The Weesp Embankment
from After the Alarm
On 13 September 1918 the railway embankment leading up to the bridge over the Merwede Canal near Weesp slid away beneath the morning express from Amersfoort to Amsterdam. Forty-one people died in the wooden carriages. The inquiry traced the failure to water trapped inside a sand embankment, and the questions it raised are remembered as the starting point of soil mechanics in the Netherlands. The narrator's voice is synthetic (AI). Selection, research, writing and checking are done by a person.
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