GRANVILLE ANNIVERSARY
by AAP Source: AAP
Soon after 8.00am on January 18, 1977, a crowded commuter train travelling to Sydney city from Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains derailed at Granville in Sydney's western suburbs. It struck Bold Street Bridge near Granville Station, causing the 170-tonne concrete bridge to collapse on to the third and fourth carriages, killing 83 people and injuring more than 200 others. The crash set in motion rescue scenes never before witnessed in the country as emergency services searched for survivors and attended to the dead and injured.
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