The Station Yard at Hamley Bridge Railway Station

The Advertiser – Saturday 8 December 1928  

REPLACING REPLACING THE DERAILED ENGINE

The scene in the Hamley Bridge station yard shows the work in progress of replacing the derailed engine and van on to the line.

—Krischock, photo.

THE EAST-WEST EXPRESS

The engine, tender, mail van, and leading passenger car of the East-West express were derailed at Hamley Bridge shortly before noon yesterday, on its Journey to Perth. No passengers were injured. 

         —Krischock, photo.

THE DERAILED ENGINE

A rear view of the derailment at Hamley Bridge yesterday, showing the wheels of the tender partly buried in the permanent way. 

--Krischock, photo.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE DERAILMENT

GENERAL VIEW OF THE DERAILMENT, A view looking north, showing the RX engine drawing the mail van away from the Pacific engine, in the middle distance. The Pacific engine should have travelled on the set of rails on the left of this picture.  Instead of that it jumped the rails and came to rest on the up track.

PACIFIC NO.609 MOUNTS THE UPTRACK

PACIFIC No. 609 MOUNTS THE UP TRACK.  Our photograph shows the engine of the East-West express, which was derailed in the Hamley Bridge Station yard on Friday morning, resting on the sleepers. A strange feature of the accident was that the front pair of bogie wheels mounted the rails of the up track. The tender, which is about 3 ft. out of alignment with the engine portion, is seen imbedded deeply in the metal about the sleepers, which were freely splintered. The mail van, which had been coupled to the engine has, been drawn some distance away from the tender. The rails in the foreground are the ones on which the train should have ridden.