Granville Rail Disaster: Remembering Australia’s worst train crash 47 years on

On January 18, 1977, a crowded commuter train travelling from the New South Wales Blue Mountains to Sydney was derailed and struck the supporting pillars of Bold Street Bridge near Granville station in the city’s west.

The accident killed 83 passengers and injured more than 200 others in what has remained as Australia’s worst rail disaster.

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