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Derailment at Dumaresq

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Friday 15 October 1926, The Brisbane Courier

OFF THE LINE.

GOODS WAGGONS AT DUMARESQ.

MAIL TRAIN DELAYED.

Owing to the derailment of four goods waggons at Dumaresq, about six miles north of Armidale, the Sydney to Brisbane mail train arrived at Central Station at 12.10 o’clock this morning-five and a half hours late. Passenger stated that amongst the waggons derailed was a gasoline tank, and while trying to lift it one of the cranes broke down.

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