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===Federation to present day=== The [[Old Bunbury railway station]] served as the terminal for the [[Transwa Australind|Australind]] passenger train between [[Perth railway station|Perth]], transporting its first passengers on 24 November 1947.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article95624863 |title=The Australind - Fast Day Train to Bunbury |website=[[Kalgoorlie Miner]] |date=26 November 1947 |page=1 |access-date=10 July 2014}}</ref> The last train to use the station departed on 28 May 1985 with a [[Bunbury railway station|new station]] opening at [[East Bunbury, Western Australia|East Bunbury]], {{convert|4|km|mi|0}} to the south-east the following day.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130409105231/http://bunburyhistoricalsociety.com.au/files/2013/04/BUNBURY-TIME-LINE.pdf Time-line of Key Dates in Bunbury's History] Bunbury Historical Society</ref><ref>"Western Australia" ''[[Railway Digest]]'' August 1985 page 247</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.planning.wa.gov.au/dop_pub_pdf/GBS4.3.pdf |title=Greater Bunbury Strategy |access-date=19 February 2015 |publisher=Government of Western Australia |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924074452/http://www.planning.wa.gov.au/dop_pub_pdf/GBS4.3.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The railway land was then sold and Blair Street realigned. The [[Bunbury woodchip bombing]] in 1976 saw the bombing of Bunbury's export port terminal by environmental activists, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry in the South West. Two of the three bombs planted failed to explode and the resulting damage to the port was estimated at only $300,000 ({{inflation|AU|300000|1976|fmt=eq|r=-6}}), although shrapnel broke windows in a nearby housing estate and the blast was heard up to {{convert|20|km|mi}} away. There were no injuries although a security guard was held at gunpoint by the bombers.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://salusjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ODonnell_Ewart_Salus_Journal_Volume_5_Number_1_2017_pp_27-47.pdf|title=Reassessing the Bunbury Bombing: Juxtaposition of Political and Media Narratives|journal=Salus|volume=5|number=1|year=2017|pages=27β47|first1=Kate|last1=O'Donnell|first2=Jacqui|last2=Ewart}}</ref>
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