Two coaches of a Sydney-bound interstate passenger train derailed between the Southern Cross and North Melbourne stations on 11 July, but nobody was hurt. The carriages reportedly remained upright but...
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Commuters using Melbourne's Cranbourne, Frankston, Pakenham and Sandringham lines faced serious service delays following a fire near Richmond station, and some electric tram routes were affected too....
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A 71-year-old Melbourne truck driver has been charged with 44 offences after crashing through level crossing booms, derailing a commuter train and killing a passenger. Fourteen others were injured. He...
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City officials at Perth, Western Australia, studying cctv footage of a bizarre escalator accident at the Esplanade station, concluded it was caused by people ‘unfamiliar with public transport'. It...
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Australia's ABC News reports that 700 passengers were evacuated from a peak-hour Sydney commuter train after a coach derailed near Edgecliff. Sydney Trains CEO Howard Collins was quoted saying a piece...
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On 31 January 2013, a six-coach Brisbane suburban electric multiple-unit train mounted the concrete stop block at a Cleveland dead-end and smashed into the recently refurbished station building. Ten...
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On 11 June, three train services in Australia's Melbourne were shut down, causing major delays that affected an estimated 50,000 commuters in the morning peak, after thieves stole copper cables...
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At 09:38 on 31 January 2013, a six-coach Queensland Rail (QR) commuter train ran through a dead-end road at Cleveland station, overran the buffers and demolished part of the recently refurbished...
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Recurrent power problems at the end of January on Brisbane's Cleveland commuter line in Australia's Queensland may have had something to with a strange derailment in the new terminal station. The...
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From Bruno Martin, 25 January:
'After a prolonged dry spell and heatwave, now the entire east coast of Queensland is being lashed by torrential rain from ex-tropical cyclone ‘Oswald' that formed over...
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