Spyke wrote the following in:




"According to sources at the crash site the incident was caused by
a broken rail, and a member of the rail staff who saw the rail
said it was "rusted" before it fractured."

Out of curiosity (and I accept there may be a perfectly good
answer to this), how can you tell a rail is rusted just by looking
at it? Being steel there's always going to be a fair bit of
corrosion on the outside, with only the tops being polished clean
by passing trains.

That's what I was wondering. It sounds a bit like someone saying "the
road was rough and covered in some sort of tarmac like material priar
to the accident".

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