Re: Day of the roses

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

Further if 4620's wheels had needed grinding - they would've gone and done
it. Geez - spend millions on trackwork to save a bit of wheel grinding .

As for the marginal seat business - it was well known that central coast and
lwr blue mountains seats were favoured - but I can't see the driver speeding
through a crappy curve just to get some pollie elected.

Does anyone know of any interviews with surviving crew from the granville
train?

Richard Chapman <richardc@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
37cc55e5@dnews.tpgi.com.au">news:37cc55e5@dnews.tpgi.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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