Granville train disaster: NSW Government to apologise to victims' families 40 years on

Almost 40 years after Australia's worst train disaster, the New South Wales Government says it will apologise to the "families left with unimaginable grief" as a result of the tragedy.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News in the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of the Granville train disaster on January 18, Transport Minister Andrew Constance said: "Obviously everyone's deeply sorry for what has occurred."

"Over the years, people have had to cope with what was one of the most horrific tragedies in the nation's history."

Eighty-three people died and another 213 were injured when a commuter train derailed near Granville railway station and a bridge collapsed onto the carriages in 1977.

At the time, then-New South Wales premier, the late Neville Wran, described the state of the railway system as "ramshackle".

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