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◊ 2019-06-30 10:32

 This mini-series was about the Granville Rail Disaster that occurred near the Granville Railway Station at Granville, NSW on the morning of the 18th January 1977.

The disaster occurred when the 6:09AM train, consisting of 8 carriages being hauled by the NSW Class 46 Electric Locomotive No. 4620 heading into Sydney from Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains came off the railway line and smashing into the concrete pillars holding the Bold Street Bridge.

The bridge came down on top of carriages three and four, crushing the rear half of carriage three and the front half of carriage four.

During the rescue operation, the rescuers had to manually dig into the wreckage to rescue survivors, as there was gas leaking from the LPG Cylinders kept onboard the carriages to provide heating for the carriages during winter.

The disaster killed 84 (including a unborn child) and injured 213, a large majority of those killed were in carriages three and four, mainly due to Crush Syndrome.

A investigation into the disaster revealed that maintenance logs from August 1976 had revealed that No. 4620 had a faulty L6 wheel that was rendered as unserviceable.

As there were no replacement L6 wheel parts available, the faulty wheel was left on the locomotive but was decided to keep the L6 wheel under surveillance.

Granville wasn't the first derailment that had involved a Class 46 Locomotive or involved No. 4620, on the 16th July 1965, No. 4620 was hauling 44 goods wagons when it derailed at Wentworth Falls after careering downhill at 95mph (153km/h).

A investigation into No. 4620's first derailment revealed even though No. 4620's air brakes were connected between the locomotive and the wagons, the air brakes' isolating cock was left closed, rendering No. 4620's locomotive brakes inoperable.

Then a year prior to Granville on the 16th January 1976, another goods train being a hauled by Locomotive No. 4623 had collided into the rear carriage of a stationary interurban V Set No. DCF 8004 EMU at Glenbrook Station, killing one passenger aboard the EMU.

A investigation into the crash revealed that the signals behind the EMU were incorrectly set to yellow instead of red, allowing No. 4623 and its wagons to enter into the section that was occupied by the EMU.

-- Last edit: 2022-04-03 16:18:01

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