The Glenbrook Rail accident occurred at 8.22am on Thursday 2 December 1999 when a CityRail electric interurban train collided with the rear of the long-haul Perth-to-Sydney Indian-Pacific passenger train. The accident happened on a curve 700 metres east of Glenbrook railway station in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. The accident took the lives of seven people and injured a further 51.

This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals). Michele is a ham radio operator N8CSX and an amateur disaster historian. Andy is N8ACJ and the residential railroad specialist.

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