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Premium Content Subscriber only With tree branches rupturing a diesel fuel tank and air lines of the northbound XPT last night, local firefighters say the incident could ve ended up a lot worse for the 21 passengers and staff on-board. A storm created havoc north of Grafton on Tuesday night, and the XPT passenger train hit trees that had fallen across the track. Grafton Fire and Rescue 306 station captain Garry Reardon said two tankers, including Hazmat, as well as Trenayr Rural Fire Service attended the scene at Warragai Creek. The road to the train was about 1km off the Summerland Way, and it wasn t a bad surface, but the locomotive was another 800m further up the track, which meant we had to walk the full length to get to it, he said. ....
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