Day of the Roses

06/09/2015

20/01/2015

I would like to continue to add to the photo album of those who lost their lives in the memorial album, with a photo of the loved one lost and a story about them. Also please feel free to send your story, how this event affected you and your family or if you would just like to send an email feel free to email me (Christine) to [email protected] and I will be honored to post up up stories if you wish for them to be put onto the page.
Please share this page with friends, family, other victims family, survivors etc. The more people added the more stories will be told and a larger support network formed. God bless you and your families
Christine - page manager

18/01/2015

Those we love remain with us,
For love itself lives on
Cherished memories never fade.
Because one loved is gone
Those we love can never be
More than a thought apart
For as long as there is a memory
They live on in our heart.

Our thoughts and payers are with everybody, as we take the time to remember, the 83 people who died today 38 years ago, those people who survived and forever lived with the memories, friends, families and those that were involved on the day.

17/01/2015

We who love you, sadly miss you
As it dawns another year
In our lonely hours of thinking
Thoughts of you are ever near.

18/01/2014

18/01/2014

Take a moment to remember those that lost their lives today 37 year ago, gone but never forgotten.

God bless all family, friends, survivors and those who risked their lives to help others

Eric Ball
David Pearson
Graham Stewart
Henry Bent
Josephine Pearson
Linda Styles
Stephen Black
Bruce Pederson
Robert Sulter
Anthony Brennan
James Fisher
Robert Tarrant
Alda Brown
Suzanne Fripp
John Veevers
Margaret Brown
Alan Fulton
Milton Walker
Kathy Cain
William Gemmell
Jan Post
Mary Carr
Brian Gordon
Jill Power
Lynette Carter
Diane Gosden
Lynette Prior
Jeffrey Charlton
Beryl Halverson
John Quayle
Jill Clayton
Rodney Henderson
Elvie Radford
Amanda Clements
Cheryl Hutchinson
Vivienne Radedge
Ross Clements
Graeme Johnston
Marie Ricketts
Phillip Coburn
Stephen Jones
Suzanne Walker
Peter Cormack
John Jones
Elizabeth Ward
Halwyn Cranfield
Karen Keen
Rosemary Ward
Peter Cullen
Bryan Knight
David Watts
Michael Douwer
Marina Krzyszton
Francis Williams
Margaret Dunn
Angela Larkin
Teenie Williams
Carl Dykman
Rosemary Leech
Christopher Ellem
Christopher Lopez
Deborah Metcalf
Michael Lyons
Marjorie Miles
Kenneth Maes
Walter Miles
Carolyne Maroney
Zarb Mincarelli
Louise Sharp
Leslie Mitchell
Amir Simaan
William Morris
Denald Simpson
Campbell Morris
Esther Smith
Gladys Murphy
Julia Sollom
Darcy Murphy
Robert Sollom
Ariette Naggar
Kevin Spicer
Christopher Parsons
Margaret Spinks

17/01/2014

Our thoughts and prayers are with family and friends of the loved ones that lost their lives 37 years ago. God bless you all

15/01/2014

I would like to continue to add to the photo album of those who lost their lives in the memorial album, with a photo of the loved one lost and a story about them. Inez Hanson, Danielle Johnson and Kim Furini has shared their fathers photo and stories with us. If you would also like to share your lost loved ones story please feel free to email me (Christine Irsak) to [email protected] and I will be honoured to post up their story.
Please share this page with friends, family, other victims family, survivors etc. the more people added the more stories will be told and a larger support network formed. God bless you and your families
Christine Irsak - page manager

15/01/2014

The 37th Anniversary of the Granville Train Disaster is being held on Saturday January 18th 2014 at the Town Hall.
Doors open at 10.30am light music will be played whilst being seated
At 11.00am service starts with the blessing of the roses and the lighting of the candle, reflection, prayers, readings and speeches in memory of those who lost their lives
Then onto the Memorial wall for the handing out of the roses, prayers and the laying of the wreaths
Then moving to the bridge for the dropping of the roses
Then moving back to the town hall for light music and refreshments

Everyone is welcome to attended for those who are unable to attended please take a moment of your day to remember the 83 people who lost their lives and their families.

The fallen roses
Such beauty and such sorrow

Will we all find tomorrow

But there's no need for tears

For our lord god is near

Mother brings forth a child

The clouds bring forth the rain

The roses bring forth the love

And death brings forth the pain

Respect the ones who fell in battle

And if a friend survived

Hold them close and let them know

You're glad that they're alive

“The Granville Train Disaster” By Dan Monty

19/01/2013

I would like to continue to add to the photo album of those who lost their lives in the memorial album, with a photo of the loved one lost and a story about them. Inez Hanson, Danielle Johnson and Kim Furini has shared their fathers photo and stories with us. If you would also like to share your lost loved ones story please feel free to email me (Christine Irsak) to [email protected] and I will be honoured to post up their story.
Please share this page with friends, family, other victims family, survivors etc. the more people added the more stories will be told and a larger support network formed. God bless you and your families
Christine Irsak - page manager

The day of the roses - 1977 Granville Train Disaster On January 1977, Locomotive 4620 left Mt Victoria in the Blue Mountains at 6.09am heading towards the Sydney Terminal. As the Locomotive neared the Granville Terminal only 2km towards Sydney at 8.12am the trains right hand wheel derailed, the driv...

18/01/2013

18/01/2013

A place where children are What kind of place would heaven be with all its streets of gold, if al, the souls, that dwell up there like your and mine, were old? How strange would heavens music sound wheat harps begin to ring, if children were not gathered 'round to help the angels sing. The children that god send to us are only just a loan, he knows we need their sunshine to make a house a home, we need the inspiration of a baby's blessed smile. He doesn't say they've come to stay, just lends them for a while. Sometimes it tame them years to do work for which they come. Sometimes in just a month or two out father calls them home, I like to think some souls up there bear not one sinful scar. I love to think of heaven as a place where children are