Historical information
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.
Physical description
Audio tape
This audio tape has been digitised. This tape was recorded at 1/2 speed.
This audio tape has been transcribed. No editing of the recording has taken place, except where the speaker(s) can be identified.
Inscriptions & markings
Launch of T. Rigg Sunshine Railway Disaster 1908 1/5/2008
