There have been a number of train accidents on the railway network of Victoria, Australia. Some of these are listed below:
- 28 April 2006: A V/Line VLocity high-speed train is derailed when struck by an 18 wheeler truck, killing 2 and injuring 28 on the Ballarat to Ararat line [3]
- 16 November 2003: More than 60 people were injured when a Ballarat-bound train was derailed after colliding with a car that had been deliberately left on the track.[4]
- 12 November 2003: A stationary Bendigo-bound V/Line "Sprinter" train is hit by another V/Line train at Spencer Street.
- 16 March 2003: Sydney to Melbourne standard gauge freight train derails at Chiltern, fouling the adjacent broad gauge line. Due to poor communication between train control centres, a V/Line service was not warned in enough time and struck the wreckage, with no serious injuries.[5]
- 3 February 2003: A runaway M>Train operated Comeng suburban train travels the length of the Broadmeadows line before smashing into a stationary V/Line train at Spencer Street Station.[6]
- October 2002: a B-Double semi trailer collided with a heritage steam train at Benalla. Three people were killed and a fourth received severe burns when the locomotive rolled onto its side.[7][8][9] The driver of the truck was charged but later acquitted of culpable driving.
- 26 July 2000: An empty city-bound suburban train crashes into a stationary train at Homesglen Station.
- 20 November 1989: Two Commuter city bound trains collided at Syndal Station when one stationary train which had stopped and delayed due to door faults, was hit from behind by a second train which had stopped at a prior signal, but then continued onwards. 37 people were injured, there were no fatalities.[12]
- 7 September 1951: Westbound Overland interstate express train involved in head-on collision with Eastbound Overland at Serviceton. The fireman on the westbound express was killed.[13]
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