44 people were killed and 400 injured from the 1100 people that were aboard the two trains. A Melbourne bound train from Bendigo collided with the rear of a train from Ballarat. There is a memorial plaque on platform 1 at the present Sunshine station. Sunshine station has recently been undergoing a complete rebuild. On 20 January 2014 the station, although not yet completed, was opened for train use, after being closed for several weeks.This photograph is significant because it is a reminder that the present Sunshine station and the nearby area were once named Braybrook Junction. It also shows what the Station, the Signal Box, and the station personnel looked like in circa 1905.BRAYBROOK JUNCTNbraybrook junction station, railway, sunshine, train, transport, 1905, 1907, 1908, 7 september 1885

The Sunshine rail disaster occurred on 20 April 1908 at the junction at Sunshine railway station (in Sunshine, Victoria, Australia) when a Melbourne-bound train from Bendigo collided with the rear of a train from Ballarat. 44 people were killed and over 400 injured, almost all of them from the Ballarat train, as the Bendigo train was cushioned by its two locomotives.Sunshine Railway Disaster Tom Rigg MS Word Files TR 28/2/08sunshine railway disaster, tom rigg

These scrap books were put together by Tom Riggs, a past St. Albans Train Station Master, St. Albans Centenary Committee & Sunshine & District Historical Society member and they record a history of a wide range of subjects referring to the Sunshine & District. The following list is only a brief description of each scrapbook. 663.01 - People in official postions 1908|H.V. McKay Factory Gates|Part layout in vicinity of Sunshine Railway Station map 1910|Sunshine Station Signal Box|Harvester Museum|H.V. McKay|H.V. McKay Bulk Store|Sunshine's colorful history|Family of Nathaniel & Mary McKay family tree|Sunshine Smithy|Braybrook residents 1903 & 1906 Sands & McDougal listing|Nat & Joyce Wright|Sunshine Market Palce|Sunshine new police station|Sunshine new post office|S&DHS newspaper articles|Black Powder Mill|Deer Park St. John's Anglican Church|Robert Eric Parsons|Rubblish dumping issue|Bob & Cyril Parsons|Deer Park Bypass|Sunshine Leisure Centre|Sunshine Station Interchange|Dorothy Price|Sunshine Hospital expansion|Albert & Amy Russell|Wally O'Brien|Hospital pedestrain crossing|Our Lady's Primary School reunion|Mytle Baylis|Darling Albion Flour Mill|Pokie machines|Harricks Cottage|Jack Tighe|Cr Brooke Gujinovic New Brimank Mayor|Jack Collins|Isabella Williams Reserve|Cairnlea developement|Albert Holden|Old Sunsine Police Station Sun Crescent|Big bins|Phyllis Vance|Sunshine Pipe Band|Dick & Elsie Whiting|Historic house denmiolition|Boom gate deley|Brian & Doreen Duffy|Beth Argyle|Sunshine Railway Disaster|Les Hunter|Sunshine Pool closure protest|Clare Brennan|Mickey Vautier|Jack Sheridan|Balam Balam Reserve|Gwen Goedecke|Derrimut Hotel & licensee Wal Elms|Jimmy Gaylor|John & Leone Hawking|Centrelink move|Joan Carstairs|Hampshire Road roadworks|Lloyd McCallum postman retires|Mavis Kittelty & Sunshine Croquet Club closes|Frank O'Connor|Beth Argyle, Don Deeble, Shirley Wallace & Jack Sheridan|Sunshine Anglican Church & Father Stuart Soley|Ian Baker|Morris Street proposed flat development protest|Brimbank's rich cultural history|Church of Christ|Doreen Foster & Albion Tennis Club|Francis & Lillian Allen|Sunshine Wesleyan Methodist Churst|3LO-3AR radio transmitter|George & Gloria Hales|H.V. McKay Medal Trade Wing|Lorna Cameron|Noala Flynn|St. Ablans Baptist Church & Ralph Phillips|Apostolic Christian Church|Keilor Christian City Church|Sunshine City Band|Maidstone Our Ladys of Perpetual Church|Waterways|Ron & Margaret Craker 663.02 - Black Powder Mill|St. Albans Greek Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeve|Western Ring Road traffic|Joseph & Frances Testa|Sydneham Kimgdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses|Sydenham The Assemblies of God|Michael & Rosalia Skok|Werribee's State Rose Gardens|Tom & Maria Diele|Tom Rigg and the origin of the district's street names|Sunshine & St. Albans Baptist Church|ICI Estate protest|Sunshine Salvation Army Church|Macedonian Orthodox Church|Anita-Marie Neumann|Albanvale path of recongnition|Sunshine Pool action group|Minnie Gorsuch|State Election 2000|Jean Folry & Ilma Weir|Brimbank Uniting Church|Harvester Town book launch - Olwen Ford|Brooke Jujinovic|Keilor Cemetery grave stones|John Howard ignores Braybrook|Norman & Joan Wales|Clare Brennan Drive named after Clare Brennan|Fosseys Sunshine closure|Commonwealth Bank (CBA) Glengala Road closuer|James Frederick McKay|A history of Sunshine|H.V. McKay's Russell Street gates|Barry McMahon|Sunshine Swimming Pool Aquatic centre sale|Keith Buckley|Migrants' move to brave new world|Vasilos & Eugenia Karaoglandis|William Hyett|Darryl Myers|Kathleen Inkster|Sunshine RSL Kevin Keegan, Kevin Bryar & Fred Russell|Barney & Renee Cater|Mona Malouf|George Carter|Sunshine Pottery memorabilia & reunion|Des Johnson Duke Street Aborigine artifacts|Albert Drayton|Two pools planned|Sunshine Pool repairs approved|Olympic Tooch journey through Brimbank|Maurice & Kathleen Sanders|Paul & Suzanna Vicek|Deer Park By Pass Road|Bert & Noreen Craddock|St. Albans Legless Lizards under fire|Sunshine rare orchid scare|St. Albans Road black spot|Viet name for Burke street|Russell Street gates unveiling ceremony|Don & Val Byrnes|Emily Hall|Sunshine Swim centre|Water action plans|Melton Highway sugar gum tree removal by Vicroads|Sunshine Police Station Olympic Rings Brick|Emmaus Catholic School Sydenham opening|Black Powder Mill|Stevens Farm House fire|Yvonne Flack|Frank Gathercole|Commonwealth Bank closurer|Marion Martin|Deer Park State School|Tom & Flo Beagley|Call for railway land buffer|Clarrie Salvador|Braybrook Hotel|Sunshine Harvester Smithy|2000, A year to remember|Bus Re-route hits traders|Sunshine Swimming Pool end of life|Pam Chapman|Prune Goldrick - When the Whistle Blew|Wally O'Brien recalls Deer Park during his childhood|Western Highway / Ballarat Road traffic|Tom Rigg confusing St. Albans bus signs|Rubbish in Deer Park|Phyllis Frost|Basil Morcos|Allan "Titch" Williams|George Thoms|Clarrie Salvator|Tom Dile|Igor Balabin|John McArdie|Sam & Rita Attard|Jack & Dorothy Roberts|Joe De Gabriele|Beth Argyle|John Refshauge surgeon|Bill Fogarity|Brimbank Heritage Listing in peril|Museum of Victoria virtually tour of H.V. McHarvester Factory|Jock McLeod|John & lorna Stainer|Rita Shimmin|Smithy|Nettlefolds - Len Duxon, Betty Scott, Frank Richards, Thelma Burnett, Reg Ratcliffe & Frank Farrugia|Emma Broadhead|Bill Bunting|Gwen Goedecke|Ron Dorre|Sunshine Hospital Redevelopment|Braybrook Squash Centre|Megan Blair|Harvester Town book launch|Tom Rigg rail safty activist|Lloyd & Gislaine Simpson|Sunshine's past revealed|Legless Lizards site Jones Creek|Wetlands|St. Albans time capsule|Cainlea suburb name causing a stir|Agnes Clark|Norman de Pomeroy|Ern & Dot Nicholls|Anton & Maria Gerber|Peter & Margaret McManus|H.V. McKay Offices heritage listing|Cr. Chris Evans out|Two historial walks in Sunshine|Brink Back the H.V. McKay Smithy opening invite|Counicl destroys old files|Harricks Cottage|Special Exhibution Models of Sunshine made farn implements exhibition invite 663.03 - Wally O'Brien|Cr. Chris Evans|Sunshine pool debate|Black Powder Mill|Sydnenham / Hillside Primary School name changes|Say goodbye to Sydnenham, Watergardens|Spalding Reuion|Harry Unger|Gwen Goedecke|Frances Fitzgerald|Preerving Brimbank's significant landmarks|Bernard Reilly kindergarten train|Albert Holden|St. Peters Channel Catholic Church|Terry Muscat|Smithy|Norman & Geoff Pomeroy|Sunshine disaster recalled|Sydneham Railway Station|Sunshine Baseball Club|Albert Evans|Sunshine Pool anger|Albion car crash|Jackson School to loose portables|Black Powder Mill|John Kontek|Harvester basic wage case|Sushine Harvester & Offices complex|Deer Park Primary School|Sunshine underpass / subway shame|Albion Railway Station Rolando & Lilia Antonio|Furlong Road tragery|Anita Ciancio & baby Montana kidnapping|Harricks Cottage|Fence to keep out snakes|Shire of Braybrook Financial & Rate records donated to S&DHS|Bikini protest in Council Chambers|Talintyre Reserve name change from Tallintyre Reserve|Peter Somerville and the Blackbird|Keith Miller|Gerald Griggs|St. Albans Hume & Hovell cairn in the move|Iramoo Committee|Shopping bags ban|Harvester City, the making of Multicultural Sunshine book grant|Susan Jennison|Melchior Bajada|Ray Carlton book donation to Sunshine Library|Hampshire Road connection the Market Place with the Plaza|Girls should be girlsSunshine & Districtsunshine advocate, brimbank messenger, newspaper

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

One of the passenger carriages of the fatal train smash at Sunshine Railway Station 1908 Railway accident Sunshine Easter Monday 1908 43 lives lostsunshine railway station, 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

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

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

1/ Sunshine Diaster Easter Monday 20th April 1908 Newspaper cuttings|2/ Compensation Personal Injuries Sunshine Accident 20th April 1908 Part 1 & Part 2|3/ List of relatives of people that were involved and others|4/ Notes on some staff|5/ Legislative Assembly Wednesday 25th November 1908 Sunshine Railway Disaster Non. Samuel Mauger|6/ The Australian Locomotive Drivers' Guide|7/ Report of Evidence and Addresses of Counsel given at Coroner's Inquest|8/ Minutes of the Victorian Railways Commissioners Meetings 20/9/1909 & 16/4/1909|9/ Double Line Block Train Register|10/ Sunshine Railway Disaster 1909 Project Design Anne Best November 2005|11/ Sunshine Railway Disaster 20/4/1908 Notes taken for Mr William Shannon District Rolling Stock Inspector at the Enquiry|12/ Various notes on railways stations and other miscelleous articles|13/ Sunshine Rail Disaster Commemorative Service Monday 10:30pm 20/4/1998 90th Anniversary|14/ The Sunshine Railway Disaster by John Buckland|15/ Sunshine Railway Disaster verious newspaper cuttings|16/ Correspondence|17/ Poems & Sings|18/ Sunshine Disaster 20/4/1908 various|19/ The Sunshine Railway Disaster Who Was To Blame? Conroner's Searching Enquiry W.O. Bagley|20/ Victorian Railways Rules and Regulation for the Guidance of Employe's 1907|21/ Timetables & Fares around 1908|22/ Power to Stop Tlk to Vicrail Senior Management 7th December 1977 by A. G. Gibbs|23/ Tom Rigg's Photo Album 100th Anniversity 2008 and Book Launch|24/ Peter Alexander Assistant to Chief Mechanical Engineer Report on Train Brakessunshine railway disaster, sunshine railway station, railway, sunshine

Sunshine Railway Disaster Plaque Unveiling 1998|Speech by Ian Baker|List of people killed|History of Braybook Junction|The Deer Park Workmen's Trains 1929 - 1954sunshine railway disaster, sunshine railway station, railway, sunshine