Railway Accident. Minutes of Evidence taken before the commission appointed into the causes of the recent accident upon the Great Southern Railway.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Sydney: William Hanson 1858. F'scap Folio. Wrappers. (44pp.). (Journal of the Legislative Council 1858 Volume 3). NOTE: In 1858 the first serious railway accident happened on the Sydney to Parramatta line near Granville on the Great Southern Railway. The train derailed and went over an embankment leading to 2 deaths and people injured. Equipment failure was blamed for the accident.