Amusement park
Luna Park Sydney
Harbourside amusement park behind a giant smiling-face entrance, dating to nineteen thirty-five.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Luna Park Sydney turns on the night of June 9, 1979, when fire broke out in the Ghost Train, the timber ride running since 1935. A father, John Godson, his two sons, and four schoolboys from Waverley College were riding it, and only one made it out. It follows a safety report filed two years earlier that had already flagged the ride as dangerous, and the inquest that tried to determine what happened. Decades of rumor about who may have been behind it were still being chased by investigators as recently as 2024.
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