Talk:Dee Bridge disaster

Fatalities
This could use a note about fatalities -- I assume there were people on the train who were killed? --Xkcd 04:51, 31 August 2006 (UTC)Xkcd


 * Five people died, as already noted in the article! P.r.lewis

Official Report
The official report is available on-line at The Victorian Archive (http://victoria.cdlr.strath.ac.uk). Unfortunately, it's not possible to directly link to the entire report, only individual pages; to find the report, do a search on "Dee Bridge 1847". The report should soon be available in a more accessible location on The Railways Archive. Tevildo (talk) 13:19, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Confusing sentence
"Although strong in compression, cast iron was known to be brittle in tension or bending, yet on the day of the accident the bridge deck was covered with track ballast to prevent the oak beams supporting the track from catching fire." I don't see what relevance the bridge deck being covered with ballast has to the properties of cast iron. If the suggestion is that it was overloaded, it needs a citation. Can someone explain or change the sentence, please? 83.104.249.240 (talk) 03:32, 2 March 2009 (UTC)