QR tilt train crash cuts main line going north

<p>Investigators are scrutinising Queensland’s main north rail line near Bundaberg to discover why high-speed passenger tilt train derailed, injuring about 100 people, just before midnight yesterday (Monday, November 15).</p> <p>Seven of the nine carriages from Queensland Rail’s (QR) Cairns tilt train derailed at 11.55 pm between Bajool and Berajondo, about 50 km north of Bundaberg.</p> <p>About 12 people are reported to have suffered serious injuries in the incident, QR said.</p> <p>The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and QR investigators have yet to determine what caused the derailment or at what speed the train was travelling when it left the track.</p> <p>However, QR has confirmed that the accident occurred on a 150 km&#47h-rated section of the rail track.</p> <p>QR’s chief executive, Bob Scheuber, told the ABC this morning that the train was on a good quality section of track, which had heavy-duty rail and concrete sleepers.</p> <p>QR said it has re-routed other freight and passenger rail services while it clears the derailed carriages and repairs damage to the track and ballast.</p> <p>It is not known when the track will reopen.</p> <br />