The Sunshine District, like all districts has seen it's fair share of tragedies.

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The most significant accident was the Sunshine Station Railway disaster in 1908. At that time it was Australia's worst railway accident. 

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But there has been many more tragedies in the local district and whether these have been work site accidents, motor car accidents, level crossing accidents, drownings in the district's creeks & pools and murders. Other tragedies have not happen in the district but the families of the district has had to mourn these events.

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A sample of these tragedies have been recorded in various Victorian papers.