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When 143 People Vanished: The Bridge That Shouldn't Have Fallen
When 143 People Vanished: The Bridge That Shouldn't Have Fallen
The crowd that day thought they were on a routine holiday ride; instead, 143 passengers plunged into cold water when the bridge’s center span gave way in seconds. How did welded iron substituted for weldless, long-neglected maintenance, and unchecked passenger loads combine to turn a Queen Victoria birthday celebration into a mass drowning?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline, the mechanical and administrative failures, and the human details that followed the collapse - from the conductor’s fare count to the rising death…
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