Railway accidents in South Australia
This article lists significant fatal, injury-only, and other accidents involving railway rolling stock, including crashes, fires and other incidents in the Australian state of South Australia. The first known incident in this list occurred in 1873 in Smithfield, South Australia. Fatal accidents Glanville, 1880 On 23 September 1880, a woman was run over and killed by an engine at Glanville. She was walking towards the station at Glanville close to the line and within a very short distance of the platform. Dry Creek, 1890 On 21 July 1890, James Cowan, a member of the South Australian Parliament, and his fellow passenger, Mark Bullimore, the local branch manager of the General Electric Supply Company of Australia, were killed when Cowan's horse-drawn buggy collided with a train in Dry Creek, at the intersection of Grand Junction Road and the main railway line running north from Adelaide. The men were proponents of a battery-powered tram trialled in Adelaide the previous year. Walloway, 1901 On 16 November 1901, two people were killed. The accident was sufficient to condemn in the most scathing terms those who were responsible for the inefficient brake system. There were no lights to show the driver that he was approaching