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	Queen of the Sea train disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Queen of the Sea (Sinhala: Samudradevi) was a train operating between Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the southern resort town of Galle.
		At this point in its journey, the train was overwhelmed by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, estimated to be 6m high.
		The train was derailed and its carriages filled with water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queen_of_the_Sea_train_disaster (213 words)

	List of rail accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the train approached its destination, the bridge spanning the Desjardins Canal collapsed as the train derailed.
		November 16, 1960 – Stéblová train disaster, Czechoslovakia: 118 are killed and 110 injured in a head-on collision.
		January 8, 1962 – The Harmelen train disaster, the worst railway accident in the history of The Netherlands, occurs when one passenger train driver misses a warning signal in fog and passes a red signal to collide nearly head-on with another passenger train.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Train_disaster (5875 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Sri Lanka disaster - The Samudra Devi (Ocean Queen) - Sri Lanka 's Death Train
		Named with grim irony Samudradevi, or Queen of the Sea, the train that left Colombo Fort station shortly after 9am on Sunday for its regular run to the southern city of Galle was full even by Sri Lankan standards.
		At the disaster scene yesterday scores of troops were lifting bodies out of the wreckage and the water logged chaos of fallen trees and ruined buildings which surrounded it.
		The Queen of the Sea's fate qualifies as the world's worst rail accident, outstripping the death toll of around 800 who died when a cyclone blew a train off a bridge into the Bagmati river in Bihar, India, in 1981.
	www.lankalibrary.com /news/train.htm (3944 words)

	'Queen of the Sea' swept away - World - The Washington Times, America?s Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		TELWATTA, Sri Lanka -- More than 800 people were killed when their train, the "Queen of the Sea," was swept off the track by the raging tsunami this week, police said, and several hundred bodies pulled from the twisted wreckage were buried yesterday alongside the railway line.
		The train was carrying 1,000 people from Colombo to a southern beach resort when it came to a stop just before its destination as waters began to rise Sunday.
		The destruction across Sri Lanka's coasts from the disaster was so heavy that authorities were not immediately aware of the loss of the train, said Sasanka Jayasekara, a lawyer and member of the local government.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20041228-094118-1390r.htm (595 words)

	Battles with the Sea by R.M. Ballantyne : Arthur's Classic Novels
		All these disasters were caused by the masters of the vessels mistaking the south for the north pier, in consequence of having lost sight of Tynemouth light in the blinding showers.
		Three heavy seas struck the steamer so severely as to divert her from her course, and she ran on the rocks close to the Friendship, so close that the cries of her crew could be heard above the whistling winds and thundering waves.
		Once the boat has got fairly over the surf and out upon the wild sea, her progress is comparatively safe, simple tugging against wind and sea being all that has to be done until the wreck is reached, where dangers of another kind await her.
	arthurwendover.com /arthurs/ball/btlsea10.html (21033 words)

	USATODAY.com - Disaster on Sri Lankan train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		TELWATTA, Sri Lanka (AP) — More than 800 people were killed when their train, the "Queen of the Sea," was swept off the track by this week's raging tsunami, police said, and several hundred bodies pulled from the twisted wreckage were buried Tuesday alongside the railway line.
		The train was carrying 1,000 residents of Colombo to a southern beach resort when it came to a stop just before its destination as waters began to rise Sunday.
		The destruction across Sri Lanka's coasts from Sunday's disaster was so heavy that authorities were not immediately aware of train's loss, said Sasanka Jayasekara, a lawyer and member of the local government.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-12-28-tsunami-train_x.htm (716 words)

	Sea Wing disaster
		The Sea Wing was a stern-wheel rafter, 135-feet long, 22-feet in height — her height was said to make her skittish in wind — weighing about 110 tons.
		The majority of the 98 Sea Wing victims were from Red Wing, and a local undertaker would suffer a nervous breakdown because of the rush of bodies, it’s said.
		Disasters often seem leavened with omens and premonitions and the Sea Wing disaster is no different.
	www.hometownsource.com /features/SeaWingDisaster/SeaWing.html (2727 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Train offered no escape from a deadly wall of water
		TELWATTA, Sri Lanka -- The train known as the Queen of the Sea chugged slowly up the sandy, palm-fringed coast of eastern Sri Lanka, carrying hundreds of residents from the capital to visit relatives or enjoy a day at the sunny resorts near the town of Galle.
		The train had nearly reached its destination Sunday when the tsunami struck -- a wall of water some 30 feet high, enveloping the Queen and lifting its cars off the track into a thick marsh, killing at least 802 people.
		In the utter wasteland around this once picturesque area, the train stands out -- both as a testament to the force of nature that tossed it off the tracks and as the largest single loss of life on an island that suffered at least 21,700 dead.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/12/29/train_offered_no_escape_from_a_deadly_wall_of_water?mode=PF (806 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Train makes first post-tsunami trip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As the train pulled out, scores of people at the station, which was also decorated with Sri Lankan flags and oil lamps -- a symbol of goodwill -- clapped and cheered.
		In Peraliya, which was wiped away by the tsunami and where tents for the homeless still dot the landscape of uprooted coconut trees and strewn debris, fisherman Kumudu Priyantha pointed to a coach where he put his wife and two young daughters quickly after the waves smashed their house.
		The train had been chugging slowly up the sandy, palm-fringed coast and was at Peraliya, near the historic city of Galle, when the waves struck, twisting the 80-ton engine.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/02/20/train_makes_first_post_tsunami_trip (544 words)

	The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad : Arthur's Classic Novels
		But directly she is clear of the narrow seas, heading out into the world with nothing solid to speak of between her and the South Pole, the anchors are got in and the cables disappear from the deck.
		Then in the increasing gale of the sea there would be a little private ship's storm going on in which you could detect strong language, pronounced in a tone of passion and exculpatory protestations uttered with every possible inflection of injured innocence.
		The sea does not close upon the water-logged hull with a sunny ripple, or maybe with the angry rush of a curling wave, erasing her name from the roll of living ships.
	arthursclassicnovels.com /arthurs/conrad/tmots10.html (19919 words)

	Hundreds died when tsunami hit train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Massive tidal waves flung a train off its tracks, and many of the 1,000 passengers are either dead or missing, police said.
		In the utter wasteland around this once-picturesque area, the train stands out -- both as a testament to the force of nature that tossed it off the tracks and as the largest single loss of life on an island that suffered at least 18,706 dead.
		One thousand tickets for the train were sold in Colombo, and rescuers recovered 802 bodies from the train's cars, said a military spokesman.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04364/434014.stm (748 words)

	CW Teacher's Pack: Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The difficulty in crossing seas lay in insulating the single core of the cable to prevent a short circuit through the sea water and so to the earth.
		They assumed that once the cable lay on the sea bed it would be quite safe and only those sections nearest the shore would need to be protected with a sheath of lead.
		When a cable is surrounded by sea water (which conducts electricity) the rate at which it can transmit messages decreases.
	www.cwhistory.com /history/TeacherPack/TPpart2.html (2929 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Sea of Trolls: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Disaster strikes when he and his little sister Lucy are hauled away from their home in the North of England by a villainous-looking crew of Viking Berserkers led by Olaf One-Brow.
		Jack and Lucy are hauled in front of King Ivar the Boneless and Queen Frith--a half troll with a fearsome temper--who is angered beyond measure when one of Jack’s spells causes her hair to fall out.
		Ivar is married to a half-troll named Frith, an evil and unpredictable queen with a strange power over her husband's court.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/068986096X (1302 words)

	Disaster/Rescue Page
		A train derailed in one of the quakes, but thankfully only a small number of injuries were reported.
		The four rail cars of the south-bound passenger train were crushed on impact as the empty train slammed into them, ending up on top of one passenger car.
		The wreckage of the first train versus truck accident was then, in turn, struck by a another train traveling in the opposite direction.
	www.emergency.com /disaster.htm (12739 words)

	Special to Revolution: After the Sea Stood Up - revcom.us
		Then I looked at the sea and I saw this huge wave coming at me. I ran but the wave caught up with me. I tried to swim with the wave, trying to get up to some of those trees up there.
		There is an old gate through the Fort walls down at sea level and the water was coming through that like a huge fire hydrant, just shooting through, with cars and boats, and hitting the building opposite and flooding the lower part of the Fort.
		Suitcases and briefcases, belonging to both the villagers and the passengers on the tsunami-wrecked Queen of the Sea train, lay bent and broken open along the edges of the lagoon and sometimes partly submerged in it.
	rwor.org /a/003/tsunami-walls-galle-fort.htm (2764 words)

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	NewsFromRussia.Com Runaway train disaster in Montenegro caused by driver
		Investigators believe a "human factor" was behind the train accident in Montenegro that left 44 dead and nearly 200 injured, an official said Wednesday.
		Queen Elizabeth II is to pay her first visit to the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in October, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday.
		Prince Harry, 21-year-old grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, is to join the Blues and Royals regiment of the venerable Household Cavalry, and could serve in Iraq, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2006/01/25/71738.html (2687 words)

	CNN.com - Sri Lanka train survivor describes wall of water - Dec 31, 2004
		"The second wave hit the train as it was at this angle and it sort of pushed the train inland to the point where it got wedged against the house.
		And I was able to jump from the top of this train to the top of this house and climb up as high up onto the roof as possible," Ravindra said.
		The train was completely submerged by this time and the water continued to rise.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/30/srilanka.train (869 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Strike halts tsunami train return
		The last regular service of Sri Lanka's Queen of the Sea ended in what is believed to be the world's worst train disaster, in the Asian tsunami.
		The coastal route was suspended after the 26 December tsunami that took the lives of nearly 31,000 Sri Lankans, perhaps more than 800 of them from the Queen of the Sea.
		The force of the tsunami threw the train's eight cars into a bog and left the coastal railroad a twisted mess of metal.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/4283459.stm (316 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shortly after, the flag-decorated engine and its six coaches continued along the restored line, passing by three wrecked coaches of the Queen of the Sea, set on parallel tracks as a memorial.
		As the train pulled out, scores of people at the station clapped and cheered.
		Engine 59 and the eight coaches of the Queen of the Sea have become an icon of the Dec. 26 tragedy that killed nearly 31,000 people in Sri Lanka.
	www.katu.com /printstory.asp?ID=75113 (454 words)

	The Queen of All Evil - Why I Didn't Jump On The Kanye West Train
		The real disaster was our own government's inadequate and delayed response to a natural disaster the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetimes.
		Training, preparation, etc, for both continental military emergencies, like terrorism and border control, and natural disasters.
		The news is full of reports of many, many Democrats blaming Bush for all aspects of this disaster from global warming, to funding for levees to targeting fl folks for the flooding to the structure of DHS and FEMA.
	www.qoae.net /posts/1126012525.shtml (11178 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Survivors tell of tsunami train horror
		Survivors of what is believed to be the world's worst rail accident have been telling the BBC News website of their experiences.
		"The water came in about 60ft [20m] from the sea, and the whole train was filled with water.
		Reeling from the waves the train spun over and over, cartwheeling four times before coming to rest on a hillock.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4132247.stm (951 words)

	At sea
		She was a wonderful queen bitch in her younger days; Cindy and I joked that she must have been an Egyptian royal cat in a former life.
		Then she got fat and we called her "cow cat," and for Cindy's birthday one year I found a card in the Brown bookstore that actually was an artist's picture titled "Cow cat" and we had a good laugh about it.
		There it was, in a sea of worthless, shoddy, utterly disposable junk, and I thought how cool would it be if you stripped everything else off the shelves and replaced them with that.
	moominpapa.livejournal.com (2691 words)

	Wall of water tossed train, killing hundreds - baltimoresun.com
		The train had nearly reached its destination Sunday when the tsunami struck -- a wall of water 30 feet high, enveloping the Queen and lifting its cars off the track into a thick marsh, killing at least 802 people.
		Authorities took fingerprints of the dead so they could be identified later, he said, but it seemed unlikely anyone would find the time to try.
		The owners included an electricity board secretary, an assistant lecturer at a state research institute of social development and a student from the University of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/local/bal-te.train29dec29,0,6078735.story (658 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The train's 2,000 reported victims also included villagers who had jumped on board seeking safety from the waves or were crushed by the carriages.
		The 29 skeletons were recovered Monday from muddy water, said Consul Korala, the police chief of Meetiyagoda, close to where the Queen of the Sea train was swept away by the giant waves about 50 miles south of the capital, Colombo.
		Sri Lanka's National Disaster Management Center under the Social Services Ministry have said the death toll from the tsunami stands at more than 31,000.
	www.ksdk.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75877 (574 words)

	Westray Mine Disaster Index
		...The lack of training and education of miners and company officials in safety matters played a prominent role in the failure to develop a culture that rejects acceptance, condonation, and participation in activities which present unmanageable safety risks.
		The inquiry into the Westray mine disaster discovered an instance in which a government official had removed references to "potentially embarrassing matters" from records that were accessible under the province's FOI law (Richard, 1997, 491).
		It has been five years since the disaster and officials are still waiting to speak with the man who held the final authority at the Westray Coal Mine.
	www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/wraymenu.html (11112 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Britain's worst sea disaster recalled
		But the afternoon was to end in disaster as, at about 4pm, the ship was struck by a succession of German bombs, causing at least 3,500 deaths.
		"One of the worst things was it was an oil burning ship so the seas were full of oil and some of it caught fire, as the Germans were strafing it with bullets.
		Small boats rushed to try to pick up survivors, but in the end only 2,500 were saved, making it the single worst maritime disaster in British history.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4104996.stm (767 words)

	CBC News: More than 68,000 dead in Asian disaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Passengers aboard the train that was called the Queen of the Sea were buried along the tracks.
		Police estimate about 1,000 people were killed when the train was knocked off the rails by a tsunami on Sunday.
		The train had been stopped in its tracks by rising waters before the wave derailed it altogether.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/12/28/tsunamidead041228.html (575 words)

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