*** TLB SPOILERS** ------- The Realities of the Train Crash

CyberCat

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Okay, the train wreck even though it's rather minor, is undoubtably the most important part of Last Battle....

However... I'm rather frustrated at lack of details. If a train was about to collide head on with another, I think I would have remembered getting hit, impaled, etc...

But on another point.... what killed them exactly? I mean.... how could Peter and Edmund died? As well as Lucy, Eustance, Jill, etc the rest in the train?

Since I'm not British, I have no idea how authorities in the 1940's could have cleared the wreckage- how would families of the victims been notified?
 
This is a link to a description of a US train crash in 1950.
http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/LIRRcrash.html
78 people were killed. This would have been around the same time as the train wreck in TLB, so allowing for the differences in conditions between the US and Great Britain, it might have been a similar scene from our point of view, in the Shadow Lands.

I always took great comfort in the idea that the Pevensies didn't even know what killed them and did not remember the pain and horror of the crash.

As for notifying their families: I imagine as news spreads of a train crash, anyone with relatives who might have been traveling by train that day would try to find out if their relatives were involved.
 
:eek: Man! I just read the whole article! I didn't even know that train crash actually happened! :(

I guess I have what info I need.... now I have a picture in my head on how the Pevensie's and the others died.... now I'm glad they didn't feel a thing, except I think Edmund recalling his sore knee felt better, and all of them remembered feeling a sudden jar and feeling light....

They're all safe in Aslan's country- save Susan :( for now at least... and thank goodness I'm heading there too in the very end...
 
I think Susan made it there, too, one way or another. I am sure losing her family like that was a big shock, and maybe it caused her to re-evaluate her priorities. If anything it was a weakness which made her heart fly after silly things, and you would realize very quickly what is really important in life if you suddenly lost everyone you loved.

I like that the pains they may have been feeling were immediately swept away ... especially think about Diggory and Polly, because they must have been getting pretty elderly by then, and just **snap!** any aches and pains they'd felt were gone forever.
 
Good points ink!

Peter and Edmund were standing right on the platform at the train station so if the cars derailed as suggested they could have easily been hit by it very quickly. I loved the way all of that was written when Aslan had to explain everything to them.

One would hope that Susan would have turned her life around. I loved that part of the ending because it doesn't tell the whole story, but leaves us with hope. Aslan doesn't tell us everyone elses' story, but in this case we all have the opportunity to contemplate on our own and rethink what we need to.
 
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