After the body of an Aboriginal teenager was found on the train tracks rumours swirled around a regional town about how he may have ended up there.

It was the early morning of January 16, 1988 when Gomeroi teenager Mark Haines was found dead on the tracks outside Tamworth in NSW.

Police found a stolen white Torana next to the rail line, which appeared to have crashed and rolled.

Mr Haines' family never believed the findings of an initial police investigation, which ruled the 17-year-old had lain on the tracks either deliberately or in a dazed state after a car crash.

A coroner handed down an open finding after an inquest in 1988 and 1989.

Mr Haines' family, led by his uncle Don Craigie, has campaigned for decades to re-examine the circumstances of his death, and a fresh inquest began

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