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Iron Road
by Sami Indonesian
Iron Road tells the true stories of the world's great railway disasters and the making of railway safety. Each episode, host Nirob takes one disaster — a bridge that failed under a train in a winter storm, a signalman who forgot a train was coming, a runaway train on a mountain grade, a high-speed train that derailed in the night — and rebuilds it: the railway and the technology of its age, the rules and the procedures that failed or were ignored, the accident as it happened, and the change in the signalling, the brakes, the training and the safety culture that came out of the wreck.From the first great bridge disaster at Norwalk to the fall of the Ashtabula bridge, from Armagh and Quintinshill to Harrow and Clapham, from Eschede and Ladbroke Grove to Amagasaki, Wenzhou, Santiago and Lac-Mégantic, Iron Road is the story of how the most dangerous form of transport ever invented became, by the measures of the modern age, one of the safest. Meticulously researched, clear about
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The Curve at Amagasaki
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Red Light at Ladbroke Grove
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Wheel at Eschede
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Knot in the Wiring
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Fog at Harrow
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The Tunnel of Sleep
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Dutchman's Curve
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Runaway Carriages
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Signalman's Mistake
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Bridge in the Snowstorm
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Bridge at Norwalk
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Iron Road tells the true stories of the world's great railway disasters and the making of railway safety. Each episode, host Nirob takes one disaster — a bridge that failed under a train in a winter storm, a signalman who forgot a train was coming, a runaway train on a mountain grade, a high-speed train that derailed in the night — and rebuilds it: the railway and the technology of its age, the rules and the procedures that failed or were ignored, the accident as it happened, and the change in the signalling, the brakes, the training and the safety culture that came out of the wreck.From the first great bridge disaster at Norwalk to the fall of the Ashtabula bridge, from Armagh and Quintinshill to Harrow and Clapham, from Eschede and Ladbroke Grove to Amagasaki, Wenzhou, Santiago and Lac-Mégantic, Iron Road is the story of how the most dangerous form of transport ever invented became, by the measures of the modern age, one of the safest. Meticulously researched, clear about
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Sami Indonesian
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Iron Road tells the true stories of the world's great railway disasters and the making of railway safety. Each episode, host Nirob takes one disaster — a bridge that failed under a train in a winter storm, a signalman who forgot a train was coming, a runaway train on a mountain grade, a high-speed...
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Iron Road is created and hosted by Sami Indonesian.
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