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Just before the quoted passage, the narrator says a whistling going "Don!"
happens at the same time as he stumbles and ends up stooped. Then:

> もちろん、いくら昔の話でも発車のベルは「ドン！」などとは鳴らないし、発車のベルが人を突き飛ばすこともない。

My attempted translation:

> Of course, though this happened a long time ago, it couldn't be possible
> that the bell would go “Don!” and send someone flying.

Here I assume こともない means "it's not possible/the case that..." Is this
correct?
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Correct translation of こともない in this sentence
> こともない means "it's not possible/the case that.

こともない is a kind of emphasis of "have/do not either."

It is emphasizing or pointing out that a bell would never go "don" or shove
someone.
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> -「ドン！」  
>  - 人を突き飛ばす " _to shove people by the explosion of the round shot_ "

「ドン!」in the story of がばいばあちゃん, I think, is not a mere onomatopoeia of
something, but the sound of a blank shot by a heavy gun or a cannon. In Meiji
era they fired a blank shot to tell citizens the time of noon, which is
written [here](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%88%E7%A0%B2). Sometimes ドン
meant, I once heard, not only the sound of a cannon but a cannon itself in
those day.

There is another ドン which is something to do with this ドン; that is used in
「位置{いち}に着{つ}いて、よーい（用意{ようい}）、ドン」 which means _On your mark!, Ready! / Get set!,
Go!_. The last ドン is of course the sound of firing a starting pistol.
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「～こともない」 is made of 「～ことはない」(don't ever~~) + 「も」(either).  
「～ことはない」 is the negation of 「～ことがある」(occasionally do~~).

Compare:  
ベルが人を突き飛ばす **ことがある** 。-- The bell occasionally/sometimes pushes people away.  
ベルが人を突き飛ばす **ことはない** 。-- The bell wouldn't ever push people away.  
ベルが人を突き飛ばす **こともない** 。-- The bell wouldn't ever push people away, either. /
Nor would it ever push people away.

> 「ドン！」などとは鳴ら **ないし** 、発車のベルが人を突き飛ばすこと **もない** 。

「～～ないし、～～もない」 means "neither ~~ nor ~~".

"The bell would never go 'bump!', nor would it ever push people away."
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