45: Granville
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.
This show is Podcasting 2.0 Enhanced
Links of Interest:
- Granville rail disaster
- The Day of the Roses
- Public Transport Commission of NSW
- Granville Train Disaster
- 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
- 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 UNSW Alma
- 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:
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Episode Gold Producers: 'r' and Steven Bridle.
Episode Silver Producers: Mitch Biegler, John Whitlow, Kevin Koch, Shane O'Neill, Oliver Steele, Lesley Law Chan, Hafthor, Jared, Bill, Joel Maher and Katharina Will.