A photograph taken by Russell McPhedran of the Granville train disaster, Sydney, on 18 January 1977. Eighty-three people died and 213 were injured when a crowded Sydney- bound, eight-carriage commuter train, which had left Mount Victoria in the Blue Mountains at 6.09am, left the rails at about 8.10am, careened along for 46 metres before striking the supports of the overhead Bold Street bridge, which was constructed of steel and concrete. See ANHG 98.1.4 below. AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER HISTORY GROUP NEWSLETTER ISSN 1443-4962 No. 98 July 2018 Publication details Compiled for the Australian Newspaper History Group by Rod Kirkpatrick, U 337, 55 Linkwood Drive, Ferny Hills, Qld, 4055. Ph. +61-7-3351 6175. Email:
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[email protected] Back copies of the Newsletter and some ANHG publications can be viewed online at: http://www.amhd.info/anhg/index.php Deadline for the next Newsletter: 30 September 2018 Subscription details appear at end of Newsletter. [Number 1 appeared October 1999.] Ten issues had appeared by December 2000 and the Newsletter has since appeared five times a year. 1—Current Developments: National & Metropolitan EDITOR’S NOTE ON ANHG 100: There’s something magical about attaining a century, whether it’s by a batsman in cricket, people in their lifespan or a company in its business life. Newspapers mark centenaries (and, more recently, sesqui-centenaries) with celebrations and speeches, and sometimes even get their date of establishment correct. The first newspaper-history article I wrote, 41 years ago, was about a newspaper that got its date of birth wrong and celebrated its centenary on the wrong date.