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Caulfield Rail Disaster 1926 - Video Sources and Notes

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Victorian Train Network Map. Department of Transport & Planning. February 2026. https://transport.vic.gov.au/plan-a-journey/maps/melbourne-public-transport-maps

CITY AND SUBURBS. (1879, May 10). Advocate (Melbourne, Vic. : 1868 - 1954), p. 15., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article170497543

‘Caulfield Railway Station’. ca. 1915. State Library of Victoria. https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/369688

ELECTRIC TRAIN ACCIDENT (1926, May 27). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 11. , from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3784548

‘Melbourne city 1920s’. ACMI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPa98x172gM

‘Preparation of a Victorian Railways Tait Train’. Victorian Railways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_x2qIqY6c

Railways of Doom, ‘Red Rattlers to the Showgrounds (2023)’. 6 August 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_o-vwHe2UQ

SAFETY IN ELECTRICITY. (1913, October 4). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 13., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241543679

‘7310C-07 137M-12D ARE Tait suburban 28/10/73.’ Geelong & South Western Rail Heritage Society. 28 October 1973. Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/gcargeeg/21274755179/

‘7310B-36 137M-12D ARE Tait suburban 28/10/73.’. Geelong & South Western Rail Heritage Society. 28 October 1973. Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/gcargeeg/31078789621/

‘Richmond railway smash’, Tesla Studios. 18 July 1910. State Library of Victoria. https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/69359

MOTOR PARTY’S AWFUL FATE. RUN DOWN AT CROSSING. EIGHT PERSONS KILLED. (1925, March 24). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 11., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2067438

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK (1925, March 28). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 5., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223160625

‘Caulfield Station’. Victorian Railways. ca. 1905 - ca.1928. State Library of Victoria. https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/4192281

Caulfield Station’. VPRS 12903/P0001, 215/11. Victorian Railways. Public Records Office of Victoria. https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/B67F8E6F-F822-11E9-AE98-93F9F32B2EC2

Haigh, Edward, ‘ Railway station Williamstown’. ca. 1861. State Library of Victoria. https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/150893

‘ADV 0718 MALVERN STATION’. Victorian Railways. Public Records Office of Victoria. https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/81A8E73B-F821-11E9-AE98-43D00B063B4E

ELECTRIC TRAIN ACCIDENT (1926, May 27). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 11., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3784548

RAILWAY SMASH AT CAULFIELD STATION (1926, June 5). Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic. : 1869 - 1954), p. 50., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223320684

Anton, Volodin, ‘Train’. https://thenounproject.com/icon/train-17186/

(1926, May 28). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 9., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page447669

THIRD DEATH. (1926, May 28). Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954), p. 5 (DAILY.)., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118629432

THREE PERSONS WERE KILLED AND 91 INJURED WHEN A TRAIN FROM MELBOURNE TO OAKLEIGH RAN INTO A STATIONARY CARRUM TRAIN AT CAULFIELD STATION ON THE EVENING OF MAY 26. (1926, June 5). The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), p. 74 (METROPOLITAN EDITION)., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article141414793

THREE DEAD, FORTY-SIX INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK (1926, May 27). The Sun (Sydney, NSW : 1910 - 1954), p. 1 (FINAL EXTRA)., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224213530

CAULFIELD ACCIDENT. (1926, June 16). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 21., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3788981

CAULFIELD COLLISION (1926, June 24). The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), p. 8., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29448918

AT DANGER! (1926, June 24). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 3., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article274979294

NOT GUILTY Safeguards Lacking (1926, September 29). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 5., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article274810972

Milvain and Hargreaves Found Guilty: Reduced GUILTY (1927, January 21). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 3., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article274900055

CAULFIELD ACCIDENT. (1927, January 28). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 18., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3834730

(1926, May 28). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 9., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page447669

CAULFIELD TRAINS DISASTER (1926, June 24). Cootamundra Herald (NSW : 1877 - 1954), p. 1., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article143934438

CAULFIELD ACCIDENT. (1926, June 24). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 11., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3790780

(1926, June 5). Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931), p. 16., from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page19338060