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Granville Rail Disaster, image, Blue Mountains City Library, Local Studies…

- - - - Cutting cost was his role
      - Retired April 1976, in the face of bitter criticism
  - - - Despite being proven innocent, Edward Olencewicz received several death threats and accusations that he caused the accident.
  - - - They were given enough staff to maintain status quo.
        
        Second request for more staff was rejected
- - - - Instead of taking the locomotive out of action while it was fixed, it was kept in service for another 50,000km.
    - - In 1985, Weir's boss Farquhar was sensationally jailed for four-and-a-half years for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in a 1977 court hearing involving then Australian Rugby League boss Kevin Humphreys.
        
        Farquhar was found to have pressured a subordinate magistrate to dismiss the charges against Humphreys, who had dug himself into a hole through gambling debts and allegedly misappropriated NSW rugby league funds
      - Weir's report briefly mentioned the wheel in question.
        
        Allegations of the coroner having his career threatened unless he stayed silent
        
        The information he did release resulted in the loss of his job. He was demoted however his wages stayed the same so that he wouldn't say anything.
      - Tom Weir was "harassed" by his government bosses to stay silent about the wheel