Talk:Granville rail disaster

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Ultimately, 84 people were killed in the accident which included an unborn child.[edit]

An accident can have an unborn child?

How about "Ultimately, 84 people, including an unborn child, were killed in the accident."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.158.254.128 (talk) 19:58, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

crush proceedures[edit]

Several injured passengers were trapped in the train, for hours after the accident, by part of the bridge crushing a limb or torso. Some had been conscious and lucid, talking to rescuers, but died of crush syndrome soon after the weight was removed from their bodies. This was due to the sudden release of substances such as potassium from the injured limb. This resulted in changes to rescue procedures for these kinds of accidents.

Does somebody know a source to cite or obtain detail of this (particularly the changed proceedures)? Cesiumfrog (talk) 06:30, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

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removed unsourced content[edit]

Hi there - I've removed a section of unsourced content. Diff Indeed, it's been tagged since June 2019 as requiring verification. The info speaks of a "cover-up" and offers an alternative "real reason" and refers to uncited "research for a book". It's not up to wikipedia standards, and I've removed it accordingly. I have also removed some of this info that was placed into the lead today...the editor adding it to the lead noted on my talk page that he/she was merely taking the existing info and summarising in the lead. --Merbabu (talk) 04:57, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Cause[edit]

The one-sentence second para of the intro is: "The official enquiry found the primary cause of the crash to be poor fastening of the track, which caused the track to spread derailing the locomotive."
However, in the info box the cause is "maintenance of [locomotive no.] 4620."
The info box is incorrect. As stated in the intro, poor track maintenance was the problem, not the locomotive.
The cause in the info box needs to be corrected. I suggest "maintenance of the permanent way".
Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 07:14, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

ah - good pick up. Yes, info box should be fixed.
A version of this article from a few months ago had the "official enquiry" findings and then went on to talk of a cover-up(!) about loco maintenance - and had not verifiable sources to back it up. I removed the conspiracy theroy cover-up version from the article. Looks like i missed the info box which still has the conspiracy version, and should be changed??? --Merbabu (talk) 07:54, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
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