{"id":1062,"date":"2020-04-23T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T05:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annielogan.com\/blog\/?page_id=1062"},"modified":"2020-04-29T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:05:31","slug":"macedon-railway-crash-introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/annielogan.com\/blog\/macedon-railway-crash-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Macedon Railway Crash - Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#003c71\">GUARD DIES AT POST<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#0071a1\">WARNS OTHERS OF DANGER<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"alignfull wp-block-ugb-blockquote ugb-blockquote ugb-913fc42 ugb-blockquote--v3 ugb-blockquote--design-basic ugb-main-block ugb--hide-mobile ugb-main-block--inner-center ugb--has-block-background\" id=\"\"><style>.ugb-913fc42 .ugb-blockquote__item{border-radius:0px !important}.ugb-913fc42 .ugb-blockquote__quote{fill:#fcb900 !important;opacity:0.5;width:120px !important;height:120px !important;left:100px !important;top:45px !important}.ugb-913fc42 .ugb-blockquote__text{font-size:1.2em !important;font-weight:500 !important;letter-spacing:0.7px !important;line-height:1.4em !important}.ugb-913fc42 .ugb-inner-block{text-align:left}.ugb-913fc42.ugb-blockquote{min-height:360px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,1)}@media screen and (-ms-high-contrast:active),screen and (-ms-high-contrast:none){.ugb-913fc42.ugb-blockquote{height:360px}}<\/style><style>.ugb-913fc42 .ugb-blockquote__text{text-align:justify !important}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-blockquote__item ugb--shadow-6\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"ugb-blockquote__quote\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"><path d=\"M19.8 9.3C10.5 11.8 4.6 17 2.1 24.8c2.3-3.6 5.6-5.4 9.9-5.4 3.3 0 6 1.1 8.3 3.3 2.2 2.2 3.4 5 3.4 8.3 0 3.2-1.1 5.8-3.3 8-2.2 2.2-5.1 3.2-8.7 3.2-3.7 0-6.5-1.2-8.6-3.5C1 36.3 0 33.1 0 29 0 18.3 6.5 11.2 19.6 7.9l.2 1.4zm26.4 0C36.9 11.9 31 17 28.5 24.8c2.2-3.6 5.5-5.4 9.8-5.4 3.2 0 6 1.1 8.3 3.2 2.3 2.2 3.4 4.9 3.4 8.3 0 3.1-1.1 5.8-3.3 7.9-2.2 2.2-5.1 3.3-8.6 3.3-3.7 0-6.6-1.1-8.6-3.4-2.1-2.3-3.1-5.5-3.1-9.7 0-10.7 6.6-17.8 19.7-21.1l.1 1.4z\"><\/path><\/svg><div class=\"ugb-blockquote__content\"><p class=\"ugb-blockquote__text\"><strong>Hi! Hi! Hi!!!<\/strong><br><br>This exclamation, shouted in a man's loudest tones, was heard by the stationmaster at Macedon early this morning.<br><br>It was the cry of an elderly guard sticking loyally to his duty.<br><br>The stationmaster saw that trucks had broken away and were running downhill at a speed of almost 70 miles an hour and that the guard was calling out to warn others on the line of the danger so that they should not be in jeopardy. A minute later a loud report rang out. The stationmaster then knew that the worst had happened. The runaway trucks had crashed into an oncoming goods train. Evans, the guard, who had shouted the warning, was found dead on the line 200 yards away from the scene of the accident.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-container ugb-container ugb-7e0b085 ugb-container--v2 ugb-container--design-basic ugb-container--width-small ugb-main-block ugb--hide-desktop\" id=\"\"><style>.ugb-7e0b085-wrapper.ugb-container__wrapper{background-color:#eeeeee !important}.ugb-7e0b085 > .ugb-inner-block > .ugb-block-content > *{min-height:100px;padding-top:0px !important;padding-right:0px !important;padding-bottom:0px !important;padding-left:0px !important}.ugb-7e0b085-wrapper.ugb-container__wrapper:before{background-color:#eeeeee !important}.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > h1,.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > h2,.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > h3,.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > h4,.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > h5,.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > h6{color:#222222}.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > p,.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > ol li,.ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper > ul li{color:#222222}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-container__wrapper ugb-7e0b085-wrapper\"><div class=\"ugb-container__side\"><div class=\"ugb-container__content-wrapper ugb-7e0b085-content-wrapper\">\n<p><strong>Hi! Hi! Hi!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This exclamation, shouted in a man's loudest tones, was heard by the stationmaster at Macedon early this morning.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It was the cry of an elderly guard sticking loyally to his duty.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><em>The stationmaster saw that trucks had broken away and were running downhill at a speed of almost 70 miles an hour and that the guard was calling out to warn others on the line of the danger so that they should not be in jeopardy. A minute later a loud report rang out. The stationmaster then knew that the worst had happened. The runaway trucks had crashed into an oncoming goods train. Evans, the guard, who had shouted the warning, was found dead on the line 200 yards away from the scene of the accident.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">I had been researching the old newspapers on Trove when I came across the newspaper reports of this fatal train crash that occurred not far from where I am living now.  I haven't lived here that long so it was no surprise that I hadn't heard of the crash but it did surprise me that when checking on Google and Wikipedia, there didn't seem to be any mention of it at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"alignfull wp-block-ugb-blockquote ugb-blockquote ugb-76d7396 ugb-blockquote--v3 ugb-blockquote--design-basic ugb-main-block ugb--hide-mobile ugb-main-block--inner-center ugb--has-block-background\" id=\"\"><style>.ugb-76d7396 .ugb-blockquote__item{border-radius:0px !important}.ugb-76d7396 .ugb-blockquote__quote{fill:#fcb900 !important;opacity:0.5;width:120px !important;height:120px !important;left:100px !important;top:45px !important}.ugb-76d7396 .ugb-blockquote__text{font-size:1.2em !important;font-weight:500 !important;letter-spacing:0.7px !important;line-height:1.4em !important}.ugb-76d7396 .ugb-inner-block{text-align:left}.ugb-76d7396.ugb-blockquote{min-height:360px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,1)}@media screen and (-ms-high-contrast:active),screen and (-ms-high-contrast:none){.ugb-76d7396.ugb-blockquote{height:360px}}<\/style><style>.ugb-76d7396 .ugb-blockquote__text{text-align:justify !important}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-blockquote__item ugb--shadow-6\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"ugb-blockquote__quote\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\"><path d=\"M19.8 9.3C10.5 11.8 4.6 17 2.1 24.8c2.3-3.6 5.6-5.4 9.9-5.4 3.3 0 6 1.1 8.3 3.3 2.2 2.2 3.4 5 3.4 8.3 0 3.2-1.1 5.8-3.3 8-2.2 2.2-5.1 3.2-8.7 3.2-3.7 0-6.5-1.2-8.6-3.5C1 36.3 0 33.1 0 29 0 18.3 6.5 11.2 19.6 7.9l.2 1.4zm26.4 0C36.9 11.9 31 17 28.5 24.8c2.2-3.6 5.5-5.4 9.8-5.4 3.2 0 6 1.1 8.3 3.2 2.3 2.2 3.4 4.9 3.4 8.3 0 3.1-1.1 5.8-3.3 7.9-2.2 2.2-5.1 3.3-8.6 3.3-3.7 0-6.6-1.1-8.6-3.4-2.1-2.3-3.1-5.5-3.1-9.7 0-10.7 6.6-17.8 19.7-21.1l.1 1.4z\"><\/path><\/svg><div class=\"ugb-blockquote__content\"><p class=\"ugb-blockquote__text\"><strong><em>\u201cHe must have been a game man,\u201d said one railway-man in a quiet tone, \u201cor he would have jumped off before the trucks gathered such an awful speed.\"&nbsp; Ted Evan\u2019s act will not soon be forgotten by the railwaymen.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ugb-container ugb-container ugb-596fe12 ugb-container--v2 ugb-container--design-basic ugb-container--width-small ugb-main-block ugb--hide-desktop\" id=\"\"><style>.ugb-596fe12-wrapper.ugb-container__wrapper{background-color:#eeeeee !important}.ugb-596fe12 > .ugb-inner-block > .ugb-block-content > *{min-height:100px;padding-top:0px !important;padding-right:0px !important;padding-bottom:0px !important;padding-left:0px !important}.ugb-596fe12-wrapper.ugb-container__wrapper:before{background-color:#eeeeee !important}.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > h1,.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > h2,.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > h3,.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > h4,.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > h5,.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > h6{color:#222222}.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > p,.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > ol li,.ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper > ul li{color:#222222}<\/style><div class=\"ugb-inner-block\"><div class=\"ugb-block-content\"><div class=\"ugb-container__wrapper ugb-596fe12-wrapper\"><div class=\"ugb-container__side\"><div class=\"ugb-container__content-wrapper ugb-596fe12-content-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">\"<em>He must have been a game man,\u201d said one railway-man in a quiet tone, \u201cor he would have jumped off before the trucks gathered such an awful speed.\"&nbsp; Ted Evan\u2019s act will not soon be forgotten by the railwaymen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Just trying to make sure that doesn't happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">I have transcribed the contemporary newspaper reports of the accident and they are attached here as a series accessible via the Menu at the top and bottom of the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#003c71\">A Brief Summary of the Accident<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">Around 1.30 am on Saturday 4th February 1922 between Macedon and Woodend, Victoria, a collision between two goods trains occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">The first train was a double-header - two engines, an A2 and a DD - were hauling 45 trucks.  Edward Evans was in the rear guard's van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">The train struggled to reach the top of the Macedon Railway incline under its heavy load and stopped to produce more steam in order to be able to reach the top.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">It's believed that the re-start on the incline and under heavy load exerted too much pressure on the coupling of one of the trucks which gave way and separated itself and the trucks behind it from the main train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">Thirteen trucks, plus the Guard's van with Edward Evans as the occupant, gathered speed and hurtled back down the incline, whooshed through Macedon Station - when Evans was heard calling out by the stationmaster - and crashed into another goods train making its way slowly up the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify has-medium-font-size\">The guard, Edward Thomas Evans, was killed but, miraculously, none of the crew of the second train received serious injuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"background-color:#003c71\" class=\"has-text-color has-background has-very-light-gray-color\"><strong>Anne Logan - April 2020 - currently in lockdown because of the COVID-19 Virus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUARD DIES AT POST WARNS OTHERS OF DANGER Hi! 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