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Remembering the fatal train derailment that devastated Finch Hatton 50 years ago

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It’s a September night in 1971, and a group of men are sitting near a dry creek bed playing cards by lamp light.

Beside them is the wreckage of a locomotive, upturned and covered in the sugar cane bins it was hauling when it derailed from the bridge above.

As the three mates played poker, one…



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