This week we are learning about the Tangiwai Rail Disaster
My prediction / what i already know is that it is a railway / train disaster on the 24th of December 1953 (Christmas eve) in Tangiwai and something to do with Lahar
I think I will find out what time it happened, and how it happened, and how many people were on the train and how many people died
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1. 258 people were on the train
2. The Larah began at the top of Mt Ruapehu
3. It took place on the 24th of December 1953
4. There was a man waving a torch
5. The queen gave out medals for peoples bravery
6. An early warning system about the Whangaehu river was installed in 2007
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-The driver braked but it was to late for 5 carriages
-Christmas day awoke to the news that 151 people died
- 21 dead people unidentified
-Mt. Ruapehu ring of fire
-Is a very active volcano / one of the most in the world
-Snow covers the mountain
-1945 Mt. Ruapheu sent Larah down the mountain
-The ice that covers the crater lake begins to melt once its summer
-Around 6:00 pm the train came through Palmerston
-The ash walls around the glacier / crater lake gave out and the water and ice pouring down the mountain.
-It was a wellington to Auckland express
-The driver didn't know that the bridge was destroyed at the time
-The train didn't stop in time
-One first class and four second class carriages fell into the gab in the bridge taking 176 passengers with them
-The other six on the bridge was still connected to the first five in the water
-Only one person in the sixth carriage died, she was trapped under a seat and died because of impact.
-Some bodies were washed into the river never to be found again
-Only two people survived of carriage 3
-The river slowly dropped allowing more people to get out of the sunken train
-You could make out what was left of carriages
-A bunch of children toys were washed up around the river bank
-The remaining survivors were put on a train and sent to Hamilton where relatives would meet them.
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Resources ; The videos above
Reflection
I am learning about the Tangiwai Rail Disaster
This work shows my learning because its facts about the disaster
I am wondering if you go into the lake that there is a possibility that you could find old bones from the missing people
Looking back at my prediction i got it right about being a railway disaster and that is involved Lahar and the date.
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