By JOHN TAYLOR OAM, Myrtleford and District Historical Society Inc.
THE morning train from Bright to Wangaratta left the Myrtleford Railway Station on May 16, 1952 with no reason to suspect what would lie ahead on a bend beyond the Barwidgee Creek railway bridge one mile from town.
The accumulated lack of wartime maintenance and a shortage of material, which stretched into the 1950s, caused speed...
