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Waterfall train disaster Friday 31 st January2003

Waterfall train disaster Friday 31 st January2003. A Tangara intercity train service, set G7, which had come from Central Station at 6:24 am, departed Waterfall railway station heading south towards Port Kembla Station via Wollongong.

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Waterfall train disaster Friday 31 st January2003

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  1. Waterfall train disaster Friday 31st January2003

  2. A Tangara intercity train service, set G7, which had come from Central Station at 6:24 am, departed Waterfall railway station heading south towards Port Kembla Station via Wollongong.

  3. At approximately 7.15 in the morning, the driver had a heart attack, and the train, travelling at the excessive speed of 117 km/h as it was approaching a 60km/h curve, derailed, overturned, and collided with the rock wall beside it.

  4. This train was said to have been reported for technical problems as many as twelve times, and had developed a reputation amongst the mechanical operations branch, saying that these problems were "normal". In the six months up to the accident, three reports of technical problems were filed.

  5. Marks near the deadman's pedal indicated that some drivers were wedging a conveniently sized signalling flag to defeat the deadman's pedal, in order to prevent their leg from cramping in the poorly configured foot well and to give themselves freedom of movement in the cabin. In this case, the dead man's brake failed to function.

  6. Official findings into the accident also blamed an "underdeveloped safety culture". There has been criticisms of the way CityRail managed safety issues that arose, resulting in what the Ministry of Transport called a "a reactive approach to risk management".

  7. Rescue workers who attended the scene were impeded from accessing the trapped passengers on the train as they did not have the keys required to open the emergency exit doors. Emergency exit mechanisms have all been upgraded to allow them to be used without requiring a key. Railcorp has installed internal emergency door release mechanisms on all the new trains.

  8. Seven people, including the driver, died in the crash, and 43 people were injured, 21 of those seriously

  9. The driver Herman Zeides was killed in the derailment.The state coroner named the passengers killed as James Ritchie, Yi Zhang, Mark Hudson, John Burt, Marie Goder and Andrew Ludmon

  10. Stephen “Smokey” Dawson

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