StateLibQld 2 102560 Rescuers inspect the wreckage of the Camp Mountain train disaster, 1947

Rescuers inspect the wreckage of the Camp Mountain train disaster, 1947.
This smash occurred near Camp Mountain on Monday 5 May 1947. A special picnic train carrying 500 women and children which had been organised by the Customs and Excise department's social club crashed on the Samford Range at 9:55am. It was Queensland's worst rail smash.

The smash, 13 1/2 miles from Central Station, killed 15 and injured 30. The leading carriage jumped the rail in a cutting a few miles on the Brisbane side of Closeburn, where the picnic was to have been held. An emergency rescue gang was formed from local farmers and storekeepers. (Information taken from: Courier Mail, 6 May 1947, p. 1).