Unsolved: Death on the Mail Train

For this Curious Campbelltown Special Unsolved edition we're heading all the way back to 1895, the mail train is pulling into Goulburn on its way to Sydney...

Content Warning: This episode contains mentions of death, suicide, murder, severe illness, and religious extremism.

 

Transcript(PDF, 134KB) of podcast

 

Music used in this episode:

Chorale 1 by vartioh -- https://freesound.org/s/131915/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Dark Mysterious Strings 2 by tyops -- https://freesound.org/s/624521/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Steam train horn 02 by eliasheuninck -- https://freesound.org/s/170848/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

 

Resources cited in this episode:

The Railway Mystery. (1895, May 11). Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), p. 5. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108094997

THE TRAIN TRAGEDY. (1895, May 10). The Australian Star (Sydney, NSW : 1887 - 1909), p. 5. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article227105872

BURNED AS BEWITCHED. (1895, May 6). Goulburn Herald (NSW : 1881 - 1907), p. 4. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100441523

THE RAILWAY MYSTERY. (1895, May 11). The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954), p. 4. from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241113949

Conolly, P. (2025) Mail train from Goulburn – a mystery, Pauline Conolly. From https://paulineconolly.com/2025/mail-train-to-sydney-a-mystery/

 

 

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