THE MURULLA RAIL DISASTER
Twenty-seven people lost their lives and 42 injured as a result of a midnight train collision in the Upper Hunter Valley on Sept. 13, 1926 near Murrurundi, New South Wales. Breaking away from a goods train at Murulla, four cars laden with wool dashed backwards down a gradient and crashed into the oncoming north-west mail train from Moree to Sydney. Many of the passengers were children returning to school from holiday. Sometimes referred to as the Blandford railway accident, as the crash occurred before the community of Brandford,in an area bordered by both Brandford and Murulla districts.
Daughter of James Pollock and Ellen Pollock.
Mother of John Errol "Jack" Walker.
She entered the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone, the morning after the crash and never left.
LATE MRS. WALKER.
Murulla Smash Victim
The funeral of Mrs. Helen Walker, the twenty-seventh victim of the Murulla railway smash, took place this afternoon from Wood, Coffill's mortuary. The chief mourners were Mr. James Pollock, father, of the deceased, and her brothers and sisters. Before the funeral the Rev. O. C. J. Van held a short service. "The dear one you mourn," he said, "died under tragic circumstances, in a manner that shook Australia with horror and later tilled human hearts with Sympathy." Later Mr. Van conducted the service at Sandgate. where Mrs. Walker was buried with her six-year-old son, who was killed in the Murulla accident. Mrs. Walker suffered from a fractured leg and concussion. On Wednesday last she contracted pneumonia, which hastened her death.
The Scone Advocate (NSW)
Tuesday 23 November 1926, p.2
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Other Deaths:
ACKLAND, Catherine Sarah (Ireland), Scone Catholic Cemetery
ADAMS, Arthur Edgar, South Head Cemetery
ANDERTON, Azubah (Davison), Helensburgh Cemetery
BRUSH, Alfred Charles "Stumpy", Moree Cemetery
DOYLE, Janet, Quirindi General Cemetery
DUNBAR, John, Scone Anglican Cemetery
FRIPP, Ada Methven, Murrurundi General Cemetery
GARLAND, Elizabeth, Haydonton Cemetery
GILES, John, Penrith General Cemetery
GILES, Sarah A (Price), Penrith General Cemetery
JEFFERSON, Albert, Sandgate Cemetery
JURD, Arthur George Oswald, Moree Cemetery
MALLETT, Sydney Sustains, Rookwood Cemetery
MALONE, Kathleen, Rookwood Cemetery
McDONALD, Emily, Carlingford Anglican Cemetery
McGRATH, Owen Vincent, Waverley Cemetery
McKEOWN, Frank, Tamworth Cemetery
McMILLAN, Walter Kenneth, Waverley Cemetery
MOCKRIDGE, John Reuben, Rookwood Necropolis and Taita Cemetery
NOLLER, Stanley Augustus, Mays Hill Cemetery
RICH, Howard J., Sandgate Cemetery
VAGIANIS, Peter, Murrurundi General Cemetery
SAMPSON, Olive Clarice, Gunnedah General Cemetery
WALKER, John Errol, Sandgate Cemetery
WALKER, Helen "Nellie" (Pollock), Sandgate Cemetery
WILSON, William H., Haydonton Cemetery
WILSON, Flora Dundas (Campbell), Haydonton Cemetery
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Twenty-seven people lost their lives and 42 injured as a result of a midnight train collision in the Upper Hunter Valley on Sept. 13, 1926 near Murrurundi, New South Wales. Breaking away from a goods train at Murulla, four cars laden with wool dashed backwards down a gradient and crashed into the oncoming north-west mail train from Moree to Sydney. Many of the passengers were children returning to school from holiday. Sometimes referred to as the Blandford railway accident, as the crash occurred before the community of Brandford,in an area bordered by both Brandford and Murulla districts.
Daughter of James Pollock and Ellen Pollock.
Mother of John Errol "Jack" Walker.
She entered the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone, the morning after the crash and never left.
LATE MRS. WALKER.
Murulla Smash Victim
The funeral of Mrs. Helen Walker, the twenty-seventh victim of the Murulla railway smash, took place this afternoon from Wood, Coffill's mortuary. The chief mourners were Mr. James Pollock, father, of the deceased, and her brothers and sisters. Before the funeral the Rev. O. C. J. Van held a short service. "The dear one you mourn," he said, "died under tragic circumstances, in a manner that shook Australia with horror and later tilled human hearts with Sympathy." Later Mr. Van conducted the service at Sandgate. where Mrs. Walker was buried with her six-year-old son, who was killed in the Murulla accident. Mrs. Walker suffered from a fractured leg and concussion. On Wednesday last she contracted pneumonia, which hastened her death.
The Scone Advocate (NSW)
Tuesday 23 November 1926, p.2
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Other Deaths:
ACKLAND, Catherine Sarah (Ireland), Scone Catholic Cemetery
ADAMS, Arthur Edgar, South Head Cemetery
ANDERTON, Azubah (Davison), Helensburgh Cemetery
BRUSH, Alfred Charles "Stumpy", Moree Cemetery
DOYLE, Janet, Quirindi General Cemetery
DUNBAR, John, Scone Anglican Cemetery
FRIPP, Ada Methven, Murrurundi General Cemetery
GARLAND, Elizabeth, Haydonton Cemetery
GILES, John, Penrith General Cemetery
GILES, Sarah A (Price), Penrith General Cemetery
JEFFERSON, Albert, Sandgate Cemetery
JURD, Arthur George Oswald, Moree Cemetery
MALLETT, Sydney Sustains, Rookwood Cemetery
MALONE, Kathleen, Rookwood Cemetery
McDONALD, Emily, Carlingford Anglican Cemetery
McGRATH, Owen Vincent, Waverley Cemetery
McKEOWN, Frank, Tamworth Cemetery
McMILLAN, Walter Kenneth, Waverley Cemetery
MOCKRIDGE, John Reuben, Rookwood Necropolis and Taita Cemetery
NOLLER, Stanley Augustus, Mays Hill Cemetery
RICH, Howard J., Sandgate Cemetery
VAGIANIS, Peter, Murrurundi General Cemetery
SAMPSON, Olive Clarice, Gunnedah General Cemetery
WALKER, John Errol, Sandgate Cemetery
WALKER, Helen "Nellie" (Pollock), Sandgate Cemetery
WILSON, William H., Haydonton Cemetery
WILSON, Flora Dundas (Campbell), Haydonton Cemetery
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THE MURULLA RAIL DISASTER
Twenty-seven people lost their lives and 42 injured as a result of a midnight train collision in the Upper Hunter Valley on Sept. 13, 1926 near Murrurundi, New South Wales. Breaking away from a goods train at Murulla, four cars laden with wool dashed backwards down a gradient and crashed into the oncoming north-west mail train from Moree to Sydney. Many of the passengers were children returning to school from holiday. Sometimes referred to as the Blandford railway accident, as the crash occurred before the community of Brandford,in an area bordered by both Brandford and Murulla districts.
Daughter of James Pollock and Ellen Pollock.
Mother of John Errol "Jack" Walker.
She entered the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone, the morning after the crash and never left.
LATE MRS. WALKER.
Murulla Smash Victim
The funeral of Mrs. Helen Walker, the twenty-seventh victim of the Murulla railway smash, took place this afternoon from Wood, Coffill's mortuary. The chief mourners were Mr. James Pollock, father, of the deceased, and her brothers and sisters. Before the funeral the Rev. O. C. J. Van held a short service. "The dear one you mourn," he said, "died under tragic circumstances, in a manner that shook Australia with horror and later tilled human hearts with Sympathy." Later Mr. Van conducted the service at Sandgate. where Mrs. Walker was buried with her six-year-old son, who was killed in the Murulla accident. Mrs. Walker suffered from a fractured leg and concussion. On Wednesday last she contracted pneumonia, which hastened her death.
The Scone Advocate (NSW)
Tuesday 23 November 1926, p.2
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Other Deaths:
ACKLAND, Catherine Sarah (Ireland), Scone Catholic Cemetery
ADAMS, Arthur Edgar, South Head Cemetery
ANDERTON, Azubah (Davison), Helensburgh Cemetery
BRUSH, Alfred Charles "Stumpy", Moree Cemetery
DOYLE, Janet, Quirindi General Cemetery
DUNBAR, John, Scone Anglican Cemetery
FRIPP, Ada Methven, Murrurundi General Cemetery
GARLAND, Elizabeth, Haydonton Cemetery
GILES, John, Penrith General Cemetery
GILES, Sarah A (Price), Penrith General Cemetery
JEFFERSON, Albert, Sandgate Cemetery
JURD, Arthur George Oswald, Moree Cemetery
MALLETT, Sydney Sustains, Rookwood Cemetery
MALONE, Kathleen, Rookwood Cemetery
McDONALD, Emily, Carlingford Anglican Cemetery
McGRATH, Owen Vincent, Waverley Cemetery
McKEOWN, Frank, Tamworth Cemetery
McMILLAN, Walter Kenneth, Waverley Cemetery
MOCKRIDGE, John Reuben, Rookwood Necropolis and Taita Cemetery
NOLLER, Stanley Augustus, Mays Hill Cemetery
RICH, Howard J., Sandgate Cemetery
VAGIANIS, Peter, Murrurundi General Cemetery
SAMPSON, Olive Clarice, Gunnedah General Cemetery
WALKER, John Errol, Sandgate Cemetery
WALKER, Helen "Nellie" (Pollock), Sandgate Cemetery
WILSON, William H., Haydonton Cemetery
WILSON, Flora Dundas (Campbell), Haydonton Cemetery
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Twenty-seven people lost their lives and 42 injured as a result of a midnight train collision in the Upper Hunter Valley on Sept. 13, 1926 near Murrurundi, New South Wales. Breaking away from a goods train at Murulla, four cars laden with wool dashed backwards down a gradient and crashed into the oncoming north-west mail train from Moree to Sydney. Many of the passengers were children returning to school from holiday. Sometimes referred to as the Blandford railway accident, as the crash occurred before the community of Brandford,in an area bordered by both Brandford and Murulla districts.
Daughter of James Pollock and Ellen Pollock.
Mother of John Errol "Jack" Walker.
She entered the Scott Memorial Hospital, Scone, the morning after the crash and never left.
LATE MRS. WALKER.
Murulla Smash Victim
The funeral of Mrs. Helen Walker, the twenty-seventh victim of the Murulla railway smash, took place this afternoon from Wood, Coffill's mortuary. The chief mourners were Mr. James Pollock, father, of the deceased, and her brothers and sisters. Before the funeral the Rev. O. C. J. Van held a short service. "The dear one you mourn," he said, "died under tragic circumstances, in a manner that shook Australia with horror and later tilled human hearts with Sympathy." Later Mr. Van conducted the service at Sandgate. where Mrs. Walker was buried with her six-year-old son, who was killed in the Murulla accident. Mrs. Walker suffered from a fractured leg and concussion. On Wednesday last she contracted pneumonia, which hastened her death.
The Scone Advocate (NSW)
Tuesday 23 November 1926, p.2
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Other Deaths:
ACKLAND, Catherine Sarah (Ireland), Scone Catholic Cemetery
ADAMS, Arthur Edgar, South Head Cemetery
ANDERTON, Azubah (Davison), Helensburgh Cemetery
BRUSH, Alfred Charles "Stumpy", Moree Cemetery
DOYLE, Janet, Quirindi General Cemetery
DUNBAR, John, Scone Anglican Cemetery
FRIPP, Ada Methven, Murrurundi General Cemetery
GARLAND, Elizabeth, Haydonton Cemetery
GILES, John, Penrith General Cemetery
GILES, Sarah A (Price), Penrith General Cemetery
JEFFERSON, Albert, Sandgate Cemetery
JURD, Arthur George Oswald, Moree Cemetery
MALLETT, Sydney Sustains, Rookwood Cemetery
MALONE, Kathleen, Rookwood Cemetery
McDONALD, Emily, Carlingford Anglican Cemetery
McGRATH, Owen Vincent, Waverley Cemetery
McKEOWN, Frank, Tamworth Cemetery
McMILLAN, Walter Kenneth, Waverley Cemetery
MOCKRIDGE, John Reuben, Rookwood Necropolis and Taita Cemetery
NOLLER, Stanley Augustus, Mays Hill Cemetery
RICH, Howard J., Sandgate Cemetery
VAGIANIS, Peter, Murrurundi General Cemetery
SAMPSON, Olive Clarice, Gunnedah General Cemetery
WALKER, John Errol, Sandgate Cemetery
WALKER, Helen "Nellie" (Pollock), Sandgate Cemetery
WILSON, William H., Haydonton Cemetery
WILSON, Flora Dundas (Campbell), Haydonton Cemetery
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