Surgeons told The Rolling Stones frontman he may never play guitar again, but thankfully he managed to make a full recovery.
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00:00 Although it only operated for around 30 years,
00:03 the Captain's Flat Branch Railway line,
00:05 which ran from the outskirts of Bungendore
00:08 to the former mining town,
00:09 is mainly remembered for two major events.
00:14 One of these occurred during construction of the line
00:16 and the other in 1969,
00:18 around a year after it was officially closed.
00:22 The first was the botched bombing of a bridge
00:24 during construction in 1939,
00:26 which was to carry the line across the Molonglo River
00:29 near Foxlow Station.
00:31 In the middle of the night, using jellignite,
00:33 unknown perpetrators unsuccessfully attempted
00:37 to blow up one of the pylons.
00:39 The second event occurred in 1969
00:42 during filming of Tony Richardson's Ned Kelly film
00:45 starring Mick Jagger.
00:48 While filming in a nearby railway cutting,
00:50 a pistol loaded with blanks backfired,
00:53 injuring Jagger's right hand.
00:55 These never-before-published photos,
00:57 taken by photographer Keith Pardee,
00:59 show the extent of Jagger's injury.
01:03 The Rolling Stones frontman was rushed to hospital
01:05 and despite a surgeon in Canberra
01:07 warning he may never play guitar again,
01:10 he eventually recovered,
01:12 which is more than can be said for the film.
01:14 Jagger disowned the film before its premiere,
01:17 claiming he only accepted the role
01:20 because he had nothing else to do.
01:23 Not surprisingly, the film didn't do very well
01:26 at the box office.
01:28 Such is life.
01:31 (music fades)
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