Sunshine is a railway station (station code 'SUN') in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It serves the Sydenham suburban line and the Melton greater metropolitan line and is located in the suburb of Sunshine, and is 13.5 km by rail from Flinders Street Station in the city centre. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ... The City of Melbournes coat of arms Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of... Motto: Peace and Prosperity Nickname: Garden State Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ... The Sydenham railway line is a suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Melton line is a greater-metropolitan subsection of the Ballarat line in Victoria, Australia. ... It has been suggested that Suburbia be merged into this article or section. ... Sunshine (37°46′ S 144°49′ E) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer, symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... Flinders Street Stations main entrance and dome. ...

On the night of April 20, 1908, 44 people were killed and over 400 injured when a Melbourne-bound train from Bendigo collided with the rear of a train from Ballarat, which was just leaving the station. Around 1,100 people were aboard the two trains. Almost all of the casualties were from the Ballarat train, as the Bendigo train was cushioned by its two AA class locomotives. A temporary mortuary was set up at Spencer Street Station (Melbourne's regional terminus), and flags at the station flew at half-mast. The disaster was the worst train crash in Victorian railway history. April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bendigo is a large regional town in central Victoria, Australia, located in the City of Greater Bendigo. ... Ballarat is a city in regional Victoria, Australia, approximately 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, with a population of 84,000 people. ... A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train, and has no payload capacity of its own; its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks. ... A mortuary is a cold chamber used to keep the deceased from seriously decomposing; this practice exists for the sake of recognition of the deceased and to allow time to prepare for burial. ... Spencer Street Station is a major railway station in Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. ...

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