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He said that no steam train 13)....has/had passed...(pass) through that station for years, and that thelast one 14).....had crashed...(crash), killing everyone on board.

I am just wondering if instead of had crashed crashed would be ok as the last one refers to a specific train as in the expression the last time I went to Paris. I know past perfect is better as it happened a long timr before the verb in past simple said but....

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It should be "had crashed" because it's reported speech. The speech reported is in past tense ("He said"), so what he said has to be in past perfect tense.
See:
EF.edu tense changes in reported speech

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