Re: Granville Train accident
Derek Woodlands (kingpin@magna.com.au)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:03:57 GMT
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 04:28:02 GMT,
billbolton@REMOVE-TO-EMAILacslink.net.au (Bill Bolton) took time out
from wrapping gaffer tape around gerbils and wrote:
> > Some people were not rescued for days.
>
> While I wrote from memory, and got some technical details wrong, my
> memory isn't that bad!
>
> The last live survivor (who later died in hospital) was pulled from
> the debris at 6:15 pm on the same day as the disaster, after approx 10
> hours.
I seem to recall that a Debbie Woodgate spent over a day in the
wreckage. Anyone have further info on it?
> It took considerably longer to get to some of the dead bodies, but
> that's not a "rescue", that's a recovery.
True.
Catchya
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