Re: Day of the roses

["Richard Chapman" <richardc@tpg.com.au>]

The story was crap and the conspiracy theory was BS. But I thought the train
itself and the detail of the crash scene was extremely good.

And the funny announcement they make at Parramatta ("this is the 6:16 for Mt
Victoria" like people at Parramatta would care!)

I'm not sure why Neville Wran would have wanted to have the cause hushed
up - he ended up spending the millions on trackwork and new rolling stock in
any event, and early in his first term early 1977 - he was still looking for
things to blame on the previous government.

But the scene of the train itself (in a world now sadly devoid of 46
class-hauled passenger trains) made it worth watching
--
Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
01bef3f1$f846a5c0$782e11cb@rodsmith">news:01bef3f1$f846a5c0$782e11cb@rodsmith...
> This overated piece of tv pulp is being shown in one hit (three 1 h
> episodes together) on Melbourne (Australia) channel 10, commencing at
20.30
> on Sat.4.9.
>
> Both advance newspaper reviews have been excessively favourable.
> Melbourne 'Age' praised the detailed research.
> Melbourne 'Herald Sun' praised the moving human scenes, provided by well
> known soap stars.
>
> Look up aus.rail archives (available at railpage) to see the extensive
> comments made when the program was shown in 1998.
>
> Briefly, the show is based on a conspiracy theory and ignored the detailed
> technical work in the investigation.
>
> --
> Regards
> Roderick Smith
> Rail News Victoria Editor




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