History Series / TheDayOfTheRoses

* INeedAFreakingDrink: The first thing the shell-shocked Police Rescue Squad does after their work is done is silently amble their way into a bar.

** …or even the second time that that particular bridge had been struck by a train.
** Not to mention, when the bridge was built, it was found to be too short, so the builders put a heavy layer of concrete on top of it, making it more than three times its planned weight.

-->'''Osman:''' Most of the victims will not die immediately. The impact will push them forward in their seats, so that their shoulders are literally lower than their knees. [[AndIMustScream Here they will stay, unable to move, many of them conscious, trapped in the heat and the darkness, as the suffocating gas leaks all around them]]. 141 people, 320 tonnes…

* BittersweetEnding: Weir takes a principled stand and goes against the government's wishes by officially accepting Osman's findings that the locomotive's wheels were also at fault, but it's heavily implied that it factored into his being removed from his position several years later. Additionally, survivors, the bereaved, and traumatized first responders still have to live with what happened.

* CareerEndingInjury: Erica Watson had to give up dancing due to injuries she sustained in the wreck.

** The reason the government tries to speed up Weir's inquest is because $200 million had already been allocated to repair the network's tracks after the derailment and the initial investigation. If it were found that the engine was at fault as well, the costs of making both track ''and'' trains safer would be more than the government could afford.

* DeathbedConfession: The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue notes that shortly before he died, Weir released a letter noting that Murray Farquhar tried to lean on him to finish his investigation quickly.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: The first thing the shell-shocked Police Rescue Squad does after their work is done is amble their way into a bar.

-->'''Weir:''' I have to have someone look over that train. We ''are'' talking about 83 deaths.
-->'''Farquhar:''' 83, was it? Dreadful… [[SkewedPriorities No wonder there's so much work.]]

** It's heavily implied that Weir's decision to go against Murray Farquhar's pressure and accept Osman's findings that the locomotive's wheels were a contributing factor in the derailment is what led to him being removed from his post several years later.

* TakeCareOfTheKids: Scotty keeps his promise to Bryan Gordon, and becomes a friend of his wife and daughter.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Weir is confronted with two options; either he bows to government pressure and rejects Osman's findings about the locomotive, possibly putting more people at risk due to unsafe trains, or he accepts Osman's concerns, which would cost the government more than it could afford to fix both tracks ''and'' trains, and would likely be the end of his career. In the end, he picks the latter.
* TrackTrouble: Part of the reason the train derailed was because the tracks it was running on were badly worn.

* BittersweetEnding: Weir takes a principled stand and goes against the government's wishes by officially accepting Osman's findings that the locomotive's wheels were also at fault, but it's heavily implied that it factored into his being removed from his position several years later, and survivors, the bereaved, and traumatized first responders still have to live with what happened.

* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Sister Margaret Warby has to get the staff at the restaurant she and an equally shell-shocked doctor are at to turn off the TV after it keeps playing news broadcasts of Granville.

* DreamCrushingHandicap: Erica Watson had to give up dancing due to injuries she sustained in the wreck.

* AdHominem: The railway's lawyers try to attack Osman's credibility as an expert witness.

* DrowningMySorrows: The first thing the shell-shocked Police Rescue Squad does after their work is done is amble their way into a bar.

** Even some of those freed from under the bridge would later succumb to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_syndrome crush syndrome]].

* DrowningMySorrows: The first thing the Police Rescue Squad does after their work is done is amble their way into a bar.

* ThanksForTheMammary: Due to her injuries, Gerry has to grab Margaret Shuttler by the breast to help her out of the wreckage.

* TheWoobie: Just about everyone involved with Granville – survivors, bereaved family and loved ones, traumatized first responders…

* MoralDilemma: Weir is confronted with two options; either he bows to government pressure and rejects Osman's findings about the locomotive, possibly putting more people at risk due to unsafe trains, or he accepts Osman's concerns, which would cost the government more than it could afford to fix both tracks ''and'' trains, and would likely be the end of his career. In the end, he picks the latter.

On the morning of January 18th, 1977, a commuter train derails and collides with a bridge in Granville, a suburb of UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}, causing the bridge to collapse on top of two packed coaches. 84 people are killed and countless more are injured. Four months later, as Coroner Tom Weir prepares to hold an inquest into the disaster, he starts getting pressure from the New South Wales government (which owns the railway) to wrap up his investigation quickly and uncontroversially. Weir soon calls upon the expertise of engineer Boris "B.O." Osman, who feels that the inquiries done up to this point are missing some key pieces of evidence, and that a more thorough investigation is in order.

* DeathOfAChild: Two young girls were among the dead at Granville (as were their grandparents who were riding with them). Additionally, what the series didn't mention was that an unborn baby was also killed, but it wasn't added to the official death toll until 2017.

* HeatWave: It's repeatedly mentioned that the derailment took place on a hot (Australian) summer morning.

* CorruptBureaucrat: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Farquhar Murray Farquhar]] is portrayed as one, being the closest thing the series has to an outright villain as he leans on Weir to speed up the investigation before anything gets unearthed that might embarrass the government or the railway. The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue notes that he was later jailed over an unrelated matter.

On the morning of January 18th, 1977, a commuter train derails and collides with a bridge in Granville, a suburb of UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}. 84 people are killed and countless more are injured. Four months later, as Coroner Tom Weir prepares to hold an inquest into the disaster, he starts getting pressure from the New South Wales government (which owns the railway) to wrap up his investigation quickly and uncontroversially. Weir soon calls upon the expertise of engineer Boris "B.O." Osman, who feels that the inquiries done up to this point are missing some key pieces of evidence, and that a more thorough investigation is in order.

* YourTvHatesYou: Sister Margaret Warby has to get the staff at the restaurant she and an equally shell-shocked doctor are at to turn off the TV after it keeps playing news broadcasts of Granville.

* YourTVHatesYou: Sister Margaret Warby has to get the staff at the restaurant she and an equally shell-shocked doctor are at to turn off the TV after it keeps playing news broadcasts of Granville.