This video about the Tangiwai disaster was created by the Auckland War Memorial Museum in 2009 and plays in the museum’s Volcanoes gallery. It features an explanation of the causes of the lahar, a reconstruction of the bridge collapse, historic footage and eyewitness accounts.
'Tangiwai mini documentary', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/tangiwai-mini-documentary, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 17-Jun-2014
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Posted: 27 Apr 2020
My son is doing a school project, very graphic doco I'm a visual learner so I probably would have forgotten amount of carriages and fatalities but after seeing it! Boy that's going to stick in my memory for a long time
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