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Derailment on the Zig Zag railway

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

  • pellethepoet said:
    Photo by Lithgow Studios

    "RAILWAY ACCIDENT ON THE ZIG-ZAG. [BY TELEGRAPH] SYDNEY, Wednesday.
    An accident, involving some £200 damage, occurred on Thursday evening at the Zig-Zag, near Lithgow, to a goods train from Penrith. The train was descending the top line incline, and when the Westinghouse brakes were applied they refused to act. As a result the engine was impelled forward at terrific speed until it struck the end of the length upon which trains back up to enable them to run on to a different track. Here five feet of solid cut-out rock was encountered, and, having demolished the strong buffer stops, the engine bounded up on to the rock ledge, on the other side of which was a deep chasm. A truck next the engine mounted the tender by the force of the impact, and became a total wreck; the next truck also left the rails, but the remainder of the train kept its position. Beyond shock, the driver and fireman received no injuries. A departmental inquiry completed yesterday afternoon shows that the derailment of the engine was due to the injudicious use of the brake, which resulted in the train getting beyond control." - Barrier Miner, Wednesday 10 April 1901, p. 2.

    A view from the other side shows the engine number to be 246

    Derailment on the Zig Zag at Lithgow (04/04/1901) [SRNSW: 17420_a014_a014000988]
  • Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection said:
    pellethepoet Thanks for adding this article. What a frightening experience for the driver and fireman!

    AB
  • photo and graphics Neale Bayliss said:
    I love this photo, so much I tracked down the exact location & made a composite photo of the old photo & a new photo taken in the same location

    Here it is
    flic.kr/p/DsU3xa
  • Gavin Stevenson said:
    John Bolt, the engine driver, is my GG Grandfather. He sadly died 7 months later.

View of Lithgow

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

View at Eskbank

from Powerhouse Museum