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110 years since picnic train tragedy

April Shepherd

ON New Year’s Day 1915, more than a thousand Broken Hill locals boarded a passenger train with plans to spend the day picnicking in Silverton, none the wiser the day would go down in history as the only enemy attack on Australian soil throughout World War I. The New Year’s Day picnic was a key […]

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