The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has opened an investigation into the derailment of a Bowmans Rail freight train last week.
According to a newly-published investigation filing on the ATSB’s website, Bowmans Rail freight train 1501S derailed just after 6am on Friday, July 28, roughly 13 track kilometres north of the Adelaide CBD.
Three wagons derailed, resulting in damage to the train and the track, according to the filing. No injuries were reported.
The investigation is expected to be completed by July 2018.
According to the filing, the train had left Pelican Point, on the coast near the SA-Victoria boarder, and was headed to Bowmans’ intermodal terminal in Balaklava, along the ARTC’s Melbourne-Crystal Brook corridor.
“Pelican Point, on the coast near the SA-Victoria boarder”
I regret there is a minor error in this excellent article.
Pelican Point is on the shore of the Port River Estuary just south of the terminals at Port Adelaide’s Outer Harbour.
Pelican Point is also the site of a large Gas Turbine Electricity Power Station.
http://www.gdfsuezau.com/about-us/asset/Pelican-Point-Power-Station
Obviously the Victorians aren’t satisfied with pinching just Serviceton.
Hi Reece
A not very well known bit of history.
“The Serviceton Railway Station was begun in 1887 as a junction station between the Serviceton railway line of Victoria and the Adelaide-Wolseley railway line of South Australia.
The interstate border between South Australia and Victoria was legally delineated to be on the 141st meridian east but, owing to a surveying error, border markers were placed 3.6 km west of the meridian. Victoria finally succeeded in having the erroneously surveyed border declared to be the legal border in 1913, and therefore Serviceton is now fully within Victoria.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serviceton,_Victoria