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Crashes, derailments and dimwits

Miscellaneous accidents from around the place: derailments, clueless passengers, and broken bits and pieces.

Long queue of cars waiting for the boom barriers to open at Nar Nar Goon

Up V/Line train waiting in the platform for an ambulance to arrive

Sunday 7 April 2024 4:35 PM
Viewed 10 times
(10 times this week, 10 times this month, 10 times this year)

Truck driver heads around the closed boom barriers at the Nar Nar Goon level crossing

Up V/Line train waiting in the platform for an ambulance to arrive

Sunday 7 April 2024 4:24 PM
Viewed 7 times
(7 times this week, 7 times this month, 7 times this year)

Motorists drive around the closed boom barriers at the Nar Nar Goon level crossing

Up V/Line train waiting in the platform for an ambulance to arrive

Sunday 7 April 2024 4:21 PM
Viewed 5 times
(5 times this week, 5 times this month, 5 times this year)

Smashed up TPWS antenna between the rails at South Kensington

Destroyed by EV120 passing through the area early in the morning

Friday 2 February 2024 9:07 AM
Viewed 26 times
(5 times this month, 26 times this year)

Wooden wheel chock, E clip and sleeper 'biscuits' litter the dual gauge track at West Footscray

Thursday 12 October 2023 5:48 PM
Viewed 57 times
(1 time this month, 57 times this year)

Dead bird on the tracks

Thursday 12 October 2023 7:18 AM
Viewed 56 times
(4 times this month, 56 times this year)

Smashed up crash barrier on the Wells Road bridge over the Frankston line at Kananook

Saturday 12 August 2023 4:54 PM
Viewed 54 times
(2 times this month, 54 times this year)

Smashed up crash barrier on the Wells Road bridge over the Frankston line at Kananook

Saturday 12 August 2023 4:46 PM
Viewed 52 times, 52 times this year)

Dead sheep stuck to the front of VLocity VL03 on arrival at Sunshine

The train struck a flock of sheep on the tracks outside Ararat a few hours earlier

Friday 28 July 2023 4:41 PM
Viewed 146 times
(4 times this month, 146 times this year)

Dead sheep stuck to the front of VLocity VL03 on arrival at Sunshine

The train struck a flock of sheep on the tracks outside Ararat a few hours earlier

Friday 28 July 2023 4:41 PM
Viewed 353 times
(1 time this week, 5 times this month, 353 times this year)

Dead sheep stuck to the front of VLocity VL03 on arrival at Sunshine

The train struck a flock of sheep on the tracks outside Ararat a few hours earlier

Friday 28 July 2023 4:40 PM
Viewed 146 times
(2 times this month, 146 times this year)

Aramguard staff too lazy to park in the station car park, so they left their truck on the station concourse, then drove out via the footpath

Saturday 15 April 2023 2:21 PM
Viewed 163 times
(2 times this week, 10 times this month, 163 times this year)

Dumbarse driver on the wrong side of the road exiting the Sunshine station car park

Sunday 5 March 2023 6:13 PM
Viewed 92 times
(1 time this week, 7 times this month, 7 times this year)

Dumbarse distracted by their phone walks right in front of a moving tram

Saturday 4 March 2023 10:52 PM
Viewed 93 times
(6 times this month, 6 times this year)

Idiot motorist parked across everything in a railway station car park

Thursday 27 October 2022 7:53 PM
Viewed 121 times
(1 time this month, 16 times this year)

NR16 stabled solo on the loop road at Uranquinty

Taken off CM3 having suffered a locked axle

Thursday 29 September 2022 4:24 PM
Viewed 122 times
(1 time this month, 35 times this year)

NR16 stabled solo on the loop road at Uranquinty

Taken off CM3 having suffered a locked axle

Thursday 29 September 2022 4:23 PM
Viewed 105 times, 32 times this year)

Dropkick sitting on the platform edge

Saturday 10 September 2022 11:22 AM
Viewed 214 times
(2 times this week, 4 times this month, 65 times this year)

Going for a walk over five mainline tracks at Sunshine

Thursday 14 April 2022 5:13 PM
Viewed 229 times, 74 times this year)

Dead pigeon on the tracks

Tuesday 3 August 2021 11:00 AM
Viewed 531 times
(3 times this month, 65 times this year)

Train approaching, and this idiot pedestrian strolls across the tracks on Glenroy Road at Glenroy

Thursday 29 July 2021 11:04 AM
Viewed 318 times
(1 time this week, 1 time this month, 38 times this year)

Idiot motorist queuing across the tracks on Glenroy Road at Glenroy

Thursday 29 July 2021 11:03 AM
Viewed 265 times
(1 time this month, 36 times this year)

Motorists queue over the Old Geelong Road level crossing at Hoppers Crossing

Saturday 15 May 2021 2:48 PM
Viewed 415 times, 89 times this year)

Scraped paint on the ends of X'Trapolis train carriages

X'Trapolis trains bounce around more and ride lower than the rest of the fleet, so they hit the rubber gap filling panels at platforms

Saturday 2 January 2021 7:53 PM
Viewed 338 times
(3 times this month, 17 times this year)
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Viewed 19968 times (1 time this week, 3 times this month, 36 times this year)