w w 1 christmas train massacar at Broken Hill
 

there was mention of this event on ABC radio the other day. this is an event that few poeple know about . As the centinary of this event will be in (i think ) december 2015 it should be rembered.
I have visited the memorial site and noted that the rail vehicle is a NSW standard gauge 4 wheel "S" truck, the actual truck involved was a south australian railways naroiw gauge 3'6" bogie open .

Hello John,

I am not sure whether you are describing the same thing? There was a Battle of Broken Hill on New Year’s Day 1915
http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Tr...s/s1051016.htm Broadcast 6.30pm on 23/02/2004

Some more details about the incident that outlines the picnic train details are found at http://www.postcards-sa.com.au/featu...oken_hill.html

Kind Regards
Lionel

This has been covered before on this forum. Not sure how to search it though.

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Gentlemen and ladies,
One of the previous discussions can be found here.
The is another, somewhere on this forum, that I have contributed to, as I visited the site with my family a couple of years back. But ut I cannot find it. I'll have another search when my ADSL is back up, using the mobile phone at the moment.
H