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Re: India train crash: More than 120 dead after Odisha incident
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2023, 11:11:38 PM »
Bloody hell - that's almost as bad as Quintinshill! I thought tragedies on that scale were impossible nowadays.
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Re: India train crash: More than 120 dead after Odisha incident
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2023, 08:55:47 AM »
Bloody hell - that's almost as bad as Quintinshill! I thought tragedies on that scale were impossible nowadays.
Now sadly over 260 dead.

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Re: India train crash: More than 120 dead after Odisha incident
« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2023, 11:09:06 AM »
Now sadly over 260 dead.
Now worse than Quintinshill, which was Britain's worst ever, but still not in the global top 10.
https://www.therichest.com/the-biggest/the-10-deadliest-train-wrecks-of-all-time/
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