Second Cockle Train incident in a week
Steamranger’s Cockle Train services at Goolwa and Victor Harbor resumed today after a car hit a train, days after a pedestrian fatality.
File photo of a SteamRanger train at Middleton.
A car crashed into the Cockle Train at a level crossing on Skewes Road, Goolwa at 4.15 yesterday.
The car driver was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
There were 109 passengers on board the tourist train, but no passengers or crew sustained injuries.
Steamranger said that normal services will resume on Thursday morning.
On January 4, an 87-year old pedestrian died after being hit by the train near Victor Harbor.
In a statement on their Facebook page, the Steamranger Heritage Railway urged the community to “stop, look, listen, think around any and all railway lines.”
“The repercussions of any incident involving a train can have long lasting traumatic and physical effects,” the post read.
