The Townsville to Mount Isa rail line remains closed after a train carrying mineral products derailed on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
One locomotive was on its side and another two left the track but remained upright, Queensland Rail (QR) said.<\/p>\n
The derailment happened at Warrigal between the towns of Pentland and Torrens Creek about 1pm on Friday.<\/p>\n
QR head of regional Scott Cornish said freight and passenger services had stopped over the weekend, with further track assessments to be done.<\/p>\n
“Emergency services arrived onsite soon after. Thankfully no injuries were reported,” Mr Cornish said.<\/p>\n
The service, operated by Qube Holdings, was carrying zinc and copper from Mount Isa.<\/p>\n
One wagon was also derailed but remained upright.<\/p>\n
State Emergency Service volunteers were called in case of a major fuel spill, however this was not an issue, police said.<\/p>\n
Bus service running<\/p>\n
Mr Cornish said the weekend passenger services on the Inlander were replaced by a bus.<\/p>\n
“Queensland Rail will work with the third-party operator to confirm a recovery plan once inspections are completed,” he said.<\/p>\n
In a statement Qube Holdings said it was fortunate the train crew was uninjured.<\/p>\n
“Recovery efforts are continuing at the site, and we are naturally working with relevant agencies to support investigations into the cause of the incident,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Townsville to Mount Isa rail line remains closed after a train carrying mineral products derailed on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,128926,185608,185600,185604,185607,63270,44,185605,185601,185602,128160,106857,185603,185606],"class_list":["post-331875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-homestead","tag-inlander","tag-inlander-passenger-train","tag-locomotive-derailment","tag-mineral-concentrate","tag-mount-isa","tag-news","tag-pentland","tag-qube-holdings","tag-queensland-rail","tag-railway","tag-train","tag-train-derailment","tag-warrigal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}