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There should be plenty of good reference material at the Railway Safety Standards Board website
http://www.rssb.co.uk as well as ramfications of the disaster, Cullen report etc. if someone has enough time to go through all of it.
Davetracy23:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)reply
The track had been replaced with track from an Italian supplier which had been gauged at a metricised 4'8½", rounding the gauge down. The effect was that train wheels rode higher on the flanges of the wheel rather than on the wheel tyres themselves, repeatedly forcing the track apart beyond the design tolerance of the track chairs and sleepers. This cold working of the rail webs, the link between the rail surface and its seating, increased the metal granularity and microstress fractures in the webs leading to eventual fracture. — Preceding
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176.25.40.112 (
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11:00, 26 July 2013 (UTC)reply
It's a sentence fragment, so as with a final full stop, an initial capital isn't really mandatory. But I would argue for consistency: consider the parameter |cause=Broken rail - either decapitalise that one to |cause=broken rail, or capitalise the one in question to |injuries=Over 70 --
Redrose64 (
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16:58, 18 October 2016 (UTC)reply
"A root cause of the accident was a lack of good communication, so that all staff were aware of maintenance procedures." - Rephrase. Reads like two random phrases mashed together. Maybe something along the lines of, "A root cause of the accident was a lack of good communication to the staff about maintenance procedures."
Done; by the way, I personally recommend not referring to references by number, as a copyedit that reorders paragraphs and sentences can rearrange the whole sequence so things don't make sense anymore.
Ritchie333(talk)(cont)10:17, 17 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Yeah normally, I would post a permalink of what edition I'm referring to for the ref numbers, but as I didn't think there would be many changes or ref number changes, I didn't bother for this GAN. — YellowDingo(talk)10:33, 17 October 2016 (UTC)reply