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December 29th, 2011 
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Video: Stuart Highway opens after floods
(7pm TV News NT)
The Stuart Highway has reopened at the Edith River crossing after the bridge was damaged during ex-tropical cyclone Grant.
Flash flooding after ex-tropical cyclone Grant caused a train to derail there on Tuesday.
The derailment wiped out a large section of the highway and damaged the low-level and high-level bridges at the river.
It has disrupted freight services and hundreds of travellers have been stranded in Katherine.
Cars have been stranded for days, waiting for the bridge to reopen after it was flooded.
It is the only way to get from Darwin to Katherine, and the rest of Australia.
Workers have been busy constructing a temporary single lane so that traffic can finally get through.
More than 100 cars and trucks queued at a roadblock near the Edith River on Thursday to get over the bridge.
Earlier, Infrastructure Department spokesman Gordon Atkinson said crews have been working non-stop to prepare the road for traffic.
“We have got most of the bulk earthworks in place,” he said.
“We have just got to finalise some earthworks, clean a bit more dirt and debris off the road and put appropriate traffic management in place.
“We don’t have any issues with traffic once we have got it open.”
Trucks, bulldozers, front-end loaders and graders have been used to work on the highway.
Mr Atkinson said it has been a huge repair job.
“In the end, we will have carted out of Katherine in the order of 1,000 cubic metres of gravel to put in place.”
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