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Uncommon card · Society
Granville rail disaster, an Uncommon card
On Tuesday, 18 January 1977 at Granville, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a crowded commuter train led by a 46 class locomotive derailed, running into the supports of a road bridge that collapsed onto two of the train's passenger carriages.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 47,000
Ranked #2,264 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- While the official inquiry found the primary cause of the crash to be poor fastening of the track, there were a number of factors that were identified as contributing to the accident.
- It remains the deadliest rail disaster in Australian history, 83 people died and 213 were injured.
- An 84th victim, an unborn child, was added to the fatality list in 2017.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Granville rail disaster article was read about 47,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Granville rail disaster
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Granville rail disaster (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies from Blue Mountains, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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