45: Granville

Causality

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
• https://www.railpage.com.au/f-t3776.htm">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
• http://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/granville-disaster-dodgy-wheel-was-covered-up">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
• https://primoa.library.unsw.edu.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay/UNSW_ALMA21120760100001731/UNSWC">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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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.