Episode 21 - The Granville Train Disaster

True Crime Island

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True Crime

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🗓️ 6 August 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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It’s 6:09 AM January 18th 1977 Mt Victoria train station in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The NSW 46 Class locomotive No.4620 hauling 8 passenger carriages leaves the station with commuters on their way to work in the city, a 126km journey. Along the way it will pick up and set down passengers. After stopping at Parramatta, it had a nonstop run to Strathfield then onward to Sydney. However, minutes out of Parramatta, a combination of factors would cause Australia’s worst ever train accident.

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0:00.0	It's 609 AM. January 18, 1977, Mount Victoria train station in the Blue Mountains
0:18.1	West of Sydney. The New South Wales 46 class locomotive, number 4-6-20, hauling 8 passenger carriages, leaves
0:27.7	the station with commuters on their way to work in the city, a 126 kilometer journey.
0:34.6	Along the way, it will pick up and set down passengers.
0:38.6	After stopping at Parramatta, it had a non-stop run to Strathfield then onwards to Sydney.
0:45.0	However, minutes out of Parramatta, a combination of factors would cause Australia's worst ever train accident.
0:54.2	This is the story of the Grahamville train disaster.
1:00.3	Grab a beer and pull up a deck chair. This is True Crime Island, another true crime
1:06.7	podcast.
1:08.7	Most of the articles I'll be reading from today were We're from Radio 2 SM Sydney, ABC News and the
1:16.2	Canberra Times. Also a great shout out to Barry Gobe for the interview at
1:21.8	the end of the podcast.
1:24.0	News to Car 2.
1:26.0	Go ahead.
1:28.0	Steve, could you head out to Granville?
1:30.0	We've got a report of a train derailed.
1:32.0	We don't know much about it yet if you could head out there straight away
1:35.4	Okay heading out there now call in once I get close. Yes, ma'am, I'm on the air from home
1:41.2	mate. Do you still want me to go out to Granville?
1:43.0	Yes, if you could, it looks like it's a big one.
1:46.0	Rescue squads are on the way. They're calling for oxygen.
1:49.0	Apparently there's quite a few people injured.
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