Talk:2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck

message: Is it appropriate to call this a rail disaster? There was nothing wrong with the train or its operation. Were those killed by the tsunami while on vacation part of a hotel disaster? Would Queen of the Sea tsunami incident be more accurate?--Wickifrank (talk) 18:57, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disaster ? 

message: When I initially created this article I provided Samudradevi as the local name of the train, with no attribution as to what language it is. Someone has since ascribed this as being the Tamil name, but given the part of the island the train was running in I would have thought it was more likely to be in Sinhalese. Can someone provide definite information either way? -- Arwel 03:50, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Name of the train is not Queen of the Sea (or in Sinhalese Samudra devi), it had no name its identified as train no 8050. --නිපුන දොඩන්තැන්න (talk) 07:40, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of train 

message: Perhaps, to avoid misleading the statistics, this accident should be mentioned as a train accident, but should be counted as a tsunami accident. Tabletop 04:36, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double counting 

message: "Instead" of what?  I don't understand what this sentence is getting at.  Are the local people claiming the train passengers would not have died if they weren't on the train?  --Doradus (talk) 15:54, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  The train stopped at unusual place due to first tsunami wave. People claiming that official have to reverse the train to last stop Ambalangoda or move ahead to next stop Hikkaduwa as those stations were not affected much from tsunami. --නිපුන දොඩන්තැන්න (talk) 07:53, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't understand this 

message: Samudradevi (Queen of Seas) is the office train which runs between Colombo and Galle on all the week days. Morning from Galle to Colombo and evening from Colombo to Galle. It does not run on weekends and Public Holidays, though on Saturday same train makes a journey to Colombo from Galle with less compartments, but that one is not called Samudradevi. 
The railway disaster happened on a Sunday and a Public holiday (boxing day) and the train which was distroyed by the tsunami was running from Colombo to Galle in the morning and the time was around 9:30 or 10:00 am., when it was striked by tsunami in Thelwaththa, Paraliya. This one is a special train that runs on holidays and weekends
: Its not a special train. Its a daily running train called Train no. 8050. Not Samudra devi. --නිපුන දොඩන්තැන්න (talk) 07:50, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's not Samudradevi 

message: I could be wrong about this, but according to List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Rail accidents and disasters, there were other rail accidents that had higher death tolls 108.75.255.42 (talk) 19:32, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bihar isn't second highest 

message: Why does it say "at least 1,700+"?  If there were about 1,500 paying passengers in the beginning, and then people got on and off the train at stations and there was an unknown number of unpaid passengers, and about 150 survived, then why 1,700 at least? The only known number is 900 recovered bodies, so this is the lower limit. It has to be "at least 900" and "probably / possibly 1,700 or more". --92.73.29.235 (talk) 01:06, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  fatalaties 

message: English 42.108.5.166 (talk) 15:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  English 

message: Hhhhh 42.108.5.166 (talk) 15:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tsunami