The 6:30 to Gippsland - Australian True Crime

Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast · Apr 21, 2026 · 31m

The 6:30 to Gippsland - Australian Unsolved Mystery

On the evening of Saturday, 7 June 1919, a fireman named Frederick Mills climbed the coal pile in his tender as a steam train approached Korumburra station in South Gippsland. In the light of the signal box, he saw a body on the carriage roof. It was still warm. The deceased was Alexander Gordon Eastman, a twenty-one-year-old butcher from Prahran, who had boarded the 6:30 to Gippsland a few hours earlier with his aunt. He had stepped away at Dandenong to find a friend. The friend was never traced. This episode examines the discovery, the…