Tangiwai book cover

Remembering Tangiwai
The Tangiwai disaster has been explored in several books, including Geoff Conly and Graham Stewart's Tragedy on the track. Its cover featured this dramatic (but rather inaccurate) painting by the Australian artist Phil Belbin, which originally appeared on the cover of the Reader's Digest magazine.

The tragedy has also inspired at least three publications aimed at children or young adults, folk songs, such as John Archer’s 'Pillows of the dead', a sensationalist television documentary – The truth about Tangiwai (2002) – and a handful of novels, including Anne Marie Nicholson's romantic thriller Weeping waters (2006).