Causality

45: Granville


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In 1977, a commuter train from the Blue Mountains, destined for Sydney central station would derail just before Granville Station, causing a bridge to collapse and crush many aboard. It remains Australia's worst ever rail disaster that was predicted by 11 engineering department heads just a year earlier. We look at how management decisions led to a completely avoidable disaster.
With John Chidgey.

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Links of Interest:

  • Granville rail disaster
  • The Day of the Roses
  • Public Transport Commission of NSW
  • Granville Train Disaster (Archive.org)
  • Turnouts
  • CityRail
  • Australia’s worst rail disaster
  • The Granville Train Disaster Association
  • Revisiting the Granville Train Disaster of 1977: Barry Gobbe
  • Remembering the Day of the Roses
  • Wheel was covered up (Archive.org)
  • 45 years since Granville Train Disaster
  • Granville Train Disaster Memorial Garden
  • The rail disaster that changed Australia
  • Mixed response as NSW Government apologises for Australia’s worst train disaster
  • Granville Railway Disaster
  • Granville train disaster: victims speak out
  • Formal Investigation Extracts:

    • Formal Investigation State Records Authority
    • Report on the formal investigation
    • Formal Investigation extract: Research Data
    • Research Data Australia Search
    • Informal Investigations:

      • Permanent Way Institution Granville Search
      • Granville: The Untold Story
      • The Granville Train Disaster
      • The Granville Disaster
      • Video:

        • Granville Train Disaster Documentary (Video)

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