File:New Goods Yard at Roma Street Railway Station, c 1936.jpg

English: The Courier Mail

Sat 6 Oct 1934

TRAINS COLLIDE AT ROMA STREET Engine Derailed Driver and Friemen Suspended

With a crash that could be heard for hundreds of yards, a goods train and an empty passenger train came into collision at the Southern end of the Roma Street goods yards early yesterday morning. The engine of the passenger train was badly derailed, its front portion being extensively damaged, and several waggons on the goods train received slight damage. No one was injured.

The collision occurred about 7.30am, the trains involved being the 41 down, a goods train from Toowoomba, and the 22 up, a passenger train running between Petrie and Central Station.

The Petrie train, after conveying its passengers to Central, was passing through Roma Street, en route to the Mayne Junction sheds, just as a goods train swung into the Roma Street yards, and was proceeding along another loop line towards Normanby.

According to railway officials both engines reached the junction of the two lines almost simultaneously, and the heavier goods train forced the tank engine drawing the empty carriages a considerable distance off the rails. The latter's buffer beam was badly bent, some of the steam pipes were damaged and much of the metal plating was torn from its side.

Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 2548