book ☆ Weeping Waters Æ Anne Maria Nicholson

On Christmas Eve 1953 shortly after 10pm a lahar torrent of water gushed out of the crater of Mount Ruapehu and swept down the valley fatally weakening a railway bridge minutes before a packed overnight express train nose dived into a river at tangiwai in the centre of the North Island Many of the 285 passengers mostly families and young people were asleep and 151 perished in one of the world's worst train disasters For Maori the traged Story worked better when focused on the scientific and cultural rather than the romantic

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Weeping WatersY was inevitable the train track should never have been built across the volcano's path tangiwai means weeping waters and was known as the place of torrential flows and death In Weeping Waters the memories of tangiwai drive those who live there fifty years on to look for ways to tame Ruapehu where another deadly lahar is building Set between 1953 and the present day the novel is based on events surrounding the tangiwai disaster and the I found this book really emotional in parts and very informative The Tangiwai train disas