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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,...

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"We had three gazebos and the only reason they didn't fly away was because we were holding onto them," he said. "They all were all pegged down properly with ropes and pegs but the wind just lifted them straight out of the ground. "At one stage one of the gazebos had lifted straight up off the ground about 1m in the air and we had to jump up and grab it." Mr Nielson said the worst of the storm only lasted about 10 minutes, but the rain was so heavy he could hardly see a few metres in front of him.