Watch timelapse at Nelia near where train derailed

Derek Barry
Updated April 15 2019 - 12:01pm, first published February 10 2019 - 12:00pm

Startling footage has emerged from near the site of the freight train derailment at Nelia showing how quickly the flood waters inundated the Townsville-Mount Isa rail line.

Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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