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"I never saw Mark have an enemy," says his best friend Jason Wann. He was 17 and charming, good at school, good at sport. Within hours, the news had spread around town - the body was that of Mark Haines, a popular local Aboriginal teenager. (For the best viewing experience on mobile devices watch the 360 video on YouTube.)

"I just did feel that there was something wrong." "That was probably my second or third body that I had seen and it stuck in my head how unusual it was," Glenn says, now talking publicly about the case for the first time. What he would see on that morning has stayed with him for three decades. "I thought to myself, 'well, I'd better go just in case the person is still alive'," he says. Glenn phoned the police, then got on his motorbike to ride to the scene, about 4 kilometres from the station. Glenn knows what happens to a human body when it's hit by more than 300 tonnes of metal travelling at speed: "It really does make a mess of you."

He had just passed over a body on the tracks. It was the driver of a freight train which Glenn had earlier shunted. The stationmaster was catching up on book work and preparing to finish his shift when a call came in about 6.05am. Through the early humid dawn, trains came and went through Tamworth station.

Mark Haines was out on the town in Tamworth as Glenn Bryant started his overnight shift as stationmaster at West Tamworth Station at 11pm on January 15, 1988.Īs the clubs and pubs fell silent, and Mark and his girlfriend Tanya White walked home together, the rattling sounds of Glenn at work shunting trains echoed across the sleeping regional New South Wales town. Former Tamworth stationmaster Glenn Bryant will never forget the day he saw Mark Haines dead on the tracks.