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One Last Ride - The Ghost Train Fire

July 23, 2026 • Belinda Brady • Season 1 • Episode 50

0:00 | 28:18

It's a cold winter's night in 1979 when John Godson and his two young sons, Damien and Craig, decide to take one last ride on Sydney's Luna Park's famous Ghost Train before heading home. Nearby, friends Richard, Michael, Jonathan, Seamus, all 13 years old, and 12 year old Jason make the same decision.

Only one of them would make it out alive.

What happened on that June night not only killed seven people, and in one case, wiped out a woman's entire family, it exposed a seedy underbelly of corruption and crime and left a mourning country demanding answers....ones we are still waiting for today. A truly infuriating and heartbreaking case.

Join Belinda over a coffee or two as she dives into the Ghost Train Fire and explores why many of us don't think it was a simple accident.

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