Sunday, January 20, 2013

new TV program on the Granville, Sydney, rail disaster


The worst railway disaster in Australia, with 83 deaths and 210 injured, was the Granville disaster of 18 January 1977 when a morning electric locomotive hauled passenger train from the Blue Mountains derailed and crashed into a bridge at Granville which within a minute collapsed onto the wrecked cars.  Foxtel has commissioned a program on the disaster which is scheduled on both Foxtel and the History Channel in A/NZ in the next days.

A full account of the accident is included in the book Australian Railway Disasters, available at better bookshops in Australia.

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