Re: Granville Train accident
David Bromage (dbromage@metz.une.edu.au)
27 Feb 1998 02:00:34 GMT
Tell (telljb@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
>David Johnson <trainman@ozemail.com.au> wrote some very
>good background info which I snipped for brevity:
>
>The question which still bothers me is why the NSWPTC
>was still using wooden passenger stock, when it was
>known some 50 years or more prior to Granville that
>wooden passenger stock offered little protection to
>it's occupants.
Yes and no. Had Cowan happened in Victoria (e.g. a Comeng EMU running into
the back of a Steamrail train) the death toll would have been higher, but
not on the steam train. The anti-telescoping bars on VR wooden carriages
would cut through a stainless steel EMU like a hot knife through butter.
Cheers
David