Re: Granville Train accident

[keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Keith Malcolm)]

In article <6d3pff$1vb$3@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> telljb@ozemail.com.au (Tell) writes:
>From: telljb@ozemail.com.au (Tell)
>Subject: Re: Granville Train accident
>Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:09:50 GMT

>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.

Snip

Why were they still running timber bodied passenger stock on mail trains in 
1989? Same reason not enough steel cars.

David Malcolm