THE MURULLA RAILWAY 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 Thomas T. Fripp and Isabell A. Fripp. Sister of Emily Fripp, who was injured in the smash up.
She attended the Garden School in Mosman.
Miss Fripp's Funeral
The little cemetery, nestling under a rocky crag just beyond Murrurundi station, received another of the smash victims this morning. This was Ada Fripp, the sixteen-year-old school girl, whose coffin in the cottage mortuary was almost hidden by flowers spread on it by relatives, and handed in by girls of Murrurundi. It was an especially sad little cortege that moved up through those groves of pines to tho burial-place this morning. Miss Fripp's older sister had driven her parents in a car nearly 300 miles over the hills from the north west to identify the young girl, and to learn the condition of the other sister, two or three years older, who was seriously injured.
The Newcastle Sun (NSW)
Thursday 16 September 1926, p.7
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
. . . MISS ADA FRIPP.
MURRURUNDI, Thursday.
The funeral of Miss Ada Fripp took place in the Church of England cemetery to-day, and was well attended. The Railway Department was represented by Messrs. W. C. Quinton, Northern Area Commissioner, Mr. D. Mulheron, Assistant Area Commissioner, Mr. J. V. Green, district superintendent, Mr. F. E. Allen, assistant district superintendent, and Messrs E. C. Heely and R. C. Sparkes, traffic Inspectors. The Revs. Mr. Woods, of Collarenebri and K. S. Single, of Murrurundi, officiated.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Friday 17 September 1926, p.12
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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 Thomas T. Fripp and Isabell A. Fripp. Sister of Emily Fripp, who was injured in the smash up.
She attended the Garden School in Mosman.
Miss Fripp's Funeral
The little cemetery, nestling under a rocky crag just beyond Murrurundi station, received another of the smash victims this morning. This was Ada Fripp, the sixteen-year-old school girl, whose coffin in the cottage mortuary was almost hidden by flowers spread on it by relatives, and handed in by girls of Murrurundi. It was an especially sad little cortege that moved up through those groves of pines to tho burial-place this morning. Miss Fripp's older sister had driven her parents in a car nearly 300 miles over the hills from the north west to identify the young girl, and to learn the condition of the other sister, two or three years older, who was seriously injured.
The Newcastle Sun (NSW)
Thursday 16 September 1926, p.7
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
. . . MISS ADA FRIPP.
MURRURUNDI, Thursday.
The funeral of Miss Ada Fripp took place in the Church of England cemetery to-day, and was well attended. The Railway Department was represented by Messrs. W. C. Quinton, Northern Area Commissioner, Mr. D. Mulheron, Assistant Area Commissioner, Mr. J. V. Green, district superintendent, Mr. F. E. Allen, assistant district superintendent, and Messrs E. C. Heely and R. C. Sparkes, traffic Inspectors. The Revs. Mr. Woods, of Collarenebri and K. S. Single, of Murrurundi, officiated.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Friday 17 September 1926, p.12
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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 RAILWAY 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 Thomas T. Fripp and Isabell A. Fripp. Sister of Emily Fripp, who was injured in the smash up.
She attended the Garden School in Mosman.
Miss Fripp's Funeral
The little cemetery, nestling under a rocky crag just beyond Murrurundi station, received another of the smash victims this morning. This was Ada Fripp, the sixteen-year-old school girl, whose coffin in the cottage mortuary was almost hidden by flowers spread on it by relatives, and handed in by girls of Murrurundi. It was an especially sad little cortege that moved up through those groves of pines to tho burial-place this morning. Miss Fripp's older sister had driven her parents in a car nearly 300 miles over the hills from the north west to identify the young girl, and to learn the condition of the other sister, two or three years older, who was seriously injured.
The Newcastle Sun (NSW)
Thursday 16 September 1926, p.7
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
. . . MISS ADA FRIPP.
MURRURUNDI, Thursday.
The funeral of Miss Ada Fripp took place in the Church of England cemetery to-day, and was well attended. The Railway Department was represented by Messrs. W. C. Quinton, Northern Area Commissioner, Mr. D. Mulheron, Assistant Area Commissioner, Mr. J. V. Green, district superintendent, Mr. F. E. Allen, assistant district superintendent, and Messrs E. C. Heely and R. C. Sparkes, traffic Inspectors. The Revs. Mr. Woods, of Collarenebri and K. S. Single, of Murrurundi, officiated.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Friday 17 September 1926, p.12
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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 Thomas T. Fripp and Isabell A. Fripp. Sister of Emily Fripp, who was injured in the smash up.
She attended the Garden School in Mosman.
Miss Fripp's Funeral
The little cemetery, nestling under a rocky crag just beyond Murrurundi station, received another of the smash victims this morning. This was Ada Fripp, the sixteen-year-old school girl, whose coffin in the cottage mortuary was almost hidden by flowers spread on it by relatives, and handed in by girls of Murrurundi. It was an especially sad little cortege that moved up through those groves of pines to tho burial-place this morning. Miss Fripp's older sister had driven her parents in a car nearly 300 miles over the hills from the north west to identify the young girl, and to learn the condition of the other sister, two or three years older, who was seriously injured.
The Newcastle Sun (NSW)
Thursday 16 September 1926, p.7
FUNERAL OF VICTIMS
. . . MISS ADA FRIPP.
MURRURUNDI, Thursday.
The funeral of Miss Ada Fripp took place in the Church of England cemetery to-day, and was well attended. The Railway Department was represented by Messrs. W. C. Quinton, Northern Area Commissioner, Mr. D. Mulheron, Assistant Area Commissioner, Mr. J. V. Green, district superintendent, Mr. F. E. Allen, assistant district superintendent, and Messrs E. C. Heely and R. C. Sparkes, traffic Inspectors. The Revs. Mr. Woods, of Collarenebri and K. S. Single, of Murrurundi, officiated.
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW)
Friday 17 September 1926, p.12
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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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