Talk:Tangiwai disaster

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not nice when its from your own country, and defacing a sober article about mass death.moza 01:35, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: vandalism noted

message: I was wondering if anyone out there would be interested in working with me to seriously enhance this article's depth and scope.  I'd like to see just how far we could take this article, perhaps even to Good Article status - ideally get it so far as Featured Article status on the anniversary of the disaster one year, but that would obviously require a huge deal of work.  I have often thought about significantly expanding this article as it is a topic very close to me, but found it too hard so far as I lost two relatives in the disaster and a third relative was one of the very few second class survivors (I lost another four relatives in the Hyde railway disaster, an article I'd also like to see enhanced - makes you wonder why on earth I'm a railfan!).  If we were to make a serious effort to boost the quality of the article, though, that would help motivate me to add all that I can.  I can provide more textual detail of the actual disaster, but we could also probably use things like photos of the accident itself, a location map, a map of where the carriages ended up, etc.  So is there any interest out there? - Axver 00:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the article 

message: I noticed that in the first part of the article you say that Waiouru is 10km from Tangiwai but then in the details of the event you say the rescue workers set out from Waiouru which you then say is 5km from Tangiwai. Sorry if this is not the right way to correct something. I've not done this before.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ezboticus (talk • contribs) 06:16, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted.  I'm not sure of the answer myself, but Google Maps gives  via the State Highway from Waiouru to the river, but about  for Waiouru to Tangiwai.  I think that New Zealand were still using miles in 1953, so I suspect that someone confused 5 miles with 5 kilometres, and the railway is less direct than the road (if I read the satellite image correctly). Tim PF (talk) 23:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distances from Waiouru 

message: Does anyone wish to add a section on the work of fiction shortly to appear on Television New Zealand?  To judge from early reports it will be completely inaccurate, and an insulting travesty of the events.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 03:19, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Television drama 

message: User:Piledhigheranddeeper added an html comment to the article, following the words "Cyril Ellis, a passerby, standing by the track and waving a torch":
:an "electric torch" or the classic piece of wood with one end ablaze? 
Ellis was a Taihape postman, who stopped his car on seeing the bridge. It would almost certainly have been an "electric torch", but I can't find a source which actually says that.-gadfium 18:35, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In New Zealand English, torch simply means a flashlight operated from dry cell batteries, and is almost certainly what is meant. Akld guy (talk) 08:20, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Ellis' torch