A simple device known as a 'health card', no bigger than a box of CDs, which bolts on to a wagon and uses algorithms to give indications of wagon and track conditions, has been developed within the...
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At least three people were hurt seriously when a passenger train ran into the back of a freight at Craigieburn in the north of Melbourne. Altogether eight injured passengers were taken to hospital,...
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A tourist train carrying 200 passengers on the scenic Kuranda line in Australia's Queensland derailed following a serious mudslide near Redlynch, 16km from its starting point at Cairns. Five people,...
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At about 01:40 0n 2 February, a Pacific National train derailed between Wycarbah and Warren, about 40km from Rockhampton in the Blackwater coal system. The incident was expected to delay trains in...
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The Australian Rail Industry Safety and Standards Board (RISSB) has published a security handbook providing non-prescriptive guidance on the management of security risks in a rail environment (both...
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The Council of Australian state governments has agreed to create a national safety regulatory system and to have the Australian Transport Safety Bureau act as the preferred investigator of rail...
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Investigations into a November 2008 derailment has revealed the much of the A$1.4 billion, newly built Alice Springs-Darwin section of the AustralAsia Adelaide-Darwin line is 'misaligned'. The...
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On 10 March, three locomotives and several wagons filled with coal derailed when a train collided with stationary rolling stock 140km south-east of Mackay in Queensland's Coppabella Yard, the main...
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Rail services in the Blackwater coal system in central Queensland were disrupted for four days following the 22 April collision of two coal trains at Grantleigh, about 150km west of Rockhampton.
The...
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Bruno Martin reports:
On 23 April, two coal trains collided in Central Queensland.
Rockhampton Police said no one was injured but the wreckage was significant and could take days to clear. The...
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