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 Edward C. Campbell and Mary A. Campbell.
Married William Henry Wilson in 1917 in New South Wales.
Mother of Ted Wilson.
Lived in Pilliga, New South Wales.
Her name is the primary listing (Wilson, Flora Dundas and 25 others) in the Registers of Coroner's Inquests for the Murulla inquest held on Oct. 4-9, 1926.
BURIAL OF MR. AND MRS. WILSON.
The remains of Mr. and. Mrs W. H. Wilson, of Pilliga, who were killed in the Murulla railway smash, were inter red in the Haydonton cemetery. The Rev. W. J. Powell, vicar of Pilliga, who officiated at the graveside, made feeling reference to both the departed, describing them as excellent residents of the community to which they belonged, splendid workers for their church, and ever ready to take a foremost part in any cause for the betterment of the town and district. It was Mrs Wilson (nee Miss Flora Campbell) who organised "Bush Nursing" in the Pilliga district, which has been most successful. The scene at the graveside, where several relatives of the deceased had assembled, was very touching.
Singleton Argus (NSW)
Tuesday 21 September 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 Edward C. Campbell and Mary A. Campbell.
Married William Henry Wilson in 1917 in New South Wales.
Mother of Ted Wilson.
Lived in Pilliga, New South Wales.
Her name is the primary listing (Wilson, Flora Dundas and 25 others) in the Registers of Coroner's Inquests for the Murulla inquest held on Oct. 4-9, 1926.
BURIAL OF MR. AND MRS. WILSON.
The remains of Mr. and. Mrs W. H. Wilson, of Pilliga, who were killed in the Murulla railway smash, were inter red in the Haydonton cemetery. The Rev. W. J. Powell, vicar of Pilliga, who officiated at the graveside, made feeling reference to both the departed, describing them as excellent residents of the community to which they belonged, splendid workers for their church, and ever ready to take a foremost part in any cause for the betterment of the town and district. It was Mrs Wilson (nee Miss Flora Campbell) who organised "Bush Nursing" in the Pilliga district, which has been most successful. The scene at the graveside, where several relatives of the deceased had assembled, was very touching.
Singleton Argus (NSW)
Tuesday 21 September 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 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 Edward C. Campbell and Mary A. Campbell.
Married William Henry Wilson in 1917 in New South Wales.
Mother of Ted Wilson.
Lived in Pilliga, New South Wales.
Her name is the primary listing (Wilson, Flora Dundas and 25 others) in the Registers of Coroner's Inquests for the Murulla inquest held on Oct. 4-9, 1926.
BURIAL OF MR. AND MRS. WILSON.
The remains of Mr. and. Mrs W. H. Wilson, of Pilliga, who were killed in the Murulla railway smash, were inter red in the Haydonton cemetery. The Rev. W. J. Powell, vicar of Pilliga, who officiated at the graveside, made feeling reference to both the departed, describing them as excellent residents of the community to which they belonged, splendid workers for their church, and ever ready to take a foremost part in any cause for the betterment of the town and district. It was Mrs Wilson (nee Miss Flora Campbell) who organised "Bush Nursing" in the Pilliga district, which has been most successful. The scene at the graveside, where several relatives of the deceased had assembled, was very touching.
Singleton Argus (NSW)
Tuesday 21 September 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 Edward C. Campbell and Mary A. Campbell.
Married William Henry Wilson in 1917 in New South Wales.
Mother of Ted Wilson.
Lived in Pilliga, New South Wales.
Her name is the primary listing (Wilson, Flora Dundas and 25 others) in the Registers of Coroner's Inquests for the Murulla inquest held on Oct. 4-9, 1926.
BURIAL OF MR. AND MRS. WILSON.
The remains of Mr. and. Mrs W. H. Wilson, of Pilliga, who were killed in the Murulla railway smash, were inter red in the Haydonton cemetery. The Rev. W. J. Powell, vicar of Pilliga, who officiated at the graveside, made feeling reference to both the departed, describing them as excellent residents of the community to which they belonged, splendid workers for their church, and ever ready to take a foremost part in any cause for the betterment of the town and district. It was Mrs Wilson (nee Miss Flora Campbell) who organised "Bush Nursing" in the Pilliga district, which has been most successful. The scene at the graveside, where several relatives of the deceased had assembled, was very touching.
Singleton Argus (NSW)
Tuesday 21 September 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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Information from Australia Birth Index, 1877; Australia Marriage Index 1917; Australia Death Index, 1926; NSW Registers of Coroners' Inquests, 1926.
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