 On 17 June 1982, the driver and co-driver of a Melbourne-bound goods train were killed, and a number of other people injured, when the train ran into the rear of the Spirit of Progress, which had broken down in heavy fog just north of Barnawartha station.The goods train crew ran through a red signal protecting the broken-down train ahead, but the train controllers in Melbourne could not warn the crew of the impending collision, because radio systems had not then been installed in locomotives.In October 2002 a B-Double semi trailer collided with a heritage steam train at Benalla.