Re: Granville Train Disaster (and its memory)

["iyb" <iyb@dingoblue.net.au>]

maybe the speed on all other curves of that radius was 70kmh.
As a matter a fact if you look at the transcript i think you will find that
to be the case
"David Johnson" <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> iyb wrote:
>
> > So the bits about the bogies and wheel measurements is made up and I
suppose
> > the bits about  man who after preempting, fogging and generally being
> > uncooperative are untrue made up as well .
>
> Some bits were accurate, and can be confirmed by reading the Accident
> Investigation findings.  However, they seemed to put too much emphasis on
> irrelevant nonsense.  For example, the classic line "Why was the speed on
that
> curve 80 km/h when all other curves in NSW are 70 km/h?"  I can show you
curves
> in NSW with 160 km/h speeds.  The show put a lot of weight on the
condition of
> 4620, but didn't put enough on the condition of the track.
>
>
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> David Johnson
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