This is my writing about a historical event I have rewritten or retell what happen why it happen and how it had occur and how it had effected some people.

Tangiwai Disaster

10:21 a disaster occurred on Christmas eve sending people overboard when a bridge collapsed after a mudflow had to happen

At 3pm the train took to rails over the time they had no clue of what was happening on the outside. By 8pm the Mt Ruapehu crater lake walls collapse sending a mudflow into whangaehu river, and at 10:15 the wall of water that contains 2 million cubes liters that reach the Tangiwai bridge and smashed it apart.

The Train crashed after it  travelled back to Auckland from Wellington.

As the first six carriages derailed into the river,and killing 151 people.

It was forcing the water to head downstream and also pick up all the boulders and sand as it travelled down stream, it smashed right into the Whangaehu bridge and swept away the railway track.  The lahar also know as a volcanic mudflow from Crater's Lake was 8 metres higher than it’s usual,

At Whangaehu River it was sent flooded when these carriages went flying down the river with plenty of people trying to help they couldn’t save those that washed away. Volunteers from around the country came to help with the recovering of all the survivors and people who were on the train, back in 1953 there was no national rescue around, Members of the New Zealand Forest Service, Ministry of Works, police, navy personnel, groups of farmers and other local volunteers worked throughout the night and day. The Waiouru Military Camp provided much-needed manpower as well as transport and shelter for survivors and those involved in the rescue mission.

This tragedy was unpredictable and very blinding to those traveling in this train. Even with the police still investigating what had happen on this day. And  to this day people still wondered why this had happened.