 There were about 120 passengers in the three carriages that toppled over the embankment.On the evening of 2 December 1882, one passenger was killed and 178 were injured when a collision occurred between a special train, which had been engaged to convey intending purchasers of land from the sale of the Box Hill estate, and the ordinary train from Melbourne to Camberwell.The disaster happened about 100 yards from a small wayside station called Picnic, between East Richmond and Hawthorn.