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Storms lash NSW North Coast, bringing down trees and stopping the XPT
Severe storms have left a trail of damage, felling trees from the Clarence Valley to the Queensland border and causing a 200-litre diesel spill from a damaged XPT train.
Key points:
- Storms with wind gusts of almost 80 km/h swept across Northern NSW
- An XPT train hit storm debris, which ruptured its fuel tank, spilling 200L of diesel
- A woman was trapped in her car for more than two hours when a tree fell on it at Lawrence
The line of storms hit the region late on Tuesday, bringing wind gusts of almost 80km/h.
The winds brought trees down across parts of the Clarence Valley, including on the train line at Warragai Creek, 20 kilometres north of Grafton.
Superintendent Luke Unsworth from NSW Fire and Rescue said an XPT passenger train hit the…
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