Tim The Yowie Man recalls the day Mick Jagger was shot in the hand at Captains Flat

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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